Posted on 10/28/2005 5:00:46 AM PDT by kcvl
Per Fox News...
Peach seems to be a self-designated thread monitor.
You're pretty new here. Maybe you don't know the rules. But go ahead and break them repeatedly and see what happens.
Why would he hire a criminal attorney before he knew he was going to be charged with a crime?
Yet he has no conclusions about motive. And he also refers to "outing" Valerie Plame. He does NOT deal with the fact that she was not under cover for more than five years prior.
Overall impression, this prosecutor believes he can, and should, walk on water.
Congressman Billybob
Yep - here is his exact quote (TiVO):
"I will say this. Mr Libby is presumed innocent. He would not be guilty, unless, and until a jury of 12 people came back and returned a verdict saying so. BUT IF WHAT WE ALLEGE IN THE INDICTMENT IS TRUE, then what is charged is a very, very serious crime that will vindicate the public interest in finding out what happened here."
He said this right after the stuff about banning someone from baseball, and sand in the umpire's eyes. (rolling my own)
A little comic relief, LOL!
I cautiously agree. I just don't see that he's going to be able to prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
I'm not saying Libby didn't do it...I just think it'll be really hard to prove.
Nothing, nada, zippo. The big pink elephant sitting in the living room and this idiot sees fit to ignore it totally. Special counsels and independent counsels should be banned from American soil no matter which side they are investigating. The best and the brightest just can not help themselves. Evidence the SCOTUS.
Don't you think he would be convinced his case was strong enough he wouldn't have to say IF.
This is a freaking joke.
Fine
Peach, Tone it down also
Oh, hon. You are pulling your stalking stunt again?
I haven't been on a thread that you've been on in over a week. You think a little too much of yourself.
Total BS. See post #2262.
Maybe he'll be forced to sit down and breath into a paper bag.
He is coming across like some kind of geek. I imagine when this is all over he will lock himself in the bathroom, put his head in his hands, and have a good cry.
He's got diarhhrea of the mouth when volleying his little folksy analogies and lectures.
Leni
If I receive information at work labeled FOUO, I would be in deep do do if I forwarded that info to anyone outside my organization regardless if the information was already in the public arena.
There is an old standard that says never be your own lawyer because you won't get the advice you need. This has played out here -- he needed some solid advice from an outside.
If he is a criminal attorney, then he had to know he lied to the FBI and GJ? Or am I missing something.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a witchhunt but I also think talking to reporters about a CIA employee whatever her status was a dumb move.
Rush said that the left has been putting up a bulletproof shield around this Fitzgerald for the last several weeks. The Eliot Ness description is fitting.
You know, that's just....dumb. Libby had to have suspected for several days he might be in some trouble. Why wait till now to shop for a lawyer?
But not much in this whole damn orchestrated musical production makes one bit of sense.
"Whereas Libby is being indicted for discrepencies in his statements regarding two conversations he had with reporters - and those discrepencies did little to affect the overlying case (which yielded NO indictments on the initial charge, the entire reason for Fitzgerald doing the investigation in the first place)."
This will get lost in the shuffle. But "process crimes" should be material. This was not, since there was no underlying crime.
Fitzgerald wants to be famous. Wants to be loved by our one party establishment.
Oops. Breaking those rules again. Lovely.
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