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

MSNBC

[Dog]

Breaking on MSNBC

[maggief]

http://www.amazon.com/SPYING-Secret-History-Denis-Collins/dp/1579123953


SPYING: The Secret History of History (Hardcover)
by Denis Collins (Author) "It always didn't take a thief..." (more)

About the Author
Denis Collins is a journalist who writes for the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Miami Herald. He lives in Washington, DC.

[popdonnelly]

"The Wilsons will now be expecting their movie to be a sell-out."

Sell-out is somehow appropriate to the Wilsons.

[processing please hold]

How can anyone be surprised or shocked at this outcome?

From day one, the dims and leftist have done and said anything, even lied when they wanted without repercussions. There has been no one, on either side, to draw them back and say, enough is enough. They keep taking and taking because there are no boundaries any longer. All the envelopes have been pushed and no one was brave enough to restrain them. We are reaping what we have allowed them to sow. They have been given carte blanch to destroy this country of ours.

From the burglar burger, to the NYslimes giving away national security secrets. We have American politicians going to enemy country's talking with terrorist and those who support terrorism. Our loving politicans say our soldiers lives have been wasted in Iraq.

This verdict comes as a shock to you? I'm not the least bit shocked.

[My Favorite Headache]

Exactly...however...sadly..I think many in the Republican/RINO ranks wants bad things to happen to this administration...

[STARWISE]

Denis Collins ... former WaPo reporter .. has to have his 15 mins. .... jeeze Russert's conversation

He's a published author ... looking for another book deal?

http://www.amazon.com/SPYING-Secret-History-Denis-Collins/dp/1579123953

Book Description

Everyone, at some time in his or her life, fantasizes about being a spy--James Bond, Mata Hari, George Smiley, Maxwell Smart. At the new International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., more than a million visitors have stepped into the secret history of history--and have learned what it is really like to live undercover. This distinctive and fascinating book at once distills and expands upon that experience, with inside information on how spies do their jobs, interviews with operatives, and hundreds of photographs and descriptions of tools of the trade.

Biographies of legendary spies and how they completed their special operations are included, along with timelines showing the developments of bugs, surveillance tools, weapons, and disguises. Letters, maps, examples of disguises, dead drops, and rare photos make spies and their operations from 2000 BC to the present live and breathe on every page.

About the Author

Denis Collins is a journalist who writes for the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Miami Herald. He lives in Washington, DC.

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So, he's writes spy novels .. I bet he's already got the first 3 chapters of his book .. and his agent is juggling calls right now.

CONFUSION!! YES .. Wells, take that to your next actions. I wonder if he's gifting the defense here.

[sully777]

See 601

Journalists are feeding questions

Goodgodalmighty the White House better get a press conference going.

[Ptarmigan]

This whole case was a waste of time and money.

[lugsoul]

You mean that because they did it, it is alright for us to do it?

A common, but nevertheless disgusting, attitude on FR.

[Rutles4Ever]

I'm really curious what Giuliani - a former fed prosecutor - thinks of all this. I'm sure the media will try and paint him into a corner and force him to agree with the verdict.

[roses of sharon]

OMG, this bastard has been watching Chrissy Matthews for years!

Moonbat juror, just as I predicted, a jury of conspirazoids!

[popdonnelly]

"but I do think Libby got himself in trouble"

He didn't learn the magic mantra, "I don't remember".

[Mo1]

Some in the jury micro managed the evidence??

[JFC]

Very Interesting...........

[Howlin]

Moments after the guilty verdict handed to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was made public Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called on President Bush to promise not to let Libby off the hook with a presidential pardon.

"I welcome the jury's verdict. It's about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics," said Reid in a press statement. "Lewis Libby has been convicted of perjury, but his trial revealed deeper truths about Vice President Cheney’s role in this sordid affair. Now President Bush must pledge not to pardon Libby for his criminal conduct."

Libby, a former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted on 4 of 5 counts of obstruction of justice, perjury and lying to the FBI in the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Juror, Denis Colins, was a reporter.

Is he the same guy who was Russert's neighbor? Why was he left on the jury? It all came down to the credibility of Russert vs. Libby. I say ineffective assistance of counsel. New trial granted. Here's hoping.

[PerConPat]

Keep it up, Dems. Your day in the dock is coming. What goes around, comes around.

I've been saying this since 1972 when I watched, as a career Naval officer, the Congress pull the plug on Vietnam. But the beat goes on. We all are aware of the Clintons' lack of memory under oath, the non-sentence awarded to Berger etc.. Only a jolt of epic proportions will set the country, if it survives, onto the Right track. The only sensible approach for individuals has been to amass assets that are as secure as possible from the effects of the nation sinking into the morass of hedonism and all that it promises.

No person with a shred of common sense could truly believe that any group of politicians will be able to prevent the inevitable consequences of a nation's descent once it has sunk to its present level. Only dire circumstances have a chance of waking an over-fed, over-entertained, and soporific society. Scooter's judicial sacrifice is just another symptom of how fast the elevator is going down.

Everybody's day in the dock is coming around.

[A Citizen Reporter]

And if he's THAT guy, he wrote a book on SPYING????

[Red Steel]

NO. I'm saying this investigation should not have been prosecuted because there was NO CRIME to even have a Grand Jury to convene.

Fitz used the law for purposes that it was not intended. To set perjury traps until some knucklehead fell into it. Fitz started an investigation of ....nothing.

[palmer]

Libby told the GJ that he forgot ten conversations with nine people about a topic he was tasked with dealing with in his very important job, and that having a reporter allegedly bring up the same topic did nothing to refresh his memory and he was hearing it 'as if for the first time.' If you believe that, then you believe that Lewis Libby is an idiot.

I think people have conflated the Plame aspect (not undercover, not outed, not a crime) with the witch hunt that Libby was caught in. He clearly lied, but not to cover any crime because there was no original crime to lie about or cover up.

[Steve_Seattle]

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

They DID object to Fitz's closing remarks, AFTER they let him make them. Fitz violated the rule that you can't argue closing with evidence that wasn't introduced into trial. Fitz was going on about the whole outing theory, jeopardizing the life of a covert agent, lying about the war, etc., none of which was pertinent to the charges, none of which had been based on anything but hearsay, and he lied to the court when he claimed he was just trying to establish Libby's state of mind. He was trying to inflame the jury with unproven allegations about what Libby DID, not what he was thinking.