Crooks and Liars thinks this might be the article the lady read. Re: Libby Trial

[Quixote1818]

Trial in Error
If You're Going to Charge Scooter, Then What About These Guys?

By Victoria Toensing
Sunday, February 18, 2007; Page B01

Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation?

Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald charged Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff with perjury on the theory that Libby had a nefarious reason for lying to a grand jury about what he told reporters regarding CIA officer Plame: He was trying to cover up a White House conspiracy to retaliate against Plame's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV. Wilson had infuriated Vice President Cheney by accusing the Bush administration of lying about intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.


Fitzgerald apparently concluded that a purported cover-up was sufficient motive for Libby to trim his recollections in a criminal way. So when Libby's testimony differed from that of others, it was Libby who got indicted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705.html


Link to Crooks and Liars: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/26/libby-juror-dismissed-is-the-wapos-fix-in/

[Fridays Child]

1. When that article came out, it was immediately exposed as a transparent...

...attempt at jury tampering. Victoria Toensing is a shit bag, in my opinion.

[sam sarrha]

2. if they couldn't conclude that from the testimony they were deaf

[librechik]

3. heh--others here were speculating about the Toensing hatchet job

altho since the Post had 4 anti-prosecution opeds this weekend it would be hard to avoid unless you were A GOOD JUROR and avoided the news altogether like the judge told you to do.

[tishaLA]

4. FDL said the same thing

It's all just speculation....I'm just glad the juror's gone.

[MissWaverly]

5. Oh, Barf, cut me a break

I am tired of this whining of unfairness, the Supreme Court gave Bill Clinton, no slack
NONE over a perjury case. We are talking about the investigation of leaked classified
information, I am tired of the Puke whining.

Here's what the Supreme Court said about why they could not give special treatment to
the prez and he had a lot more responsibility than Scooter Libby for God's sake.

The Supremes definitely stated that the President was not entitled automatically to special treatment that was a civil case, a misdemeanor and they wouldn't even let him delay it.

"If the Judiciary may severely burden the Executive Branch by reviewing the
legality of the President's official conduct...it must follow that the federal
courts have the power to determine the legality of his unoffical conduct..
We therefore hold that the doctrine of seperation of powers does not require
federal courts to stay all private actions against the President until
he leaves office."

Page 41-42 No Island of Sanity by Vincent Bugliosi, Paula Jones v Bill Clinton: The
Supreme Court on Trial, Ballantine Books