Posted on 01/23/2007 5:30:02 AM PST by IrishMike
Today the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, begins in federal court in Washington. The opening arguments follow a week of wrangling over seating a jury, a fight that went on significantly longer than either prosecution, defense, or judge estimated. And nearly every scuffle in the courtroom, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and chief defense lawyer Ted Wells argued over each prospective juror’s possible bias, served to emphasize the intensely political nature of the case. Does this potential juror believe Cheney is a liar? Does that one think the Bush administration can’t be trusted? What do they think about the case for going to war in Iraq? As the selection process went on, it became clear that the biggest difference in the prosecution and defense approaches to the case can be summed up in this question: Does the most impassioned political argument of the day — the war — lie at the periphery of the case, as Fitzgerald contends, or at its heart, as Libby argues? By the end of voir dire, it was hard to deny that Libby’s argument is the more persuasive. No matter how much the prosecutor tries to frame the case as a simple question of lying under oath, this case is about the war, about people’s feelings about the war, and about the administration’s credibility over the war.
But it will be decided by a group of people for whom the war, and politics, is not a matter of enormous concern. Jury selection served to highlight just how many people there are in the District of Columbia who aren’t terribly interested in what goes on in the White House, the Pentagon, and Congress.
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A sham.
I place this case and the Duke rape case in the same category. I place Fitzgerald and Nifong in the same category.
We have spent millions of dollars on this Plame witch hunt, Fishing expedition and it has come down to some phony charges against a man who had nothing to do with the case.
Fitzgerald should be disbarred and charged with defrauding the government of millions of dollars.
This whole case has been bovine excrement from start to finish.
I place this case and the Duke rape case in the same category. I place Fitzgerald and Nifong in the same category.
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And I would add Earl and the witch hunt of Tom Delay.
Get Bush!
Fitz is the Mike Nifong of federal prosecutors.
Get Bush!
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That's it right there. Can't impeach Bush or bring up Cheney on any charges...so go after a lower level member of the administration instead. All the tax dollars being wasted on this sham....not to mention a good name besmirched.
"This whole case has been bovine excrement from start to finish."
Exactly, buffalo chips up to our asses.
I predict that Libby will be exonerated. We have a wonderful legal system, but unfortunately it is not perfect. A prosecutor will no controls can do much damage with unlimited funds.
I have only one thing to add to your excellent summary of this travesty.
Is Joe Wilson going to testify?
I is a farce, but Libby is getting paid back for defending the odious Marc Rich!! How do lawyers sleep at night?
Yes: I didnt add Earl,but he is right in there with the other two.
Also, will it be brought up that no crime was committed, the point Fitzgerald was tasked to determine?
Questions Abound in Libby Trial
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012307/content/cutting_edge_2.guest.html
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