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I think what it might basically boil down to is something like this:

If Fitz asked Libby in front of the GJ, and FBI agents also asked him:

did you eat oatmeal on June 7th?

And, if Fitz had some testimony from his housekeeper and a Libby cohort who spoke to him while he was eating oatmeal that he had it on June 6th, not June 7th, but Libby said he had it on the 7th, Fitzie would charge Libby with lying under oath and 3 or 4 other counts of obstructing justice.

Am I close to the lilliputian prosecutorial character of Fitzie?

Am I close to the lilliputian prosecutorial character of Fitzie? No, its more serious than that, but not by much. Scooter Libby told the grand jury he had no idea who Valerie Plame was until Tim Russert brought her up to him on the 10th. Ari just testified that Scooter Libby, on the seventh, three days before the Russert Conversation, that Scooter told him about Valerie Plame by name, and even listed the department of the CIA she worked in. That is not an error in memory. Libby lied. He didn't break the law by outing her. He lied to the grand jury. There is no way you can be telling Ari about Valerie Plame and her department in the CIA and forget about it, then "remember" that Tim Russert told you about it 3 days later. He lied. Same thing Clinton did. I will be intellectually honest here and say that he needs to be convicted on this. If the president wants to pardon him fine, but Libby lied about a crucial fact in this non-case when he was under oath. It was wrong. Fitzgerald could have decided not to prosecute, but what kind of message does that send? He was investigating if a crime took place, and to know that he needed the facts of what happened, and Libby tried to snow job him. Remember, at the time Libby testified, it was thought that the reporters were going to get away with refusing to testify. So he decided to lie about what he knew, blame it on somebody who wouldn't testify to contradict him. If I was the prosecutor I would be pissed for him wasting my time. There would have been zero charges here if Scooter told the truth.