Libby: "The Media Made Us Do It"

[Me.]

Personally not buying what I think is another Team Libby red herring

Libby lawyers finger top State Dept. leaders for CIA leak

Attorneys for former Vice President Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby say one of three senior State Department officials was the source of a leak that exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame.



They say the officials are: former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman.



The attorneys for Mr. Libby plan to argue that a senior official in the State Department leaked Mrs. Plame's identity amid the administration's defense of the U.S. failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The attorneys have sought to highlight heavy infighting between White House staff and the CIA and State Department amid criticism by Mrs. Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.



"The media conflagration ignited by the failure to find WMD in Iraq and in part by Mr. Wilson's criticism of the administration, led officials within the White House, the State Department and the CIA to blame each other, publicly and in private, for faulty pre-war intelligence about Iraq's WMD capabilities," papers filed by Mr. Libby's defense team said.

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/libby2.htm

[MadMaddie]

1. Libby is the biggest backstabber of them all...

and the fact that * and Rove threw him under the bus....pissed him off....

The show is just getting heated up folks....come one...come all....come see the big picture show...:popcorn:

[Me.]

2. Their Defense Of The Day

How many more can they come up with before he goes to trial? Who will they bame next? Delay?

[MadMaddie]

3. Cheney....dreams sometimes come true...

[0007]

5. ....the show is about to start....PLACES....five minutes

He walks & talks and crawls on his belly...for one thin dime come one come all bring the kiddies and hear non-stop lies for two solid hours.

[Blue-Jay]

4. Libby's gonna sell you out, Freeps.

He hasn't a brave bone in his little tiny body, and he's gonna name some names. Start crying now, fuckos.

[H2O Man]

8. I agree.

I think that as the noose tightens, and his attorneys inform him of which way things are heading, he will become a cooperative fellow. In one of the pretrial hearings, his top attorney was saying that if Fitzgerald is able to focus the trial on Scooter's behavior, he will get convictions; hence the defense agenda to focus on things other than Scooter.

[stop the bleeding]

6. He is charged with OOJ, lying and perjury, who leaked Plame's name

has nothing to do with his case, also this is a RW site, however it is always good to see what they are saying :toast:

related thread for extra reading

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=832770&mesg_id=832987

[Me.]

7. FDL's Latest On Libby

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/03/great-big-libby-case-update-part-ii/