Makes you wonder what the heck Libby's attorney was thinking... Amazing.
Not really, he was already sitting up the appeal.
You've got to realize, jury selection is very limited in Federal Courts. Generally Judges get to ask the questions and the amount of peremptory strikes is quite limited. Who knows what kind of juror was next in line to get stuck with if this guy had been stricken. Given a D.C. jury pool it is literally a situation where you have to decide on the best of the worst. The deck was stacked from the beginning. It was a reverse O.J.
Sounds to me like Libby was convicted for a crime that he was not tried for.
Why the heck didn't they use a challenge and knock this guy off the jury? Shoot, if asked the judge might have stricken him for cause, given all the witnesses he knows.