How about this?
Your car comes up missing, and you accuse me of stealing it. I say I did steal it. Then a cop comes up, investigating the "crime", and I tell him that I drove your car all over North Texas, picking up chicks and drinking Nehis.
Suddenly, your son drives up in your car, and he says "Dad, I took the car and didn't tell you."
IOW, no theft of car. Do I go to jail for lying to the cop about driving your car and picking up chicks?
Of course not. It's not unlawful to have people make practice runs in panic.
Great point!
That depends. If the cop knows that you don't or can't pick up chicks, probably not (see, e.g. "runaway bride").
Are you really going to jail?
Yes. That could be a crime. This is similar to what happened with the "Runaway Bride".
You made a police officer come to investigate you. You misled him. By doing so, you may have let the real person get away with the crime.
Probably "making false statements".
Anyway, I'm still reading the indictment. This is NOT a "Earle" indictment, it has real statements of "fact" and real statements of what LIBBY did that violated the law.
The accuracy of the facts will of course be what a trial is about, but if the facts are as laid out in this indictment, Libby did commit crimes related to the investigation.
In fact,if this indictment's factual statements are all true, it appears Libby could have been charged with leaking classified information.
If you tell me something and so does another person, and I tell a GJ that it was you who told me and you deny it, but there was a pc. of paper showing the other person told me, DID I LIE OR DO I JUST HAVE A MEMORY BANK PROBLEM?
"Do I go to jail for lying to the cop about driving your car and picking up chicks?"
Were you under oath?