Yet, somehow, it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he lied. Go figure.
Listen to what they have said and then go figger.
Maybe Libby should have enlisted Stinger instead of a hot-shot defense attorney like Mr Wells.
Oh I doubt I could have done any better.
Obviously, Mr Wells didn't have the same grasp of the case that Stinger does.
I think the did make one strategic error but then hind site is 20/20.
Otherwise, how could all of the jurors determine that it was beyond reasonable doubt that Libby had lied - not forgotten.
So you believe all juries are perfect?
It's all laid out quite plainly [plainly enough if you're willing to see it] in the indictment.
The indictment is ONLY an assertion.
Who testified that they had first hand knowledge Libby was trying to willfully obstruct justice? What was the written evidence the prosecution presented?
Basically, Libby had a bunch of meetings with govt officials [about two a week for a month] where he discussed Plame/Wilson etc.
And reporters.
But he told investigators that he learned about Plame subsequent to these meetings from reporters instead of from the govt officials [including the VP].
So what? How did that obstruct Fitzgerald from learning that Armitage is the one who told Novak that Plame worked at the CIA? And seeing as the other key witnesses also had memory lapses as to whom they first heard it from and when what was the overwhelmingly convincing evidence that Libby willfully and knowing lied for the purpose of obstructing justice. Have you heard a juror state what it was?
So, not only did he "forget" who had told him, he says he "forgot" he knew at all despite the plethora of meetings and faxes etc.
And the overwhelmingly convincing evidence otherwise was the shaky memory of the others.
It's also worth noting that:
"...Mr. Novak was not the first reporter to be told that Wilson's wife, Valerie Wilson, Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie, worked at the CIA. Several other reporters were told. In fact, Mr. Libby was the first official known to have told a reporter when he talked with Judith Miller in June of 2003 about Valerie Wilson."
You don know that Ms. Miller had to revise her own testimony due to faulty memory.
Andre Mitchell stated she and many reporters in the Washington office of NBC knew. It wasn't a secret.
As the respected journalist Charles Krauthammer put it
"Think about that. Can
you remember when you first heard the name Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame? Okay, so it is
not a preoccupation of yours. But it was a preoccupation of many Washington journalists and government officials called to testify at the
Libby trial, and their memories were all over the lot. Former presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer
testified under oath that he had not told Post reporter
Walter Pincus about Mrs. Wilson. Pincus testified under oath that Fleischer definitely had.Obviously, one is not telling the truth. But there is no reason to believe that either one is deliberately lying. Pincus and Fleischer are as fallible as any of us. They spend their days receiving and giving information. They can't possibly be expected to remember not only every piece but precisely when they received every piece."
