Libby Guilty In CIA Leak Case

Former White House Aide Convicted Of Perjury, Obstruction, Lying To FBI

(CBS/AP) 
Libby was convicted of one count of obstruction, two counts of perjury and one count of lying to the FBI about how he learned Plame's identity and whom he told. Prosecutors said he learned about Plame from Cheney and others, discussed her name with reporters and, fearing prosecution, made up a story to make those discussions seem innocuous.

Libby said he told investigators his honest recollections and blamed any misstatements on a faulty memory. He was acquitted of one count of lying to the FBI about his conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper.

One juror who spoke to reporters outside court said the jury had 34 poster-size pages filled with information they distilled from the trial testimony. They discerned that Libby was told about Plame at least nine times and they didn't buy the argument that he forgot all about it.

"Even if he forgot that someone told him about Mrs. Wilson, who had told him, it seemed very unlikely he would not have remembered about Mrs. Wilson," the juror, Denis Collins, said.

Collins, a former Washington Post reporter, said jurors wanted to hear from others involved in the case, including Bush political adviser Karl Rove, who was one of two sources for the original leak. Defense attorneys originally said both Libby and Cheney would be witnesses and Rove was on the potential witness list.

"I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?'" Collins said. "I'm not saying we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was, as Mr. Wells put it, he was the fall guy."

CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen said Libby's conviction was "predictable."

"Even if jurors had become sympathetic to him during the trial — an unlikely scenario, especially after he decided not to testify in his own behalf — they hardly had any evidence upon which they could have acquitted him," Cohen said.

Wilson and Plame have sued Libby, Cheney and several other administration officials in federal court. Attorneys at the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which brought the lawsuit, praised the conviction and Fitzgerald's team.

"Their prosecution of a senior White House official illustrates that we are a nation of laws and that no man is above the law," attorneys said in a prepared statement.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered a pre-sentencing report be completed by May 15. Judges use such reports to help determine sentences. Libby will be allowed to remain free while awaiting sentencing.

[crime_waves]

All that think this has nothing to do with the leak,Get a clue.Fitzgerald's investigation led to the question, which led to the lying, which led to,investigation.Cheney got documents from Italian intel (Very good friend of Bush) which was fraudulent.Cheney requested an inquiry to Africa for yellow cake.Out come, NO Yellow cake). Wilson comes back states the facts, Cheney & his administration did not agree.He went ahead & addressed the nation with false information. Wilson writing an oped piece stating the facts. Cheney smearing Wilson, inquiring about his position with the CIA. Was told Wilson's wife was an under cover CIA agent.
Cheney calling on Rove & Scooter, plus,plus to leak info to reporters per approval of the PREZ per his napkin notes.Outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings Co.(Also Undercover organization dealing with Nuclear and other investigative ops).
Endangerment of Valerie & every single person she's come in contact with. Then investigation to
The Scooter,Scutt Libby to lie under oath.
On a technicality, this is only about lying,the BiG, biggy, Bigger picture, it's about the whole *** thing. The reason for war, the leak, lies, plundering of our tax dollars, murders of our soldiers, murders of Iraqis & Corporations getting $$.

[crime_waves]

All that think this has nothing to do with the leak,Get a clue.Fitzgerald's investigation led to the question, which led to the lying, which led to,investigation.Cheney got documents from Italian intel (Very good friend of Bush) which was fraudulent.Cheney requested an inquiry to Africa for yellow cake.Out come, NO Yellow cake). Wilson comes back states the facts, Cheney & his administration did not agree.He went ahead & addressed the nation with false information. Wilson writing an oped piece stating the facts. Cheney smearing Wilson, inquiring about his position with the CIA. Was told Wilson's wife was an under cover CIA agent.
Cheney calling on Rove & Scooter, plus,plus to leak info to reporters per approval of the PREZ per his napkin notes.Outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings Co.(Also Undercover organization dealing with Nuclear and other investigative ops).
Endangerment of Valerie & every single person she's come in contact with. Then investigation to
The Scooter,Scutt Libby to lie under oath.
On a technicality, this is only about lying,the BiG, biggy, Bigger picture, it's about the whole *** thing. The reason for war, the leak, lies, plundering of our tax dollars, murders of our soldiers, murders of Iraqis & Corporations getting $$.

[karlimhof]

We haven't even gotten to the BIG LIE, yet.

j0hnwi11iams


Right you are - and that is the big question, whether we ever will.

Events and time are already clouding the origins of this vile misuse of American trust. The debacle now resulting from the unjustified war in Iraq is continuing;

- escalation of violence in Iraq
- the rattle of war sabres in Iran
- covert activities in Syria, and Iran
- millions of refugees flooding neighboring countries and unbalancing their political stability

Soon, perhaps, how all this began, may become of secondary concern to Americans as we are forced to face the storm unleashed in the Middle East by this reckless Administration.

If we are confronted with new terrorist activities here at home, it will be a direct result of this insane neocon Bush War - and not because of the genetic makeup of the Muslim world.

The death and destruction we have allowed to happen in Iraq has affected every family - and has given birth to a hate which will last generations

[firststate]

"Note that when Bill Clinton got caught sodomizing an intern they questioned whether that was really *** :)

Neo-commies always try to ramp things up for Republicans and ramp things down for Democrats."

Posted by Jebby_One

It takes a cast iron pair to say that things are ramped up for Republicans and down for Democrats. Either you were intentionally trying to ramp things up for Clinton or you are so ignorant as to be a waste of time. Your attempt to sensationalize a BJ by changing it to sodomizing an intern is pathetic. Either you are so uneducated that you don't know what sodomy is and can't operate a dictionary, but many of you neo-conies just try to ramp things up on a Democrat. Neo-cons are notorious for using words with highly charged connotations in their sound bytes. The difference is that they aren't usually so Foxually, since the neo-cons get their so-called facts from Fox, challenged. As a rule, right wing-nuts are right on top of the hole sodomy thing.

Ignoring the neo-con Rethuglicon attempted distraction from the subject at hand, the scooter was convicted on 4 of the 5 charges in the indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice. If he's stupid enough to take the fall for the latest incarnation of Trickey-Dickey, oh well. Maybe scooter should work with Haggard or Foley before his prison engagement.

[frankly6]

Jebby_One

Better go back to the shallow end of the pool junior. You clearly can't swim.

Your post is hopelessly deficient of facts.

Anemic.

[long_rider]

Patrick Fitzgerald will make a deal with Libby to get cheney. cheney has to go before the chimp goes.

Under the Patriot act, if treason is brought into play, cheney and the chimp could wind up in GETMO, Cuba - no lawyer, no trial, and be held indefinitely.

LOVE IT. Go get'um Fitzgerald. Just think, the chimp butt buddies with Arabs he put in jail.

[jebby_one]

haaaa ...

Liberal neo-commies keep calling this a spy-leak case when it was an obstruction of justice case.

Note that when Bill Clinton got caught sodomizing an intern they questioned whether that was really *** :)

Neo-commies always try to ramp things up for Republicans and ramp things down for Democrats.

[clemenhagen1]

Eye on the ball people. What does anyone with a brain realize? That Brewster-Jennings, a CIA-front company and an ACTIVE (thus covert) operation did get exposed in Novak's column. The deliberate leak of Brewster-Jennings did compromise national security with respect to issues of nuclear weapons proliferation and did result in CIA operatives and collaborators lives being jeopardized (some were in fact killed according to noted CIA experts). This whole sordid affair does constitute treason, and numerous members of the administration (Armitage, Rove, Libby, Hadley, Cheney, etc) did knowingly and willingly participate in the smear campaign. Treason counts as treason, regardless of partisan persuasion. Justice will not be totally served unless Fitzpatrick can bring the rest to account for their actions as traitors. The fact Bush hasn't fired the lot of them for disloyalty to our country during a time of war speaks volumes about him. Perhaps Fitzpatrick has other ideas...did anyone else notice him specifically say to the press he would cooperate with the Congress if they chose to pursue impeachment against Cheney?

[j0hnwi11iams]

Imagine that. A CON artist found guilty of LYING.

We haven't even gotten to the BIG LIE, yet.

[frosteternal]

"frosteternal=brainfreeze"
LOL
That's actually pretty funny.
Treason is not a felony. It's a seperate class of crime, all by itself, and worse than a felony. (Obviously.)
But once again, I point out - the trial was NOT a treason trial, and to call it so is simply hyperbole.
By the way, I don't care one way or the other about the results of this trial, I just think that the flavour of the article is one of unequivocal bias. I prefer facts, not opinions in my NEWS. (Not a fan of o'reilly either, way too sensational.) I simply think most people don't realise how much "opinion" is dressed up as "fact" in today's "news" stories. It is important to pay attention to such things, so as to make an informed opinion of one's own, not simply swallow whatever the article-writer wants to feed you.