Third Motion of Libby to Compel Discovery [Witness List : Doc 68]

U.S. District Court District of Columbia ^ | March 17, 2006 | Ted Wells for I. Lewis Libby

[Cboldt]

Trying a different method of HTML presentation, which is MUCH easier for me. Some features are not reproduced; e.g., indentation, superscript, italics, underline, bold, etc., but the layout is faithful and the translation looks perfect when viewed as a local file under mozilla and lynx.

However, importing to FR introduces additional HTML (a bunch of </pre> tags) that mix up the presentation and may render it "near-useless". Let me know if the presentation form is bad (in your opinion), and I'll cogitate on alternative methods of translating the PDF files to FR-useful HTML.

If you want the original source from the link, be advised that an account is required to obtain PACER Documents. Once there, all of the documents filed in the case are available. The case number is 1:05-cr-00394

This particular filing has been discussed at length on other threads, so it's presence here is mostly useful for looking up the basis for news reports and opinion pieces.

JustOneMinute: Byron York On The Latest Libby Filings - 03/20/06
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2006/03/byron_york_on_t_1.html

Libby to Fitzgerald: If You Won't Name the CIA Leaker, I Will - 03/20/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599605/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599628/posts

Libby trial could expose feud over lack of WMD - 03/19/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599284/posts

JustOneMinute: Many Are Called - 03/18/06
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2006/03/many_are_called.html

CIA Witness List (Libby) - 03/18/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598865/posts

Libby Trial May Be Embarrassment for Bush - 03/18/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598859/posts

Libby Defense May Seek to Highlight Infighting - 03/18/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598776/posts

[fso301]

I am bumpibg this in order that I might read it later.

[RoseofTexas]

Goodness! My eyes went crossed! Just tell me when Fitzman comes around for the RATS...okay?! Bawahhahaha

[Eagleami]

Excellent. Thanks for your conversion efforts! It's a breath of fresh air not to have to rely on media interpretations and spin.

[Cboldt]

Thanks for your conversion efforts! It's a breath of fresh air not to have to rely on media interpretations and spin.

My pleasure. Certainly agreed on not putting too much excitement or stock in what the media says.

BTW, I think I figured a way to retain the indentation, which makes the reading MUCH easier. Not for this filing, but for future efforts.

[norton]

Thanks.

[Eagleami]

At present, the government has produced less than 12,000 pages of documents to the defense. This is a very small document production for a case that involves such complex issues.

The amount of documents requested is probably more than 1000 times the entire tax code. Nevermind the fact that each has to be reviewed. Yikes.

[Cboldt]

The amount of documents requested is probably more than 1000 times the entire tax code. Nevermind the fact that each has to be reviewed.

Fitz is under a March 24 (tomorrow) deadline to assert privilege, according to the March 10 Order of the Court. He filed the below on Tuesday. I'm fixing to see if Judge Walton has answered.

Fitzgerald Motion re: Clarification of PDB Order - 03/21/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601079/posts

[McGavin999]

OMG, this is beautiful. I'm not a lawyer (and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn either) but to a simple citizen, this document alone blows the lid off things.

Rep. Conyers was involved in this?!

[McGavin999]

Here's something for your Libby Ping List. Spend some time reading it, there are buried gems all over the place in this document.

[arasina]

Impressive piece of work, Cboldt! A suprisingly interesting read, too, for a legal document. :o)

[Cboldt]

Rep. Conyers was involved in this?!

Lots of Congress folk were "involved" in one way or another. You'll note that Libby is arguing that there was contention as to whether or not the leak caused harm, and therefor, one side must have felt that the leak did NOT cause harm. It's material of that nature that he thinks is helpful to his case - "no harmful leak, therefore Plame didn't register on my mind" or something like that.

I think digging into this area is risky to the defense, partially because the leak of Plame -WAS- a big deal (see Congressional involvement), and therefore it is might be thought -MORE- likely that Libby would take an interest in the subject.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599605/posts?page=74#74
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599605/posts?page=78#78

[1rudeboy]

Legal docs are not the same now that most have stopped using Courier 12.

[Cboldt]

Impressive piece of work, Cboldt!

Automated, mostly.
A little bit of manual editing to put in the horizontal lines.

pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk libby-060317-motion.pdf - | \
sed s/"^ ."/\<pre\>/ > libby-060317-motion.htm

[Cboldt]

Legal docs are not the same now that most have stopped using Courier 12.

I noticed that too. It's possible to cause this stuff to render that way on most browsers though.

             This is monospaced, Courier on most browsers.

So much for cheap thrills ^;-) _=:-O

[Howlin]

Scooter ping!

Per McGavin999: Spend some time reading it, there are buried gems all over the place in this document

[Purrcival]

That Conyers had his grubby fingers in the pie is no surprise to me at all. I cringe at seeing his name prefaced by "The Honorable".

[MNbelle]

I also would like to express my appreciation for you efforts in transferring from PDF as I am unable to obtain PDF files. This was most interesting and certainly gave me a view as to where the defense is going with their case.

Thanks again for posting this.

[eyespysomething]

bump to read print out

[investigateworld]

This case is taking on the characteristics of an old POGO cartoon, "He's under suspicion"
"Suspicion of what"
"Suspicion of being suspect".