Posted on 03/06/2007 12:03:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - Talk about an "instant" book. Within two hours of I. Lewis Libby's conviction Tuesday for lying and obstruction of justice, a publisher announced plans for a paperback release about the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.
"Like the published reports from the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group, the CIA leak case warrants a definitive book based upon the Libby trial record," Philip Turner, editorial director of Sterling Publishing's Union Square Press imprint, said in a statement.
"The United States v. I. Lewis Libby," which will include testimony and original reporting, will be edited by investigative journalist Murray Waas of the National Journal, a weekly magazine. The book is scheduled to be released in April as a paperback original, with a first printing of 75,000.
Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. The verdict culminated a nearly four-year investigation into how CIA official Valerie Plame's name was leaked to reporters in 2003.
The trial revealed how top members of the Bush administration were eager to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who accused the administration of distorting prewar intelligence on Iraq.
Sterling also published Wilson's "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity."
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson depart after holding a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington July 14, 2006. Former vice presidential aide Lewis 'Scooter' Libby was found guilty on of four counts of lying, perjury and obstructing justice during an investigation where investigators were trying to determine who leaked the identity of Plame. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the criminal case against Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, speaks to the media at the U.S. Federal Court, near the Capitol Building (background) in Washington, March 6, 2007. Libby was found guilty on Tuesday of four of five counts of obstructing justice, lying and perjury during an investigation tied to the Iraq war. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)
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Denis Collins. a juror in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, talks to the press regarding the verdict in the trial, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, outside federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald talks to the press outside federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, after the jury reached its verdict in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
This guy looks strangely familiar.
excerpted from an ap article on yahoo
Libby found guilty in CIA leak trial
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cia_leak_trial;_ylt=AgakkXh_kA54ewr8W7vDNh_IU6Yv
One juror who spoke to reporters outside court said the jury had 34 poster-size pages filled with information they distilled from the trial testimony. They discerned that Libby was told about Plame at least nine times and they didn't buy the argument that he forgot all about it.
"Even if he forgot that someone told him about Mrs. Wilson, who had told him, it seemed very unlikely he would not have remembered about Mrs. Wilson," the juror, Denis Collins, said.
Collins, a former Washington Post reporter, said jurors wanted to hear from others involved in the case, including Bush political adviser Karl Rove, who was one of two sources for the original leak. Defense attorneys originally said both Libby and Cheney would be witnesses and Rove was on the potential witness list.
"I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?' " Collins said. "I'm not saying we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was, as Mr. Wells put it, he was the fall guy."
"Collins, a former Washington Post reporter"
What stupid ambulance chaser allowed this biased XXXhole on the jury?
I've seen hate - but not at this level.
What do you think the odds are that the former Washington Post reporter, Collins will write his own book?
Grounds for Appeal:
1. "Even if he forgot that someone told him about Mrs. Wilson, who had told him, it seemed very unlikely he would not have remembered about Mrs. Wilson," the juror, Denis Collins, said.
The judge did not allow a memory expert to testify on Libby's behalf. It was READILY apparent that Libby's memory was what was in question. The juror validated that argument.
2. "I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?'
The judge allowed Fitzgerald to mention highly prejudicial information to the jury that was not entered into evidence. This juror admits that the information mentioned played a central role in their thinking.
Grounds for appeal: there never was a case.
NORM they going do movie actually Tom Cruise production company doing the movie if you believe Fox news Roger Freidman
This trial had nothing to do with a CIA leak. It was a perjury trial and a piss-poor one at that.
The media is convinced that they can call it anything they like and get away with it.
Now would be a good time for some in Congress to create a type of "Son of Sam law" against jurors and prosecutors profiteering from trials.
Apparently a newly created imprint:
http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=6&a=34691
http://onlypunjab.com/fullstory2k7-insight-Richard+Perle-status-28-newsID-13798.html
Man, these guys are good.
They don't wait for their elected officials to take action, they kick ass on their own.
To bad FR has ZERO talent to take on the enemy.
Expect a biased edition
Union Square Press, the newest imprint of Sterling Publishing, has signed veteran news producer Alan Weisman to write a book on political advisor and lobbyist Richard Perle, to be published in November. Prince of Darkness-Richard Perle: The Kingdom, The Power and the End of Empire in America is not an authorized biography, but Perle did grant Weisman several one-on-one interviews.
"This will be an investigative biography of the highest quality, from a writer with superb media connections," said Philip Turner, the editorial director of Union Square Press who acquired the book. "By examining the career of Richard Perle in depth, it will give readers a profound understanding of how American foreign policy has been shaped over the past 30 years, and especially how we were led into war in Iraq."
Weisman previously worked with CBS News, 60 Minutes and Charlie Rose and wrote Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather in 2006.
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