[roses of sharon]

Oh please, the liberal DC jury had hours upon hours of tapes of Libby testimony before the GJ on the way he remembered things.

Unlike the jury who admittedly are anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-Cheney, anti-Republican, I would never consign a man to prison for remembering conversations differently than others.

Fitz had no evidence of Libby trying to suborn perjury, notes asking or admitting to lying, no testimony of him planning to lie deliberately, over and over and over again.

To the contrary, there was PLENTY of evidence that Libby and other gov officials were trying to explain to the press that Wilson was not specifically sent by Cheney, as he had claimed in his oped, and that there was no report on the trip to Cheney as Wilson said, which led to the talk of Val Plame, because she was the one who sent Wilson.

I'm sure he and his lawyer believed they could bring this jury along with common sense, but like most Republicans in DC, Libby has not a clue how ruthless his enemies are.

[conservative in nyc]

Oh please, the liberal DC jury had hours upon hours of tapes of Libby testimony before the GJ on the way he remembered things.

Questions all asked by a guy (Fitzgerald or his underlings) that was hardly sympathetic to Libby's excuses. His own lawyer could have had Libby explain his memory lapse on the stand in a much more sympathetic way than taped recordings from a federal prosecutor who was out to get him.

Fitz had no evidence of Libby trying to suborn perjury, notes asking or admitting to lying, no testimony of him planning to lie deliberately, over and over and over again.

Obviously, the jury didn't think Fitzgerald needed those things to prove Libby perjured himself.

To the contrary, there was PLENTY of evidence that Libby and other gov officials were trying to explain to the press that Wilson was not specifically sent by Cheney, as he had claimed in his oped, and that there was no report on the trip to Cheney as Wilson said, which led to the talk of Val Plame, because she was the one who sent Wilson.

I'm not sure that any of this was relevant to the jury in a perjury case, at least as far as the trial judge charged the jury. The issue was whether Libby was truthful when he told the FBI and grand jury that he learned Plame's "secret" identity from Russert, and lied about what he told Cooper, not whether Libby was trying to out Plame in some sort of grand conspiracy to lie about the intelligence leading up to the Iraq war.