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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Scooter Libby Guilty on 4 Out Of 5 Counts.

The charges were obstruction and perjury. He was found not guilty of lying to the FBI during an investigation.

An absolute travesty of the justice system. He's been found guilty because he doesn't remember casual conversation. I chat with people everyday and no way do I remember the details of the conversations.

At least the whole Scooter Libby circus can be put to rest now. The whole thing was ridiculous. How you can 'out' a 'covert' CIA agent when she can be seen coming and going from CIA headquarters is beyond me. Anyone who wanted to put in the effort could find out she worked for the CIA without using any classified material.

I will update as needed.

***UPDATE***

Editor&Publisher.com

NEW YORK A spokesman for the jury that convicted "Scooter" Lewis of four counts today of perjury and obstruction of justice today in a federal courtroom told reporters immediately afterward that many felt sympathy for Libby and believed he was only the "fall guy."

Denis Collins said, "We asked ourselves, what is HE doing here? Where is Rove and all these other guys....He was the fall guy."

He said they believed that Vice President Cheney did "task him to talk to reporters."

He said, "some jurors said at one point, 'We wish we weren't judging Libby...this sucks."

Asked about Vice President Cheney not testifying, he said, "Having Cheney testifying would have been interesting." And when the defense opened the trial by suggesting that Libby was scapegoated by the White House, "I thought we might get to see President Bush here."


I think this juror did the Libby legal team some favors. It appears that they were wanting to convict anyone in the Bush administration. The political bias they are demonstrating should cause the verdict to be thrown out and a new trial to proceed.

I question why they feel that Rove, Bush, and/or Cheney should have been there. This was an obstruction of justice and perjury case. It only involved whether Libby could adequately remember conversations that included Valerie Plame. This had nothing to do with who 'outed' Valerie Plame.