FITZ Wants to Use Cheney Notes to Nail Libby + New Filings 5/24/06

[kpete]

Fitz Filing: Wants to Use Cheney Notes to Nail Libby About Russert

Patrick Fitzgerald has filed another response (pdf)http://talkleft.com/fitzmay24.pdf to Scooter Libby's motion to compel documents. He includes portions of Libby's grand jury testimony from March 4 and March 24 as exhibitshttp://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/files/Libby_060524_FitzEx.pdf(pdf).

An AP report of tonight's filing is here, with a headline that Cheney may be called as a witness in Libby's trial. What Fitzgerald really said is, with respect to the issue of authenticating the copy of Joseph Wilson's July 6 New York Times op-ed with Cheney's hand-written notes on it (discussed here) that there are three ways to authenticate the article, one of which would be by calling Cheney as a witness. Fitz adds:

Contrary to defendant's assertion, the government has not represented that it does not intend to call the Vice President as a witness at trial. To the best of government's counsel's recollection, the government has not commented on whether it intends to call the Vice President as a witness.

Fitzgerald is clearly gung-ho to introduce Cheney's hand-annotated copy of Wilson's column into evidence at trial. Cheney had written on the article:

Have they done this sort of thing before? Send an Amb to answer a question? Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? Or did his wife send him on a junket?

more at:
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014938.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. I've been checking Fitzgerald's site all day... there's nothing new posted

how come Talkleft has it already? :shrug:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/legal_proceedings.html

[spuddonna]

3. Hey!

You're right! It isn't up there... How'd they get it? Are they staking out the courthouse?

[Kagemusha]

4. Something like that, yeah

This isn't the first time TalkLeft has had stuff like this. So someone's put in special effort.

Actually don't many courthouses post stuff ASAP anyway nowadays? Obviously Fitz' site won't put up something the courts don't have up. And it's not like he has tons of staff. I heard 5 lawyers, none full-time! (Wow.) So they probably just haven't physically gotten around to posting on their own site. Obviously someone else has more time on their hands :)

[kpete]

5. Who cares who has it, what do you think?

lots of interesting Libby/Cheney info!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. The authenticating Cheney's notes is on the scroll for my local NY NBC

news. Also, the Today Show has reported that Cheney might be called to testify. So apparently NBC has the same info.

[spuddonna]

2. Ooooh! Time for popcorn and reading! :) n/t