Read the indictment

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

OMG - this is for Mary, the followings is from wikipedia about Fitz and doesn't he sound like a typical, fun loving, shennanigan playing Irish Male

Personal life

. . . Reports indicate that despite being universally seen as extremely competent, intelligent, and meticulous in his work, behind the scenes he is ironically messy, scatterbrained, and fun-loving. His desk and his office are kept in permanent disarray, with assistants discovering drawers stuffed with dirty socks. He once forgot to hook up gas to his apartment for several months, and also forgot a lasagna he had cooked in the oven for several months before finally rediscovering it there. He is known to work well past midnight often and to sleep in his office. He enjoys beer, basketball, and practical jokes. Once when a colleague was nervously waiting for an answer for a judge on a motion, Fitzgerald wrote and delivered a goof court opinion to the colleague. He tried for several months to adopt a cat, but was refused due to his work habit. He finally found a friend in Florida with a cat to give away and flew there from New York to pick up the cat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fitzgerald



Also, and this is why he is universally respected by legal colleauges:

In his first press conference after announcing Libby's indictment, Fitzgerald was asked about comments by Republicans such as Kay Bailey Hutchison "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality..." Fitzgerald responded, "That talking point won't fly... The truth is the engine of our judicial system. If you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost … if we were to walk away from this, we might as well hand in our jobs."

Id.

I like this part:

He enjoys beer, basketball, and practical jokes.

and hes a cat lover! OMG!
If he's single and likes loudmouthed opionated IRISH single mom somebody hook us UP!
I wont have to share the bed cuz he'll be working! I wont have to worry about laundry as long as he's got drawers aplenty! and I get to indulge in my penchant for politics and celebrity gossip! woo hoo!

[strandinthewind]

^^^

he was a R appointee - so, well, errr - put it this way, the make up sex would be stellar and often

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

^^^

he was a R appointee

maybe but he says he's not registered to either party! so there's hope yet!
and besides, after all the dirt he's seen firsthand, do you think he'd want to be affiliated with the GOP after this? I hardly think so!

as for makeup sex.....soitenly nyuk nyuk!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

So, is the Grand Jury term extended? anybody?

Yes.........

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by dissention

Yes.........

Thank GAWD. I thot the Jury term had already been extended the max amount?

[dissention]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

Thank GAWD. I thot the Jury term had already been extended the max amount?

It's a new jury that's being commissioned.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

It's a new jury that's being commissioned.

That is what I thought. But, isn't the IC still commissioned under the original commission, which gave essentially plenary auth. to Fitz.?

[irishgrl]

so the fun continues. how long does this juy have to operate? and to think Rove and Monkey boy think they can breathe easier. Dont they know you always save the best for last?

[strandinthewind]

Libby lawyer hints at defense strategy
Former Cheney aide indicted on five charges

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide has begun to outline a possible criminal defense that is a tradition in Washington scandals: A busy official immersed in important duties cannot reasonably be expected to remember details of long-ago conversations.

Friday's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby involves allegations that as Cheney's chief of staff he lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury.

Libby, who resigned immediately, was operating amid "the hectic rush of issues and events at a busy time for our government," according to a statement released by his attorney, Joseph Tate. (Watch as the prosecutor outlines the charges -- 2:49 )

"We are quite distressed the special counsel [Patrick Fitzgerald] has now sought to pursue alleged inconsistencies in Mr. Libby's recollection and those of others and to charge such inconsistencies as false statements," Tate continued.

"As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection and memory of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred."

Previous defenses varied in success
The lack-of-memory defense has worked with varying degrees of success in controversies from Iran-Contra to Whitewater.

Only one person went to prison in the Iran-Contra affair, although several people pleaded guilty to making false statements.

President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, were cleared in the Whitewater investigation of fraudulent land deals in Arkansas, a subject well-suited to a lack-of-memory defense. The land deals took place a decade before they came under criminal investigation.

Tate referred to another possible line of defense, saying that "for five years, through difficult times, Mr. Libby has done his best to serve our country." That argument worked in the administration of President George H.W. Bush in 1992, though not in court.

Bush pardoned those in government who had been implicated in the Iran-Contra criminal investigation. Among others, the pardons went to former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, whose trial was scuttled.

Libby's testimony disputed
The case against Libby: He testified that he learned from NBC correspondent Tim Russert the identity of a covert CIA officer who is the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. Russert said they never discussed it.

Fitzgerald said the indictment shows Libby learned about the CIA status of Valerie Plame from Cheney, from a senior CIA officer and from an undersecretary of state about a month before the conversation with Russert. (Full story)

But Libby told the FBI and the grand jury that he informed reporters Matt Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times information about Wilson's wife that he had gotten from other reporters -- information that Libby said he did not know to be true. Libby testified that he told the reporters he did not even know if Wilson had a wife.

But Fitzgerald said that rather than being at the end of a chain of phone calls from reporters, Libby "was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards." (Charges explained)

Indictment: Libby concerned with Wilson
The indictment points to interesting behavior by Libby that changed once Wilson went public with his criticism of the current Bush administration. The former ambassador accused the administration of twisting pre-war intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons program to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.

Early on, the indictment says, Libby became concerned about an article in The New Republic magazine that referred to Wilson, though not by name, as having gone to Africa for the CIA to investigate allegations that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger. The unnamed ambassador was quoted as saying the "Niger story was a flat-out lie."

The indictment said Libby told his deputy there would be complications at the CIA in disclosing information about the trip and that Libby could not discuss the matter on a non-secure telephone line."

After Wilson criticized the Bush administration on NBC's "Meet the Press," Libby had lunch with then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and advised him that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA and noted that such information was not widely known, the indictment said.

It said Libby proceeded to spread it more aggressively than he had previously.


Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/....ap/index.html

[irishgrl]

um: what do you suppose the point is of broadcasting your defense strategy?

so we can all laff? I know thats what Im doing