Works almost as well as the Twinkie-Sneeze Defense.

Oh and why is Fred Thompson defending Libby against leaking Plame’s identity when that’s not what he’s on trial for?

semiot @ 88

The defense in a nutshell:

“TYOI He was quite good at remembering ideas and concepts, very bad at figuring out where they came from, how they came to him.”

The Idiot Savant Defense.

The highest paid mental defective ever on the Whitehouse payroll.

-GSD

My God, these people live in a world of lies, wrapped in prevarications and rolled up in mendacity.

a taco of tall tales?a bullshit burrito?

Someone help me as a poor foreigner on AQ anthrax etc. Did Homeland Sercurity report to VP? If not why this task?

I was thinking along the same lines…how come the OVP was doing eveything…figuring out interim govt structure, homeland security, everything it seems.

“Walton When Libby had memory lapses, what was done to trigger recall of things discussed

TYOI He was quite good at remembering ideas and concepts, very bad at figuring out where they came from, how they came to him.”

puleeze! barf.

Then this man should never have been given a Security Clearance. Knowing something came from the CIA and was tagged with a Top Secret status, or that the information derived from a Classified source and repeating it could reveal that source would be impossible for him to maintain.

He would mix Top Secret and mundane matters and simply say…oh I forgot who told me!

In addition, how could this guy ever sort out what was REAL, based upon the source…from what journalists TOLD HIM, or some comments he heard on FOX from O’Reilly.

IDEAS and CONCEPTS are not FACTS. But this suggests that in this administration the facts weren’t at all important, the reliability of sources were not important, where “stuff” (since info without ceracity is simply “stuff”) that was useful to policy was integrated because they fit the IDEA that Libby and Cheney formulated.

kc @ 90

In case y’all haven’t seen this, “Law and Order” hambone Fred Thompson bashes Fitz: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics…..amp;page=1

His arguement is that since no law was broken per IIPA, that no investigation was necessary, hence lying to FBI was ok.

Gee, Clinton broke no laws either, yet he was charged with perjury over a personal matter. Reconcil that first Mr. Thompson, then get back to me.

Why doesn’t Fred Thompson show us the CIA statement about precisely what Plame did in the CIA.

After all, if it was NON-CLASSIFIED then why can’t he give us the report from the CIA’s Office of Public Information.

Why did the CIA have to DECLASSIFY the mere fact that she WIORKED at the CIA…even after it was publically dissiminayted?

Why did the CIA send a request to the DOJ for an investigation of a leak that related to a IAPA violation???

> Remember, Fitz gets two shots in Closing Arg,
> including the last word. He will Clorox away
> the confusion.’

I may be over-interpreting, but it seems to me that whoever on the jury is asking the questions is neither confused nor impressed much by Wells’ defense so far.

Cranky

I wish that juror had asked Hannah

“Do you recall Mr. Libby ever mistaking something that he learned from the Vice-President with something that was said to him by a reporter? What was that?”

Someone help me as a poor foreigner on AQ anthrax etc. Did Homeland Sercurity report to VP? If not why this task?

Actually I think this referred not to a DOMESTIC THREAT but the assertion made by Feith that Al Qaida was learning/obtaining anthrax from Iraq.

Libby was Feith’s supervisor!!!!!

I’m aware of the counter argument that Wells could think the defense is so overwhelming that he needn’t guild the lilly with Cheney, Rove or his own client, but that appears to be so unlikely an scenario, that it really doesn’t deserve discussion. Libby can’t testify because he will be destroyed on cross. Rove and Cheney can’t testify because they are liars and will be revealed as such. And since Cheney was reputed to have had that moment of “truth” with Libby, telling him that he, the VP, was Libby’s source for the identity of Wilson’s wife, Cheney’s absence from the courtroom will speak volumes to the hopelessness of the defense.

Given the amount of lies over time it must be difficult to remember them, hence the memory defense.