Comments on: Today in Libby http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:28:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: kim http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-504314 kim Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:16:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-504314 <p>I hate Google Video, I haven’t been able to watch this video for a day now.</p> I hate Google Video, I haven’t been able to watch this video for a day now.

]]> By: slickery http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503230 slickery Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:23:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503230 <p>Alright let me get this straight<br /> Cheney is not on trial OK<br /> Andrea Mitchell dosen’t want to testify<br /> Joe Wilson doesn’t want to testify<br /> Valerie Plame doesn’t want to testify<br /> Cheney doesn’t want to testify</p> <p>Verdict Cheney guilty????</p> Alright let me get this straight
Cheney is not on trial OK
Andrea Mitchell dosen’t want to testify
Joe Wilson doesn’t want to testify
Valerie Plame doesn’t want to testify
Cheney doesn’t want to testify

Verdict Cheney guilty????

]]> By: slickery http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503152 slickery Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:43:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503152 <p>Let me get this straight..On Meet the Press<br /> Gwen Ifel suggested news people should burn their notes to avoid testifying in cases like Libby’s So….Journalist using unnamed sources<br /> and having bad meomories and no notes writing hard news stories that might send people to prison….not sure i want to live in that world</p> Let me get this straight..On Meet the Press
Gwen Ifel suggested news people should burn their notes to avoid testifying in cases like Libby’s So….Journalist using unnamed sources
and having bad meomories and no notes writing hard news stories that might send people to prison….not sure i want to live in that world

]]> By: Gail Walker http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503092 Gail Walker Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:01:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503092 <p>I totally agree!!!!</p> I totally agree!!!!

]]> By: Gail Walker http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503091 Gail Walker Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:59:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503091 <p>I totally agree!!!</p> I totally agree!!!

]]> By: Gail Walker http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503090 Gail Walker Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:58:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503090 <p><a href="#comment-502535"><em>caoimhin laochdha @ 14 </em></a></p> <blockquote><blockquote>Shooter and Scooter, show or no? Place yer bets….</blockquote> <p>No way in hell will the deferred-dick testify. </p> <p>Putting him on the witness list was a stunt. Even if he could add “value” to the defense, he would refuse Libby’s request to testify because he is afraid to. Libby can theoretically - has a legal right to - make him testify. However, the reality is the deferred-dick can tell Scoot’s team “no” and they will obey his command.</p> <p>The defense used his name for fishing during jury selection and for strategic reasons such as preserving an option and making more work for the prosecution. That’s it.</p> <p>Cheney is a life-long coward and that reason alone will keep him off the stand. There are too many mines for him to step on if he testifies and he knows it. He’s afraid to raise his hand, he’s afraid to be cross examined and he’s afraid to lie almost as much as he is afraid to tell the truth.</p> <p>No <em>way</em> will the deferred-dick take the stand. He won’t do it.</p> <p><em>slinte</em>,<br /> cl</p></blockquote> <p> I totally agree!!!!</p> caoimhin laochdha @ 14

Shooter and Scooter, show or no? Place yer bets….

No way in hell will the deferred-dick testify.

Putting him on the witness list was a stunt. Even if he could add “value” to the defense, he would refuse Libby’s request to testify because he is afraid to. Libby can theoretically – has a legal right to – make him testify. However, the reality is the deferred-dick can tell Scoot’s team “no” and they will obey his command.

The defense used his name for fishing during jury selection and for strategic reasons such as preserving an option and making more work for the prosecution. That’s it.

Cheney is a life-long coward and that reason alone will keep him off the stand. There are too many mines for him to step on if he testifies and he knows it. He’s afraid to raise his hand, he’s afraid to be cross examined and he’s afraid to lie almost as much as he is afraid to tell the truth.

No way will the deferred-dick take the stand. He won’t do it.

slinte,
cl

I totally agree!!!!

]]> By: politicalpolyanna http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503076 politicalpolyanna Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:50:01 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503076 <p>Am I too simple minded to grasp the nuances or is the “It-never-occurred-to-me-that-the-identity-of-someone-working-at-the-CIA-might-be-classified-and-I-shouldn’t-be-talking-about-her-to-every-Tom,-Dick-and-Harry-that-might-listen!” defense utterly RIDICULOUS?! I mean I am but a lowly bookkeeper, a worker bee; but I am smart enough to realize that should I know the identity of a CIA employee that I shouldn’t be spreading that information like so much celebrity gossip. Come on! These guys expect us to believe they are smart enough to lead the nation into war, to govern and to “fix” the ills of the nation. But they also want to claim stupidity as a defense when it suits their needs?</p> <p>BS. Pure, fresh off the farm . . . . .BS!</p> Am I too simple minded to grasp the nuances or is the “It-never-occurred-to-me-that-the-identity-of-someone-working-at-the-CIA-might-be-classified-and-I-shouldn’t-be-talking-about-her-to-every-Tom,-Dick-and-Harry-that-might-listen!” defense utterly RIDICULOUS?! I mean I am but a lowly bookkeeper, a worker bee; but I am smart enough to realize that should I know the identity of a CIA employee that I shouldn’t be spreading that information like so much celebrity gossip. Come on! These guys expect us to believe they are smart enough to lead the nation into war, to govern and to “fix” the ills of the nation. But they also want to claim stupidity as a defense when it suits their needs?

BS. Pure, fresh off the farm . . . . .BS!

]]> By: JoyB http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503036 JoyB Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:17:21 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-503036 <p><a href="#comment-502515"><em>tommy yum @ 2 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>What a bunch of cuties!</p></blockquote> <p>That’s exactly what I was thinking!</p> tommy yum @ 2

What a bunch of cuties!

That’s exactly what I was thinking!

]]> By: klem http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-502998 klem Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:46:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-502998 <p><a href="#comment-502918"><em>Mary Ellen @<br /> 190 </em></a><br /> <a href="#comment-502833"><em>klem @ 185 </em></a> <a href="#comment-502769"><em>Patsy Stone @<br /> 177 </em></a><br /> <a href="#comment-502762"><em>klem @ 173 </em></a><br /> <a href="#comment-502719"><em>Patsy Stone @<br /> 159 </em></a><br /> Actually, I hate to be a pain about this, but an astute someone found this in Ari’s testimony at FDL:</p> <p>J Did you tell Pincus that Wilson’s wife worked at CIA.</p> <p>Fl nossir. I would have remembered it if it happened.</p> <p>———————————————–<br /> But Pincus says he did. </p> <p>This still looks like perjury, and unless the question Jefress asked was different than the FDL record (more specific like “Did you tell Pincus that his wife was a NOC?”) then it seems like Ari’s in a bind.</p> <p>———————————————-<br /> I think it was stated in court today that Pincus revealed Fleischer’s name for the first time and that Pincus said he had just contacted Fleischer prior to today’s testimony to make sure it was still OK to testify to their conversation. I don’t think Fleischer would have given the OK if he thought it would get him in trouble. </p> <p>klem</p> <p>———————————————–<br /> Me neither. That’s why I’m sure I’m missing something, either that or Ari’s a huge moron.</p> <p>————————————————-<br /> I think the problem may be in the way Fleischer’s testimony was blogged. I didn’t review the FDL blog on this because it wouldn’t come up, but Media Bloggers makes no reference to Fleischer saying he didn’t tell Pincus about Plame. We would probably have to look at the actual court transcript.</p> <p>————————————————–</p> <p>Ari’s in NO BIND - he negotiated immunity, remember?</p> <p>—————————————————</p> <p>Fleischer said during his testimony that the immunity deal does not cover perjury.</p> <p><em>[Mod Note; please do not use “Quote this Comment” on this comment. It will break the page margins. Thanks]</em></p> Mary Ellen @
190
klem @ 185
Patsy Stone @
177
klem @ 173
Patsy Stone @
159
Actually, I hate to be a pain about this, but an astute someone found this in Ari’s testimony at FDL:

J Did you tell Pincus that Wilson’s wife worked at CIA.

Fl nossir. I would have remembered it if it happened.

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But Pincus says he did.

This still looks like perjury, and unless the question Jefress asked was different than the FDL record (more specific like “Did you tell Pincus that his wife was a NOC?”) then it seems like Ari’s in a bind.

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I think it was stated in court today that Pincus revealed Fleischer’s name for the first time and that Pincus said he had just contacted Fleischer prior to today’s testimony to make sure it was still OK to testify to their conversation. I don’t think Fleischer would have given the OK if he thought it would get him in trouble.

klem

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Me neither. That’s why I’m sure I’m missing something, either that or Ari’s a huge moron.

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I think the problem may be in the way Fleischer’s testimony was blogged. I didn’t review the FDL blog on this because it wouldn’t come up, but Media Bloggers makes no reference to Fleischer saying he didn’t tell Pincus about Plame. We would probably have to look at the actual court transcript.

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Ari’s in NO BIND – he negotiated immunity, remember?

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Fleischer said during his testimony that the immunity deal does not cover perjury.

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]]> By: bklyn http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-502985 bklyn Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:37:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/12/today-in-libby/#comment-502985 <p>Great job ladies.<br /> I sure am gonna have me some ‘Jane Tee Vee withdrawls’ when this trial is over.</p> Great job ladies.
I sure am gonna have me some ‘Jane Tee Vee withdrawls’ when this trial is over.

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