Live blogging from the Libby trial continues @ Fire Dog Lake:

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The schedule for the afternoon appears to be this: Start by resolving the jury intstructions. Then get into the peremptories.

We're starting … Walton asks if anyone has any comment about proposed instructions.

Debra Bonamici (Fitz' team) has one comment about the perjury and false statement instruction in the definition of "material"–she proposes changing the term "misrepresentation" in a passage that reads misrepresentation is material if it has a natural tendancy"–they propose to keep it "false statement," not "misrepresentation" in all incidences.

She also explains that the government has a strong objection on instruction on classified information, but since it will only be pertinent to if defendant decides to testify, so the government will respond to it later.

Libby's team needs some time to read the instructions, so Walton is going to go take a break. We're watching Libby's team crowd around their table reading Walton's proposed instruction. Wells is still bent over the instructions. I can't really see what Fitzgerald is doing.

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