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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.

LOL, obviously if he would have testified, you would be saying he shouldn't have, that no defendant should, as many lawyers often council. I'm sure they are second quessing themselves now, as all do.

Motive was very important in this case, the juror just stated this on the air, regardless of judges instructions.

Any juror with common sense, and not one tainted by political propaganda that has surrounded this case for years, would not send a human being to jail for not remember conversations the same way others did, especially when it was so consistent, frequent, and was unabashed. Not to mention ridicules on its face that he would plan this with so many in his office and at various news outlets to contradict him.

It is a crime that Fitz used no discretion in this case, because he knew he had a political jury.

I have no respect for a jury that behaves like they live in a Banana Republic.