[oceanview]

Libby is charged with simple perjury and lying to the FBI. he has a DC jury demographically likely to convict any member of a republican administration. his case is not going down the toilet, given those realities.

[tobyhill]

I think it is and Fitzgerald is giving the old college try in getting Libby to plea guilty to at least one count by leaking all this "incriminating evidence" because if Libby's lawyers get Wilson and/or Plame on the stand and they get caught in the perjury trap then Plame's book deal goes down the toilet and people are going to question why Fitzgerald wasn't investigating Wilson/Plame more.