Posted on 02/02/2006 11:32:04 AM PST by hipaatwo
All those reporters seem to have forgotten Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson lately, maybe they realize they don't want to be called to testify.
Therein lies the real rub.
Good point, I think they're all in hiding, hoping that if they stay away from the story for awhile they might be forgotten. I'm sure there are a slew of MSM names who are quaking and shaking and spilling their Chardonnay, hoping they will not be subpoenaed and required to make a choice between testifying and going to jail. Every reporter who touched this story should be grilled and required to barf up all sources. After all, this is a matter of grave national security as leading Demagogues and MSM babbling heads assured us so many times.........
Okay, so who is the judge in this case ?
If it is demonstrated that Fitzgerald already knew that no crime was committed, how could his investigation be legal?
I mean, that's like the police pulling you in before a grand jury to find out who robbed your neighbor's house, when no robbery had actually taken place, and then charging you with lying about the last time you visited your neighbor.
Or like the old example, interrogating you about when you stopped beating your wife.
perjury shmerjury. Lying to investigators is only bad if Clinton does it.
I think I'm being obtuse, especially for someone who followed this fairly closely :)
As natural as that progression of thought should have been when Fitzgerald first skirted the issue of Plames status, I guess I had never quite thought of it from the angle that Libby didn't know.
You're not being obtuse. At this point, it's entirely understandable if we are all confused -- all, that is, except for the attorneys among us.
At this point, I have to question whether or not there ever was a genuine investigation. More and more, I think the charges against Libby are a malicious prosecution, if not for political reasons than to cover the fact that Fitzgerald never conducted the investigation he was employed to conduct.
His legal staff anticipated all of these issues. It is a very narrow prosecution. As long as it remains narrow, and he defends how narrow it is, Libby's attorneys will have trouble.
The instructions to the jury will not involve anything about the underlying investigations. They will focus strictly on whether or not all statements by Libby to the GJ were accurate. Why the investigation is being conducted will be of no interest to a jury.
The only time that question could have merit is with a judge. If this goes to trial, and entirely different defense will be necessary.
How did you determine Libby lied?
IF Libby committed perjury he will have to face the legal consequences (and he should). Whatever the story of the Libby's testimony turns out to be, that will not change the fact that this is a sham investigation driven by a ludicrous effort by MSM reporters and Demagogues to concoct a case against the administration that never should have been taken seriously in the first place (Joe Wilson's asinine and incoherent recitations of nonsense, etc.).
Libby is responsible for any legal consequences he may have incurred IF he gave any untruthful testimony, but that should not distract from the far more important issue: the shameless charlatans who concocted and sustained the whole ludicrous "Niger uranium" story in the media.
It will be a D.C. jury.
Libby is a Republican.
In other words, his best shot is to get the case thrown out...before it goes to trial.
Which is beginning to look like a cinch...
One suspects that the worst thing that could happen to Fitzgerald's career would be for this case to go to trial.
He ought to be brought up on charges for defrauding the American people out of $2 million.
This is disgusting!
Good analysis and questions by Levin.
Good questions, Carolyn. Wish I knew the answer.
Didn't see it ... SORRY
I'm a morning EST (NY) viewer
GOOD POST
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