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the real trial of the century, in symbolism, if nothing else:


Many in the hot seat at Libby trial
Members of government, media elite face uncomfortable spotlight

By Carol D. Leonnig

When Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff goes on trial Tuesday on charges of lying about the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity, members of Washington's government and media elite will be answering some embarrassing questions as well.

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's case will put on display the secret strategizing of an administration that cherry-picked information to justify war in Iraq and reporters who traded freely in gossip and protected their own interests as they worked on one of the big Washington stories of 2003.

The estimated six-week trial will pit current and former Bush administration officials against one another and, if Cheney is called as expected, will mark the first time that a sitting vice president has testified in a criminal case. It also will force the media into painful territory, with as many as 10 journalists called to testify for or against an official who was, for some of them, a confidential source.

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Drastically different versions of events
U.S. v. Libby boils down to two drastically different versions of the same events in the spring and summer of 2003. The government alleges that Libby was involved in a concerted White House effort to discredit Plame's husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, who had publicly accused the Bush administration of twisting information he provided on Iraq's nuclear weapons program. Wilson led a CIA-sponsored mission to Niger a year earlier and found no grounds for claims that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium there.


Eight days after Wilson went public with his claims, Plame's identity as a CIA officer appeared in Novak's column.

The defense says that neither Libby nor the White House sought to retaliate against Wilson and that Libby misspoke to investigators looking into the disclosure because he was overwhelmed by a crush of national security and other matters. He has said he had no motive to lie about the details or timing of conversations he had with reporters.

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What are they going to do about Sandy Burglar & the guy that puts money in his freezer with his Fried Chicken?

What was Sandy the crook stealing, what was he trying to "cover up" for Billy Blue Dress?

Has the other crook got any more money in his freezer?

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at what point will you ever be able to address a thread topic without wildly deflecting to some irrelevant non-issue?

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Harry sees the story behind the story and the story behind that.

You only know what you read PC ... you are a sheeple.

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And you're a jackass, making up deep intellectual vagueness to make it seem I'm missing some big picture... Why don't you expand on that and let us all know what the "story is behind the story", so we can all be better informed... Otherwise, you're just hot air, like your favorite poster above...

If not, here's the story behind the story: Your VP engaged in a coordinated and vindictive effort to jeapardize the NOC status of a known CIA operative overseas.... a direct violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, legislation Ronnie Reagan signed into law in 1982 and passed by House and Senate, after a CIA station chief was assassinated in Greece after being outed by Philip Agee.....

In doing so, your favorite criminal administration effectively cut out more checks and balances by sending a "shot across the bow" to the CIA, that no one would be safe if they exposed the fraudulent message... You don't wonder why the CIA has been near completely purged since 2004, do you? Well, I do... They want yes men.... Sheeple, i believe you put it...

So, if you're not going to thrill us with your pretentious "story behind the story behind the story" that we people who actually read somehow miss because we deal in facts, please give the debate up and go talk about ideology and the merits of the great crusade in another thread.

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People who don't have a selective idea of what is a broken law. You're a joke of a poster if you think this trial is trivial... May be time to wake up.

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I generally agree with the post, but the CIA is not a part of any system of checks and balances. They are under control of the POTUS.

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When is Sandy Burglar going to be arrested and charged with STEALING Government Documents.

When will Uncle Teddy be arrested and charged with MURDER :confused:

Kathleen Wiley misses her Pu$sy.

Who stole all the Silverware out of the White House.

Saddam Is Dead.