Libby Juror: Behaving Badly... Ethical Lessons from Enron

Amazon ^ | May, 2006 | Denis Collins

[ReleaseTheHounds]

By the way, I didn't threaten anybody.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Abathar, I think you are right as I've linked further down the thread. Not sure if this is the same guy who wrote the book at the top of my thread -- it's unclear in Amazon.

[freekitty]

Was Libby actually on trial and convicted for a real reason? This is scary stuff and the dimwits better pay attention. These are the kind of people they want to be in charge; but guess what they will eventually do the same thing to you. No one escapes. You think you are safe; but you aren't.

[cookcounty]

On page 101 he writes a criticism of Cheney's meeting with Lay at the WH, saying Cheney was "receptive" to Lay's position.

What are the chances that Collins, with WaPo credentials, had previous contact with Libby's office? Bears investigation.

[cookcounty]

Denis Collins is not Denis Collins

There are at least 4 "Denis Collins" that are authors. it seems, including a Frenchman writing a book about Marx!

The bio listing the Wisconsin prof at the college lists Behaving Badly as his, but does not mention the Spy book. Probably different people?

I'm one guilty of confusing the two. I apologize.

[cookcounty]

Doesn't appear to be the same guy, it's my bad, too. I was pushing this as the same guy. But the spy is the Gushing Juror's work and might prove interesting.

[Eva]

I turned up a Denis Collins that is a "contributor" to the WAPO and San Jose Mercury, among other papers. This means that the guy is only "former" in the sense that he has not contributed recently, how recently is anyone's guess, or Lexis Nexis search.

[vpintheak]

I agree with you, but didn't Libby's lawyers have the chance to get this guy booted during jury selection?

[Tarheel]

Will the REAL Denis Collins please stand up and end this confusion! ;-)

[newnhdad]

I'm still trying to figure this out this myself. If Libby's representation was so good, how could a WaPo columnist be allowed on the jury? I know it's DC and the jury pool is limited because the population is so weighed down by felons but I would have asked to get this guy off first.

[thegreatbeast]

How did he get on the jury in the first place? Unbelievable.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I'll confess to being confused as to which of these books belongs to this juror -- I think the Spy Book and not the Enron book -- but watching that Fox News interview (I posted the link up in the thread), I was struck by how this guy was so happy to talk about the process the jury went through -- meticulously using Post-It Notes for all the different things Libby apparently said to different journalists, etc., and the jury coming to the conclusion that he lied to the Grand Jury and Investigators and was guilty on 4 of the 5 counts. What I didn't see in that narration was did the jury pursue Post-It Note corroboration of all of the mis-remembering by all of the witnesses and journalists... Did you pursue that, you WaPo-loser "journalist"?