Judge Walton read the query sheet I’d marked earlier.
You know someone on the prospective witness list?
I do. Bob Woodward was my boss at the Washington Post for three or four years.
Would you tend to give his statements more credibility than the statements of other witnesses?
I immediately picture a party Woodward hosted at his Georgetown home for the Metro staff about 25 years ago. When I went looking for my girl friend, I found her with some copy aides and reporters in an attic piled high with boxes of files for one of his books.
“Unbelievable,” said one of the reporters. “Look at the file labels. This entire box is backup for one interview.”
But not infallible. Didn’t he write two different books about going to war in Iraq?
Know anyone else on the list?
Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus. I don’t think I ever spoke to him during my 10 years at the Post, but twice in the last 14 months we talked at parties thrown by a mutual friend.
Anyone else?
Until a year or so ago, Tim Russert was a neighbor. His back yard and mine shared an alley and a basketball hoop where our sons played. I attended a few neighborhood barbecues in his back yard.
Attorneys at both tables are suppressing “ain’t this a small town” grins.
Do you know Judith Miller?
No. And yet. I remember a scathing column about Miller in the New York Times and volunteer that I went to grade school with its author, Maureen Dowd. (Maureen had a crush on my brother Kevin. Her older brother Kevin was something of a hero to my youngest brother Brendan after he showed up to coach his grade school football team one Saturday morning in a convertible, with a gorgeous woman in a black cocktail dress in the front seat, and what appeared to be an empty bottle of champagne on the floor. They’d obviously been up all night. He obviously had game.)
I’m not eager to be on any jury for a six week trial, especially with a recently published novel to pimp. But the suggestion that I might lay down for a fellow journalist is starting to irritate. I had to work too hard to become a reporter. Started in the basement of the Washington Post pushing 400 pound rolls of paper to the presses, blah, blah, blah.
“From where you sit I’d be skeptical too,” I tell them. “But I’ve also heard good things about Mr. Libby.” Pregnant pause. “A friend who played in a 40 and older touch football league with him says he has a good arm.”
Actual snickering.
One of the lawyers asks me the subject of my 2005 non-fiction book.
“Spying.”
“You wrote about the CIA?”
“I did.” The perfect storm.
Yet here I am.

–Denis Collins, Libby juror

Guest said, “Beats me. He hasn’t said.”

Yet, the press keeps inserting that the administration did because they were seeking revenge or doing harm to war critics which Armitage was a war critic himself….

So you have a person, libby, who is convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation that was already known who leaked MONTHS before they questioned libby.

Libby was convicted for lying and obstruction on something that they won’t even charge the real leaker with a crime (Armitage).

Pamela over at Atlas Shrugs has a great break down:

In a case with no crime …………………Scooter Libby is guilty not of Plamegate (Armitage fessed up to being a gossipy, dishy woman long ago. I can just his his flapping tongue doing 90,)

No Libby is guilty of not taking his gingko biloba.

Scooter Libby is guilty
And Jefferson is free. Federal agents seized $90,000 of the $100,000 crammed into plastic bags and stashed in Jefferson’s home freezer. Hence the moniker, “Cold Cash.”

Scooter Libby is guilty
And Sandy Berger is free. Berger stole highly classified 9/11 documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them in his pants, socks, and under a construction trailer.

Scooter Libby is guilty
And State Sen. John Ford is free. Ford was charged with taking payoffs and threatening to kill a witness.

Scooter Libby is guilty
and Jim McGreevey is free. While Governor of New Jersey, married McGreevey kept his gay lover on the state payroll at considerable expense.

Scooter Libby is guilty
and Harry Reid is free. Reid is guilty of ethic violations when he purchased land for under market value with a lobbyist who’s also tied up in a federal bribery case. Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on the Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.

Scooter Libby is guilty
And the New York Times and the leakers that divulged secret goverment terror programs during war time are free.

Scooter Libby is guilty
And the LA TIMES and the leakers that divulged the Times the names of classified CIA agents (endangering their lives) are free.

Scooter Libby is guilty
John Lynch is free. State senator and former New Jersey senate president, John Lynch admitted in court that he took $25,000 from a South Brunswick sand mining company in exchange for his help in getting approval to build a recreational park. Lynch also admitted failing to declare $150,000 in extra income in 1999. In detailed court documents, federal authorities charged the former powerful Democrat leader with tax evasion and theft of services through fraud. Each charge carries a possible federal prison sentence of five years and a fine of up to $250,000.

Scooter Libby is guilty
and Hillary and Bill Clinton are free. Vince Foster is dead. Clinton rape victim Juanita Broaddrick still traumatized. Clinton sexual abuse victim Kathleen Willey still traumatized. Paula Jones…

In violation of Congressional ethics laws, Hillary Clinton has for years operated a secret foundation that has allowed her and her husband to avoid paying taxes on more than $5 million.

Operated by Hillary, Bill and daughter Chelsea, the multi million-dollar foundation lists a post office box in Chappaqua, N.Y. as its address. It has given $1.25 million in so-called charitable contributions to a variety of questionable recipients, including Middle Eastern heads of state and a shady Arkansas friend who helped Hillary turn a $1,000 investment into $100,000 with fraudulent commodities trades in 1978.

Read the rest of it HERE

She does make excellent points.

Meanwhile the Captain at Captain’s Quarters has a post about a contest being held on when Libby will be Pardoned by President Bush HERE.

If ever a pardon was justified would be here, not like Marc Rich that Clinton did.

2. Scooter shouldn’t have to do time, and probably won’t.

3. Dick (Uncle Fester) Cheney ought to resign, for many reasons, but probably won’t.

4. Tell me the “number” of Talkative Guy on the Jury and then we can discuss why he was picked. If he was Juror no. 10 or 11 or 12, he probably got on because the D ran out of peremptory challenges. If he’s a low number, I can’t imagine why he was allowed on.

5. And finally, a shout out to the commentator who writes of “assassination wet dreams” and the like. Good writing style, Dude! T’was a pleasure to read your comments.

But since what actually happened (i.e, “truth”) is never important in constructing lefty fantasies, don’t worry your little heads. Go back to your assassination wet dreams and your concentration camps for Republicans and the rest of your dogma. Dream of plastic turkeys and lies about yellowcake (uh, no, of course not about the real ones Wilson told, about the mythical ones Bush didn’t tell). And please, please remember to support the troops as you spit on them – after all, in a couple decades you’ll claim that never happened, too.

Wrap yourselves in your cozy internal realities, since they’re much more comfortable than real reality, plus you can control them and replay them endlessly.

Also, didn’t the jury just this morning ask the judge for clarification on how the charges fit the evidence?? Then 3 hours later, they come back with guilty on 4 out of 5 charges. That doesn’t add up either. I have to wonder what that judge said in his reponse to the question.

So much of this only adds up to a vendetta driven agenda. I hope and pray that the American people won’t turn a blind eye to this sort of travesty come Nov 2008. It is going to be a damn long 20 months. – Lorica

Here are some of the reactions of sites on my blogrolls talking about today’s verdict in the Scooter Libby trial.
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So Scotter Libby was found guilty by a jury of his peers for lying to the FBI and the Grand Jury: Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing…