[Eagles Talon IV]

How does this help Wilson? Libby was never charged with outing Plame, nobody was. Isn't that what the Wilson suit is about?

Seems to me that as soon as Armitage admitted it was he who revealed Plame as a CIA agent, Libby was off the hook in that suit.

In the end Bush will pardon everyone involved in this case in about 23 months. The appeals will take that long for sure, so nobody does jail time.

[LS]

No, Libby was not off the hook no matter what Armitage or anyone else said. If I understand this right, Fitzy asks, say, "Do you have a marble in your pocket?" (answer: "Yes.") Question: "Did you talk to Tim Russert?" (answer: "No.") Fitzy produces evidence that he in fact told something to Russert. The nature of what he told Russert is irrelevant if he said he had not talked to Russert. Anyway, I'm basing this on what Rush is saying and what Andrew Napolitano was saying, that basically Libby was viewed as having lied about who he talked to, not WHAT HE TALKED about. It appears Libby got really bad legal advice here, and should have taken the stand.