Posted on 02/27/2006 10:54:24 AM PST by frankjr
When all is said and done, I really think Libby's high powered lawyers will make Fitz look like the jerk he is.
Depends on whether he purposely lied about it, or he simply didn't remember the earlier conversation with the staffer. Now, if this were the only thing on his plate, that defense would not be very believable. But when you factor in all of the other issues clamoring for his time simultaneously, it might be possible.
The indictment is only that he failed to divulge his classified knowledge to the Fitz circus. Again, unless they first proved to him that they were cleared to hear specific classifed information from him, he was quite right in not divulging it to them. Had he done so, he would have faced charges of improperly divulging classified information.
minor point - he was still obliged to keep his classifed knowledge confidential. However, he was free to then discuss whatever 'public knowledge' there is so long as he in no way implies he also knows it in a classifed way. Nor, if "public knowledge" was somehow wrong, could he indicate he knew it to be wrong.
Black Jack: and your evidence that Libby lied is ... ??
If that were the case, why didn't Fitzidiot charge him with leaking the information? You got nuttin' here.
minor point - he was still obliged to keep his classifed knowledge confidential. However, he was free to then discuss whatever 'public knowledge' there is so long as he in no way implies he also knows it in a classifed way. Nor, if "public knowledge" was somehow wrong, could he indicate he knew it to be wrong.
Jack Black: and your evidence that Libby lied is ... ??
If that were the case, why didn't Fitzidiot charge him with leaking the information? You got nuttin' here.
That's not my recollection as this story has unfolded. Woodward has said it was the unnamed "non White House" source who told him. Timmy has been, in my view, evasive. Others, such as Mrs. Greenspan, have said "everyone knew". Few have said that Libby was the one and only "source".
big bttt
"....nor exculpatory as to Mr. Libby"...According to who? The Kangaroo Court prosecutor?
No, Fitz will bail out and announce there is really nothing there at all on any level, before he lets anyone make him look like a jerk/
great line, I gotta use it sometime. "With all the smoke in here, I can barely see the mirrors". I am going to assume it was of "downdraft" coinage, and think you a genius.
Let's hope Oprah joins the two of them on that boat someday. Don't worry---someone will think of something to
sue her over---maybe James Frey can sue her for outing HIM.
I have hated this guy Fitzgerald from DAY ONE---when he made that interminable and insufferably self-important public statement implying the monumental importance of this so called "case". It is hard to believe adults waste all of our times with this crap, which is actually their bread and butter.
" This case gives me heartburn"
----that means it has already gone on too long, with no
resolution that could possibly mean anything or settle any grievances. It has gone past that point that dieters identify as the "sigh"---an involuntary expulsion of breath which tells you you have eaten a little too much, and must eat no more.
Of course, it was supposed to last just precisely long enough for all us "spectators" to pick it up, chat about it, talk about "Scooter" and " Fitz" like they were personal friends of ours, and more than anything, become seduced and mystified by the big-time oh-so-important workings of Justice and Big Government. It has already lived out its life, and however it is "settled" is going to prove to be a crashing bore. This is about nothing more than political posturing-----milking a hypothetical case against someone at the behest of someone else, in order to create a negative taste in the public mouth for that first someone, and all his associates and colleagues. It may have worked the way they wanted it to, but the public at large has tuned it out long ago, as further proof of the total waste of the political process, and more of their tax dollars squandered for a very dubious entertainment which is not entertaining at all.
Bruce Willis lashed out at Oprah over Frey - "Hey Oprah -- you had President Clinton on your show. And if [he] didn't lie about a couple of things, I'm going to set myself on fire right now."
Missed Bruce Willis's Oprah challenge---do you know where he did it?
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