That Wascally Wascall
Posted on 01/26/2007 9:27:34 PM PST by woofie
The president's political guru—and counselor Dan Bartlett—have been subpoenaed by Scooter Libby's lawyers. What it means for the most-watched trial in Washington—and who's next on the witness stand.
- White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials—including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and counselor Dan Bartlett-may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby.
Both Rove and Bartlett have already received trial subpoenas from Libby’s defense lawyers, according to lawyers close to the case who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive matters. While that is no guarantee they will be called, the odds increased this week after Libby’s lawyer, Ted Wells, laid out a defense resting on the idea that his client, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, had been made a “scapegoat” to protect Rove. Cheney is expected to provide the most crucial testimony to back up Wells’s assertion, one of the lawyers close to the case said. The vice president personally penned an October 2003 note in which he wrote, “Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the other.” The note, read aloud in court by Wells, implied that Libby was the one being sacrificed in an effort to clear Rove of any role in leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joe Wilson. “Wow, for all the talk about this being a White House that prides itself on loyalty and discipline, you’re not seeing much of it,” the lawyer said.
Libby is charged with lying about when and from whom he learned about Plame during the spring and early summer of 2003, a time when the White House was working to discredit Wilson. (Blah Blah Blah)
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That Wascally Wascall
Would Karl Rove go down bastard or just bastard by FREEPERS LOL!
Case closed
What does this mean?
Are you a native English speaker?
Huh?
I think her posts are a puzzle to be solved, not a reply.
Let me know when you have something....
Given how narrowly the judge has interpreted relevance in this trial does it even matter that Rove is called?
Im still working on the turtle stuff from the Clinton days
can you say more?
-Would Karl Rove go down bastard or just bastard by FREEPERS LOL!-
No...Karl Rove go upsideways bastard and/or good bastard you Freepers now.
I hope this clears thing up for you...
( We Gibberite Bastards Know Good Lingo )
Well...Clearly the defense strategy is to open the trial up to alternate theories and the geopolitcal and political subtext of the Plame Affair. The Judge isn't having any of it. He is limiting the testimony to events directly related to Libby,Miller, Cooper, the FBI and the GJ. If they call Rove and Rove cannot respond to anything other than his testimony before the GJ and responses to the FBI then what point is there in that? I don't see how it helps Libby.
HUH??????
damn, that was the hardest I have laughed here in a while.
Thanks!
Welcome you lingo liker you. Happy Me Bastard you funny me find... Na Ha! Rodo....
Let me see--we are supposed to believe that Libby's lawyers are calling them to provide damaging testimony against Libby?
What kind of bravo sierra is this?
I think this is a variant on the "bushy haired stranger " defense. What you do as a defense attorney is throw up a whole pile of alternative suspects and motives and then portray your client as the hapless victim of a grand unknowable conspiracy of unfathomable complexity and hope the jury throws up it hands being unable to decipher it all.
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