Emptywheel: "We've Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List"

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We've Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List
by emptywheel

There you are, ladies and gentleman, the list of all potential witnesses who may be called at Scooter Libby's trial. The most interesting surprise? Dougie Feith, propaganda artist extraordinaire. And yes, Karl is on there. Condi Rice is on there. George Tenet. Scottie McClellan. Andy Card. Adam Levine--who has said clearly that Libby and Rove were in charge of the Wilson response and who Hubris suggest might be 1--he's on there.

There are fifteen (oops, missed some) people from OVP, including Libby and Dick. Call me crazy, but this trial is probably going to shine more light on the dark corner that is the Vice President's office than anything we've seen before.

I'll comment more below, but for now I wanted to share this with you. This trial is going to be nuts!!!

Update: As cboldt notes, this is a list of everyone who may be mentioned at the trial, not witnesses. And per his request, here's the voir dire questions.

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January 16, 2007 at 10:37 in Bush/Republican Scandals, Contributor--emptywheel, Press and Media | Permalink | Comments (54) | TrackBack (0)

[seemslikeadream]

1. Suprised to see Feith also

just maybe there will be some talk about those Niger forgeries since he knows quite a bit about them

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. just curious

is this trial open to the public? Will anyone be blogging it?

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Man, I HOPE it's televised! If the networks want ratings, they should show every minute of it.

I have no clue if it's open to the public. If Cheney is testifying in person, it will be closed because of security, I would think.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. CHECK FIREDOGLAKE FOR BLOG

http://www.firedoglake.com/

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. thank you!

eom

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Sy Hersh. Hmmmm...interesting. I thought Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame filed a suit to

get out of witnessing? Did they lose? They're on the list. Chris Matthews and Tim Russert are witnesses too. Libby says Russert told him about Plame and Russert says Libby called him. I wonder how this went down with Matthews? Is Libby trying to blame Matthews too?

I heard some talking head (I think it was Fineman on Tweety's show) say that IF Libby uses the excuse that he was so busy with other MORE IMPORTANT things that he just forgot about his conversations with Russert and Matthews, then that will open the door to dig into just what exactly WAS more important at that time. Libby has also told Fitz that Cheney talked to him about the Plame issue on a DAILY basis and some days, several times. He also told Fitz that the Plame issue was very important to Cheney. This is going to be good.

[H2O Man]

6. Being on the list

does not mean they will be called to testify; being called to testify does not mean they would. In particular, this applies to Joseph Wilson, as it is extremely unlikely Valerie would be called upon. And Judge Walton has not decided if he would have Wilson testify, or if he would exclude him.