Verdict in Libby Trial in....reading at noon. (Guilty On 4 of 5 Charges)

MSNBC

[prairiebreeze]

Somebody else who was carefully screened out of this process...Andrea Mitchell.

[Dave S]

i've come to the realization with all libs, that the ends justifies the means, the leaks don't matter when it's a lib doing it, their end is "noble" and "right"

After all this time you would think everyone would finally know what Libby was charged with. Get it straight. Libby wasnt charged with leaking. He was charged with obstruction and lying to FBI and the grand jury. Your comment is nonsense.

[popdonnelly]

"I must've hit a nerve."

Lugsoul is all nerve.

[KavMan]

How can this be a fair trial when this is such a partisan case and you have it in DC where RATS outnumber Republicans 8 to 1? The jury can't be trusted to be fair.

[Eagles Talon IV]

I believe Nixon was pardoned of any "possible" convictions that would have come about in a future trial. he was never tried and couldn't be because he was pardoned in advance. I this case the trial went forward and I suppose has to be completed including all appeals before a pardon can be issued.

[txroadkill]

This is just sickening. To have to listen to these rats take the high ground while knowing what CLINTON did is enough to make your stomach turn.

[mimaw]

I hope ex AG Ashcroft sleeps well tonight. Why the hell to satisfy stinking miserable demonrats this case was ever handed over to a special prosecutor I'll never understand. Questioning by justice would have turned up Armitage, case closed. WHY the hell justice doesn't do anything about real dangerous leak cases is beyond me. Maybe we need to question what the hell is going on.

[You Dirty Rats]

Some people thought it wouldn't have stood up.

The pardon of Nixon ended any efforts to prosecute him. Here we already have a conviction. It is not legally necessary to wait for the appeals process to run its course.

Having said that, I do not believe it would be a good idea for the President to pardon him just yet. Pardon him on January 19, 2009 or on the day he is sent to prison -- whichever comes first.

[CaptRon]

I agree that the President can do this. I think the hitch comes in with the "Offenses against the United States". Naturally, Libby's defense was that he committed no offenses, so a pardon before the verdict would have looked bad, both for the President and Libby. Now that he's convicted (erroneously in my opinion), the President should pardon him.

[staytrue]

While not every government official gets fired and thrown in jail for false statements under oath

Except for Libby, I can't think of one. I'm sure there may be 1 or 2, but maybe you could educate me. In any event, for the most part, this prosecution was useless and absurd.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Interesting take. Irregardless it certainly sets up easy grounds for an appeal.

You generally can't appeal based on something you failed to object to in the trial court.

[machogirl]

but...........she is the smart-assed woman in america

[lugsoul]

Bill Clinton getting a bj from an intern was not a crime. Are you saying that therefore lying to a GJ about it was not a crime?

Conservatives believe that lying to a grand jury is a crime. Those who believe that it depends on what the lie is aren't conservatives.

[Syncro]

A Reid blowing in the wind. What an idiot.

[airborne]

Rudy Giuliani's account has been banned or suspended from FreeRepublic!

Sorry. I couldn't resist! ;^)

[AliVeritas]

If he did, Berger wouldn't be walking free since he was unchallenged and this case wouldn't have gotten to where it has.

[TwoSue]

And how many jurors lied to get on the jury?

[WalterSkinner]

Fitz seems to fancy himself as a modern day Elliot Ness

..or Jim Garrison...

[brothers4thID]

The CNN article mentions that Libby was fingerprinted and then released. Ah, bureaucracy at work. As a Federal employee with a security clearance, Mr. Libby has been fingerprinted at least once and probably several dozen times. But, just in case his fingerprints changed during the trial, lets go by the book and print him one more time!

[HawaiianGecko]

I'm always amazed at how stupid journalists actually are.  Here we have a bevy of correspondents, newspapermen, columnists, writers, commentators and reviewers with Fitzgerald answering questions openly in front of cameras and not one of them says:
"Why have you not indicted Richard Armitage?"

This simple question which is nearly impossible to duck would clear up all of the media hullabaloo.