Hints of Intrigue, Betrayal And Intersection...
“Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy who was asked to stick his neck in the meatgrinder because of the incompetence of me.” - Dick "Shooter" CheneySeveral former officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby had several areas of intersection. Mr. Libby also held the rank of a presidential adviser, and he stood in for Mr. Cheney frequently on domestic and foreign policy meetings. Both men had a hand in the marketing, and later, the defense, of the Iraq strategy. But they approached it from different angles. Mr. Libby was involved in developing and assessing intelligence about Iraq and using it to build the case for the war, and then defending that case as it began to unravel. Mr. Rove built a re-election strategy for Mr. Bush that relied heavily on his prosecution of the war against terrorism and the Iraq invasion.
Both men had their own contacts among journalists. Mr. Rove dealt mostly with political reporters, including the conservative columnist Robert Novak, who first disclosed Ms. Wilson’s identity. Mr. Libby tended to speak with reporters who focused on national security matters, including Judith Miller, then of The New York Times.
Mr. Fitzgerald has also introduced a new player into the mix, Ari Fleischer, Mr. McClellan’s predecessor as White House press secretary. Mr. Fleischer, Mr. Fitzgerald said in court on Tuesday, had been informed by Mr. Libby about Ms. Wilson’s identity as the wife of Joseph C. Wilson, the former diplomat whose criticism of pre-war intelligence about Iraq had set off the case. Mr. Fleischer had later discussed Ms. Wilson with reporters including David Gregory of NBC News, according to the account.<more>
posted by Patrick J. Fitzgerald at 1/24/2007
32 Comments:
Reads like a novel, the whole case. Loonies, I tell ya...they'll all turn on each other at once.
I hope I see some of it in person next week. Judge really should have let the public see this-except they might be really, really mad if they heard it all...
I love watching this train getting ready to jump the tracks. And then to see it headed toward an abyss is the icing on the cake. Fitz, you are da bomb. I get the biggest kick out of seeing you on the tube!
PS televised, that is or at least audio. Maybe they will release it after the trial is over?
sittin' in a tree
I wonder what the jurors think of Libby's memory lost problem and being over worked. Libby was a Presidential adviser, he was in charge of developing intelligence for Iraq strategy yet he can't remember. That might explain by we messed up in the invasion of Iraq and why we're still losing. Bush/Cheney have appointed people with medical problems such as memory lost, liars and crooks to advise them. Cheney/Bush might want to use that as an excuse in their impeachment hearings.
It looks to me like Mr. Wells is tap dancing as best he can to spin a defense for the indefensible. Curiouser and curiouser. This is going to be morbid fun to watch. No honor among these thieves.
12:12 :-D
FYI
Wayne Madsen will be making a public appearance in VA resturant Friday eve.
should be interesting...
These whack jobs are like a big, pus filled boil that needs lanced and Team America is the surgical knife fixin' to lance it. Practice safe law and wear corruption pus protection gear.
the Libby Trial, Hints of Intrigue and Betrayal
DAVID JOHNSTON AND JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — The assertion by lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. that White House aides had sacrificed him to protect Karl Rove, the senior political adviser, appears to be based primarily on Mr. Libby’s own sense that the administration had failed to defend him adequately as the C.I.A. leak case unfolded.
But there is little known evidence to buttress the suggestion by Mr. Libby’s defense team in his obstruction and perjury trial that unnamed White House officials were deliberately setting Mr. Libby up to be a scapegoat.
Mr. Libby’s lawyers said in an opening statement on Tuesday that he felt so abandoned by the White House as the leak investigation intensified in the fall of 2003 that he appealed to his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney subsequently wrote, according to the defense’s opening statement: “Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy who was asked to stick his neck in the meatgrinder because of the incompetence of others.”
The defense team’s statements set off a debate across Washington about whether they were part of a legal gambit to divert attention from the underlying charge that Mr. Libby lied to F.B.I. agents and the grand jury or whether his lawyers had evidence of an effort within the White House to focus the blame on Mr. Libby.
Even if the assertion is shown to be true, it is not clear how it would help refute the charges that Mr. Libby had perjured himself.
Mr. Libby’s lawyers have so far offered few details about how he might have been set up as a fall guy for Mr. Rove. White House aides said little about the alleged rift on Wednesday, indicating they were prepared to grant their former colleague wide latitude to present an aggressive defense — even if it meant letting stand unanswered a story of intrigue and disloyalty involving President Bush’s and Mr. Cheney’s most trusted aides.
The accusations of scapegoating came as a surprise. In the past, White House aides have portrayed Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove as colleagues who moved in different orbits, but whose paths crossed collegially on various pieces of White House business, including the effort to defend a flawed statement in Mr. Bush’s State of the Union speech in 2003 that Iraq had sought nuclear fuel in Africa.
But Mr. Libby may have had reason to feel singled out. He was the only White House official known to have been authorized to seek out reporters in the summer of 2003 in an effort to explain an intelligence report that the administration had used to make a case that Iraq was interested in acquiring uranium ore for its suspected nuclear program, according to documents in the case.
Mr. Cheney approved of Mr. Libby’s confidential meetings with reporters, according to the prosecution. The vice president had also spoken to Mr. Bush, who authorized the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to provide Mr. Libby with more information to discuss with the journalists, the legal papers said.
There may have been other reasons Mr. Libby felt the White House was turning against him. Under questioning from reporters, Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said on Sept. 29, 2003, that Mr. Rove had no involvement in the leak of the identity of an intelligence officer, Valerie Wilson. But it took nearly a week before Mr. McClellan made a similar defense of Mr. Libby.
In each instance, Mr. McClellan’s statements, which he said at the time were based upon conversations with Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby, proved to be inaccurate; Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove had spoken to reporters about Ms. Wilson, who had worked undercover.
While Mr. Libby felt he was being left to fend for himself, there is little public evidence so far to support his lawyers’ suggestion that Mr. Libby was the victim of a deliberate effort to shift the blame to Mr. Libby to protect Mr. Rove, who by the fall of 2003 was masterminding Mr. Bush’s reelection campaign.
The issue of whether there was a conspiracy at the White House either to reveal Ms. Wilson’s identity or to cover up for the White House officials who engaged in such a plot was a central focus of the grand jury inquiry conducted by Patrick J. Ftizgerald, the prosecutor. Mr. Fitzgerald did not charge anyone with participating in a conspiracy and has never suggested that there is any evidence that one existed.
Mr. Fitzgerald spent many months exploring the issue, investigating one newspaper report of a broad conspiracy that later proved to be inaccurate, according to lawyers with clients in the case. Those lawyers said Mr. Fitzgerald questioned their clients, often in minute detail, about what they had done or said about the case. Associates of Mr. Rove, speaking on condition of anonymity, dismissed the idea that there was a cabal against Mr. Libby.
But the defense can marshal an argument that Mr. Libby was initially left out in the cold as the White House began mounting a defense of Mr. Rove, a review of White House comments on the leak inquiry shows.
On Sept. 29, 2003, as the leak inquiry was picking up steam and reporters were pressing to learn Mr. Rove’s role, Mr. McClellan said Mr. Rove had told him he was not involved in the leak. He called the accusations of Mr. Rove’s involvement “ridiculous.”
Asked about Mr. Libby in that afternoon’s press briefing, Mr. McClellan initially appeared noncommittal, saying, “If someone did something like this, it needs to be looked at by the Department of Justice.” Later in the briefing Mr. McClellan said, “I’ve made it clear that there’s been nothing, absolutely nothing, brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement, and that includes the vice president’s office, as well.”
But a government filing in the spring suggested that Mr. Libby was dissatisfied with Mr. McClellan’s handling of the questions about his involvement. The filing showed that Mr. Libby had drafted a handwritten list of talking points for Mr. McClellan that read: “People have made too much of the difference in how I described Karl and Libby. I’ve talked to Libby. I said it was ridiculous about Karl, and it is ridiculous about Libby.”
Mr. McClellan indicated at the time his comments defending Mr. Libby had come from a conversation.
Former White House officials said they were surprised to hear of any rift between Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby. “One of their strengths was that they worked together,” said Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a former State Department official who has become a critic of how the administration had handled Iraq. “They didn’t show any ankle — it was always a team effort.”
Several former officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby had several areas of intersection. Mr. Libby also held the rank of a presidential adviser, and he stood in for Mr. Cheney frequently on domestic and foreign policy meetings. Both men had a hand in the marketing, and later, the defense, of the Iraq strategy. But they approached it from different angles. Mr. Libby was deeply involved in developing and assessing intelligence about Iraq and using it to build the case for the war, and then defending that case as it began to unravel. Mr. Rove built a re-election strategy for Mr. Bush that relied heavily on his prosecution of the war against terrorism and the Iraq invasion.
Both men had their own contacts among journalists. Mr. Rove dealt mostly with political reporters, including the conservative columnist Robert Novak, who first disclosed Ms. Wilson’s identity. Mr. Libby tended to speak with reporters who focused on national security matters, including Judith Miller, then of The New York Times.
Mr. Fitzgerald has also introduced a new player into the mix, Ari Fleischer, Mr. McClellan’s predecessor as White House press secretary. Mr. Fleischer, Mr. Fitzgerald said in court on Tuesday, had been informed by Mr. Libby about Ms. Wilson’s identity as the wife of Joseph C. Wilson, the former diplomat whose criticism of pre-war intelligence about Iraq had set off the case. Mr. Fleischer had later discussed Ms. Wilson with reporters including David Gregory of NBC News, according to the account.
Theodore V. Wells Jr., Mr. Libby’s lawyer, has argued that Mr. Fleischer’s testimony came after an immunity deal and that he had no notes about the lunch he reportedly had with Mr. Libby. But that argument fits what appears to be a general strategy by Mr. Wells to show a confusing situation where loyalties, and memories, are questionable.
Rove's news contact outted Plame fist first..so Rove deep in this..
shows a race between Libby and Rove who would get the coodos first from P and VP....
but shows Rove's cunning ability to twist and turn data..
Both Lied
Rove confessed..
Libby didn't..left blowing in the wind believing that since VP ran things he could take care of the problem...
VP is taking care of self...
Libby...
is in DEEP COODOS
Good Morning JB's!
Fitz, have another great day of playing dodge ball on scooter and his lawyers;-)
So Ari told Gregory? Well, of course Ari wanted immunity...
6:13 anon that was kinda funny story-but the she-males link? btw, I have an acquaintance that meets that description-even goes by a girl name and one day I saw "her" dressed like a girl, holding a girls hand. I was so confused...
bbl
Fitz!
Good Morning Fitzie and JBs,
Love the image.
Come on down, Cathie Martin. What do you have to share with us today?
Go get 'em today, Fitzie!
Nan,
In case you haven't heard, Cathie Martin is up today after Schmall...
Good Morning/Afternoon Everyone! :)
Well, this administration reminds me of the Titantic and while it was sinking.. the actions of the people on that ship. If you have seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about...
Some will believe everything, some will believe some of it and some will believe nothing...until it is too late!
The Libby trial confirms the actions of this administration and now they are all throwing one another under the bus..so they can get off the ship before it sinks!
RUN RATS RUN!! LOL
Have an awesome day all! :D
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/
Scalia_on_Bush_v._Gore__0125.html
Someone should do a poll with the American people to ask if they think the Supreme Court accepted bribes to declare Bush the winner. Someone should ask Al Gore if his family like his daughter and her family was threatened if he didn't shut up and go away?
The filthy cover-ups in this country are disgusting, disgraceful and unforgiving without true justice.
Speaking of Rats: Simon Cowell!
This is so good. I think Libby knows he is finished and is going to pull all the other aspens down with him. Let's hope this trial will bring out all sorts of things to be investigated by Congress.
Good Morning/Afternoon Everyone! :)
Well, this administration reminds me of the Titantic and while it was sinking.. the actions of the people on that ship. If you have seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about...
Some will believe everything, some will believe some of it and some will believe nothing...until it is too late!
The Libby trial confirms the actions of this administration and now they are all throwing one another under the bus..so they can get off the ship before it sinks!
RUN RATS RUN!! LOL
Have an awesome day all! :D
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Make sure all the rotten aspens are pulled out with all the infected connected roots. Americans want all the root rot plucked out so it doesn't keep consuming our country.
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From the Examiner-about Martin and other witnesses with not the best memory
Fitzgerald did not appeared worried by the strategy. He has a stream of witnesses whose recollection differs from Libby's.
"Having a bad memory is not a crime," Fitzgerald said during his opening statements. "The defendant is not charged with having a bad memory."
LOL yeah Scooter!
I'm lagging behind, professor!
All this reading material ---
HELP!!!
Watch 'Revenge of the Nerds' LOLMAO
Revenge of the Nerds
Lewis Scooter Libby Chief of Staff, Vice President
An Advocate of a preemptive strike on Iraq since 1992
Scooter is an expert on oil issues. The neo-conservative
Attorney made over 2 million defending fugitive oil
Billionaire Marc Rich. Libby helped in developing intelligence
For the Iraq strategy. Libby helped with writing the fake
speech that Powell to the United Nations. Libby’s Defense
Is he was to busy to remember anything but he remembers
clearly the visit by Tom Cruise and his girl friend. Our country
To going to invade Iraq and someone leaked the CIA’s name while
Libby can’t remember what was said but he remembers everything
About a Hollywood Stars visit.
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