Posted on 03/06/2007 3:06:48 PM PST by bw17
There has been a lot written about the Libby ordeal being a covert op run by certain elements in the CIA who were out to undermine the Bush administration's case for war. Zell Miller wrote an op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution about it. So did a Washington Post journalist named Jim Hoagland (http://www.amazon.com/SPYING-Secret-History-Denis-Collins/dp/1579123953/ref=sr_1_3/102-7588602-9384907?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173221001&sr=1-3)
The thing that strikes me as odd about this Libby trial, is that the spokesman for the jury is a Washington Post journalist, Denis Collins. Since the entire trial essentially boiled down to Libby's words vs. Russert's words, how can a fellow journalist be allowed to sit on and have so much influence over a jury, when journalists are the key witnesses in the trial?
I did some searching on "Denis Collins", and what I found is a bit too coincidental. He authored a book entitled "Spying: The Secret History of History". The link is in the source URL for this post. Wouldn't it make sense that a Washington Post journalist writing a book on the history of spying would have contacts within the CIA who helped him author the book?
Somebody needs to look into the background on this "Denis Collins" and find out if he's ever had contact with Plame, or Larry Johnson, or Vincent Cannistraro, or any of the other former CIA agents who worked so diligently to undermine the President's case for war.
I smell a rat.
The link to Hoagland's article is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202277_pf.html
who needs a CIA mole when you have a former WaPo reporter?
Same difference
Yup. The liberal media got a mole on the jury.
How the heck did Libby's attorney's let that happen?
bump
What about the other 10 people who voted guilty?
Look under your bed before you tuck in tonight.
The defence had the opportunity to strike the reporter with a peremptory challenge. They didn't do so. Remember, this trial was in DC -- a place with a somewhat unusual jury pool.
What about them? It took 10 days to decide if Libby was telling the truth or not?
It was a hung jury that got fed up with arguing about something so stupid. What have the other jurors said about the trial? The only thing that I can find is what Denis Collins had to say. And he couldn't form two sentences in a row about the verdict without mentioning Rove and Cheney.
The mole could have swayed them.
"Look under your bed before you tuck in tonight."
That's rich coming from someone with a tag line about six bullets hitting Lennon and all of them missing Ono.
How did this guy get on the jury? Why didn't Libby use a challenge to keep him off?
Why didn't they strike the reporter? That's insane. They knew that all of the key witnesses would be reporters.
Would Fitzgerald have allowed a juror who served in a Republican presidential administration? Same difference.
...and series.
I agree it smells but it was his lawyer's job was to vet Collins. That's one of the things for which he was being paid his $800/hour.
MISTRIAL.
Was Libby's lawyer appointed?
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