Libby to Fitzgerald...

[katty]

more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200603200927.asp

Byron York
NR WH Correspondent

March 20, 2006, 9:27 a.m.
Libby to Fitzgerald: If You Won’t Name the CIA Leaker, I Will
And what was that Colin Powell said in September 2003?

It's sometimes difficult to remember, given the legal twists and turns it has taken, that the CIA leak investigation was begun to find out who exposed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Wilson to columnist Robert Novak and whether that person violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in doing so. After more than two years of investigating, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has not charged anyone with that crime — if indeed it was a crime — nor has he publicly answered either question. Fitzgerald has even refused to provide lawyers for the only person indicted in the case, former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby, with evidence that Wilson was indeed a covert agent at the time of the July 14, 2003, Novak column, or that the exposure of her identity did any damage to national security, arguing that that information — the very heart of the CIA leak case — is not relevant to the perjury and obstruction charges against Libby.




But now the Libby defense team is attempting to return the case to first things. In an extraordinary 35-page motion filed with Judge Reggie Walton late Friday, Libby's lawyers lay the groundwork for a plan to use his perjury trial as a way to find what happened in the CIA leak affair. After all, just what is it that Libby is accused of lying about? Why was it that all the conversations in question were taking place? Who said what to whom? If Libby's lawyers persuade Judge Walton to order Fitzgerald to turn over some of the reams of information he has gathered in the case, we might finally found out — most likely over the prosecutor's vigorous objections — what actually happened in the CIA leak case.

Libby's motion is, formally, a request for documents relating to the expected testimony of an imposing roster of current and former government officials likely to be called as witnesses in the trial. In the motion, they are listed together (at least publicly) for the first time:

[acmavm]

1. First thing that pissed me off was what is wrong with these people?

What kind of mental illness would make you make up words like 'misremembered'????? The term is FORGOT. Stupid SOBs.

Second, here comes old Colon, out of mothballs again. I wonder if he will quietly accept his roll as whipping boy and lackey? He always has before.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. York has been hanging around the Frat Boy too much

I don't think York ever worked in the Nixon White House. They were good at Orwellian language, too.

[Burning Water]

5. I don't know.

There's a difference between "forgot", and remembering wrongly. Over time, details will get confused with the details of other events, people's memories tend to put a gloss over what happened so that, say, an incident was not nearly as humiliating in memory as it was in actuality, or the glory was greater, for instance, maybe your scored one touchdown in the big game rather than the 3 you think you did.

And people can really remember it that way, without meaning to lie.

I'm not defending Libby, just disagreeing with your definition. Although, "misremembered" is pretty ....unusual, to say the least.

[acmavm]

6. Misremembered is about as grammatically acceptable as is

misunderestimate. And we all know where that one came from.

[Burning Water]

10. Grammar is one thing.

The concept is another.

[HereSince1628]

2. Well, it couldn't STAY with first things because Libbly obstructed justice

and lied. So who the hell do we REALLY blame in this? It absolutely MUST be Joe Wilson. If the asshole hadn't outed Bush on his SOTU lie none of this EVER would have happened.

Suck it up guys. Your NeoCon heros are gonna go down for thier stupid as ANTI-AMERICAN crimes.

:rofl:

[Barrett808]

8. What is it with NRO? Do they get paid by the word for Bush propaganda?

What does William F Buckley really think of his spawn?

[HereSince1628]

9. Anything for a buck, it's the conservative's motto.

If it sells subscriptions it's more than good enough to print.

[wordpix2]

3. poor widdle Libby, "we wuz all talkin' bout Plame becuz we thot she's

pritty, not becuz we wanted to out her CIA status. And I cain't 'member anything that wuz said becuz I'm a dumbass & cain't remember a dern thang.'

Yeah, right.

[H2O Man]

7. Point in Fact:

As reported in Michael Isikoff's February 13, 2006 article in Newsweek ("The CIA Leak: Plame Was Still Covert"), "Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done 'covert work overseas' on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA 'was making specific efforts to conceal' her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion."

Because Team Libby repeats a lie several times, it does not change that fact.