Is not to by found:
Two of the five felony counts in the perjury and obstruction of justice case against Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, are based entirely on a single phone conversation Libby had with Matthew Cooper, then a White House correspondent for Time magazine, on July 12, 2003. In federal court in Washington Wednesday, CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed his documentary evidence to support those charges — one count of perjury and one count of making false statements — and the evidence was this:
had somethine and about the wilson thing and not sure if it’s ever
That brief passage, reproduced here exactly as it was written, is a portion of Cooper’s hastily typed notes from the July 12 conversation. It apparently describes something that was said between Cooper and Libby that may, or may not, have touched on the question of whether Libby leaked to Cooper the information that former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife played a role in the decision to send him to Niger to investigate part of the administration’s case for war in Iraq.
On the witness stand, three and a half years after typing those words, Cooper testified that he didn’t quite know what they meant.
The crux of the charges are that Mr. Libby didn’t recount this conversation to the FBI as this Cooper did. Given that Cooper has no documentary evidence that’s worth a darn it’s just as likely that Cooper got it wrong.
How would you like the full power and weight to come down on you over your memory of what you said in one of many conversations. Now it appears that you very well may be being prosecuted for a faulty memory of this Cooper who very well may have an axe to grind.
If the rest of the charges are this weak then there is no excuse that anyone should be put through this.
Patrick Fitzgerald, meet Michael Nifong.