Libby jury: Cheney aide John Hannah, ironically, a defense witness, helped convict Libby

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17490702/site/newsweek/page/3/

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Another Cheney aide, John Hannah—ironically, a defense witness—also helped convict Libby, according to Collins. Hannah, a national security advisor to the vice president, had been put on the stand by the defense to testify that Libby was dealing with pressing issues of national security and international terrorism during the time the questions about Valerie Wilson first arose. That point was central to the defense argument that Libby could not have been expected to remember a relatively trivial detail like the fact that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA.

Hannah testified that Libby was known to have a bad memory. But juror Collins, a former Washington Post reporter, pointed out that Hannah had also testified that Libby had an “incredible grasp of details.” The jury concluded in the end that the details about Joe Wilson and his wife—and the need to tear down a critic of the Iraq war—were just too important for the vice president’s chief of staff to have forgotten.

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1. Yeah,

They hire people with bad memories to be the VP's Chief of Staff all the time :eyes:
Glad the jury was keen enough to think that one through.