So why are we Prosecuting Libby?
Seems that we have the wrong guy on trial.
Now the Judge is upset because he isn’t getting the answers that he wanted to hear.
WASHINGTON COMPOST ARTICLE
Journalists Testify That Libby Never Mentioned CIA Officer
By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 13, 2007; A03Six journalists testified yesterday that Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, never mentioned an undercover CIA officer to them—and some said they learned about her identity from other administration sources.
As Libby’s attorneys opened their defense in his perjury trial, they argued for a second time that Libby need not take the stand for them to present elements of a defense that his misstatements to investigators were the product of a faulty memory. An irritated U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he felt misled and believed Libby would testify.
Testifying as the first defense witness, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus revealed that then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was the first person to tell him, on July 12, 2003, that war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV was married to undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame. His remarks contradicted Fleischer’s testimony as a prosecution witness last month.
Pincus was the first of six reporters to say they spoke to Libby, or were called by him, during a crucial period in June 2003 and early July 2003 but did not learn Plame’s identity from him.
It is during this time that the prosecution says Libby was engaged in a fervent effort to discredit Wilson, who had publicly accused the White House of twisting intelligence he had gathered as it justified the invasion of Iraq. Prosecutors contend that Plame’s identity and CIA post were leaked to leave the impression that Wilson was chosen for a CIA-sponsored mission to Niger because of nepotism. Plame’s name was revealed in a syndicated column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003.
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