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

MSNBC

[Dog]

Breaking on MSNBC

[voltaires_zit]

> She was the curly haired gal on the Clinton team during
> his impeachment process.

Oh well, even a stopped clock can be right twice a day.

The one thing every politician should have had drummed into them since 1973 is: don't lie. "No comment" or take the 5th. Might make you look bad, but it won't get you a stretch in prison.

[Red Steel]

Libby had already lied to the FBI before Fitz came on board. Did he have a time machine to go back and set these traps?

Then the FBI was investigating a non-crime.

[Alberta's Child]

You do a great disservice to some of our very loyal and patriotic statesmen when you paint everyone in elected office with such a broad brush. Simply being there to serve does not necessarily make one a "hack".

Anyone who spends his/her entire career in Beltway politics is a "hack," as far as I'm concerned -- and that goes for elected officials, bureaucrats, media jack@sses, etc. If that upsets you, then too bad.

OK. Since he and his family have money, he is not entitled to sympathy for having his liberty stolen from him by a rogue prosecutor and jury? This is not a game, and this is not funny. Injustices like this must be confronted. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.

My point is that it goes with the territory, so there's no reason to make a big deal about it. I don't remember seeing too much sympathy here for Betty Currie when she was getting run through the wringer back in 1998-99.

[roses of sharon]

LOL, Plame was so "covert" that the CIA let her husband write an op-ed about the "covert" trip he took, the "covert" intell he found, on the orders of his "covert" wife? In an international newspaper no less, lol.

Good grief, trolls don't realize how stupid they sound.

[oceanview]

Wells had very little to work with in this case, the judge and jury stacked against him, that stunt with the valentines days shirts, getting that one juror thrown off.

[CutePuppy]

Given the jurors' question to the judge on Day 10...it appears they were confused and unclear as to what charges Libby was even facing!

This is DC jury. These people got on the jury to convict. They were not confused about that. No matter how much you pay defense lawyers, it's not going to change that fact.

This was all about "vindicating" and "justifying" Fitz's witch hunt. The WaPo reporter on the jury pretty much said that. "WHERE WAS ROVE, WHERE WERE THE OTHERS...? "

[woofie]

David Schuster just said the door is wide open for Libby to spill his guts.

Im still waiting for this woman to spill her guts

[CaptRon]

And her Vanity Fair picture said as much. With those glasses it was a thumb to the nose to the Bush administration. "I'm covert, so I'm hiding my identity, teehee..."

[Dave S]

You base this on Ari or Libby saying he didn't remember and coming back saying he may have?

Say what? What are you talking about?

[voltaires_zit]

> Then the FBI was investigating a non-crime.

And that matters, because.... ?

[machogirl]

the juror's comments alone prove that they were "confused" about who they were trying and for what

[Miss Behave]

And tell me that Mrs. "Crutches" and friends and neighbors and acquaintances and info-hags thought that Plame was *covert*.

That would be like Hillary wondering if her pants make her butt look big.

[petercooper]

do you use nuve9 as your DUmmy name also?

[JamesP81]

My point is that it goes with the territory, so there's no reason to make a big deal about it.

Oh yes there is. Believe me, if the pols can launch a successful personal vendetta and ruin the reputation of a man with enough money to get a good legal defense, they can for sure can your ass in a heart beat. And I'm beginning to think whether we elect R's or D's, it doesn't matter, because that day seems like it will come no matter what.

When one man's rights are violated, it weakens the protections against our rights.

Make sure you have your papers ready comrade.

[CharlesWayneCT]

But what that juror SAID was that they really DIDN'T want to convict him, but he was guilty so they did anyway.

Nothing he said suggested that they convicted him because they wanted to "get" Cheney.

[GOP_Muzik]

Is it just me or is the WaPo juror saying "where was Rove, Cheney" almost surreal? There is a serious problem here.

[AliVeritas]

Dumb question: Is this the same guy from the jury?

re: Spy book for the museum

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.

I can't find one column from any of the papers?

Oh, he wrote this as well:
Behaving Badly: Ethical Lessons from Enron

Obviously he is/was a business ethics professor, here's interviews re: Enron
http://www.likeitismagazine.com/IssueIV/enronethics2.htm

http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=62449

More books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-4173428-8300041?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Denis%20Collins

[Txsleuth]

My daughter came and I couldn't watch TV or listen to radio...ugh.

This juror you all are talking about...not only was he a WaPo reporter...but wasn't he a neighbor of Bob Woodward???

[Dave S]

Why not just say, "I don't remember?" Who can argue with that? It was good enough for Russert, good enough for Hillary.

if he was half the lawyer everyone thought he was, he would have followed that strategy. Apparently he thought he was even smarter than he was.

[Recovering_Democrat]

CRAP verdict.