Tonight on Countdown

[madokie]

Ambassador Joe Wilson and John Dean will join Keith tonight.

Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.

We'll also look at all the political and legal implications.

That's some of what we're planning tonight.


Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was accused of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters. He was acquitted of one count of lying to the FBI. Fitzgerald says Libby learned about Plame from Cheney and other officials in June 2003 and relayed it to reporters. Libby's defense team argued that Libby recalled his conversations to the best of his ability. Any inaccuracies he made to the FBI or a federal grand jury were the result of a faulty memory, attorneys said. Key to several charges were Libby's recollections of conversations he had with Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press" and former Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper. During the trial, prosecutors said Libby made up a ludicrous lie to save his job during the CIA leak investigation by telling investigators he'd forgotten Cheney told him about the CIA status of Wilson's wife. Cheney had passed the information to Libby more than a month before Plame's identity was outed by conservative columnist Robert Novak.
Following are the individual charges and their corresponding verdicts:
Obstruction of justice: GUILTY
False statements to FBI investigators (Russert conversation): GUILTY
False statement to FBI investigators (Cooper conversation): NOT GUILTY
Perjury to the grand jury (Russert conversation): GUILTY
Perjury to the grand jury (Cooper conversation): GUILTY
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17479718/

[wiggs]

1. John Dean is perfect to have on...Worse than Watergate says alot about where we are today. I'd

also like to see Paul O'Neill on somewhere. His book was one of the first to describe what this administration is like, and he was pilloried for it.

[OhioChick]

2. Should be good.

Is Keith still on vacation? I hope not, even though he's deserving of one.

[LSparkle]

3. I hope Keith gets Wes Clark on in coming days ...

Find out all about the "7 countries in 5 years" plan that was hatched right after 9/11. They planned to start with Iraq and end with ... IRAN. All the more reason to out Wilson's wife (and her colleagues), who were working on proliferation in ... Iran.

"War is our last resort" MY ASS!

[madokie]

6. yea I'm interested in that too. We Americans have been taken for a ride

but I see more and more waking up and once awake it will be hell to pay for the bush*/cheney* cartel. They're fixing to find out what it feels like to have their base turn on them and building 18 is what got their attention, something the cabal could not have wanted or needed at this point in time. Yes the show is fixing to start and its going to be a five star production too

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. I'm assuming that this will be rebroadcast at 9:00, correct?

One of my classes runs right through to five fifty (Pacific Time), and never have I been more tempted to skip out.

[AndyA]

5. WOW! Keith scored Joe Wilson - that's pretty cool.

I'm glad Keith is able to flex his muscles a bit these days, he deserves it! May he grab another 250,000 of Billo's watchers in the next few months.