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"Harry Hope" |
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23 Feb 2006 09:15:07 AM |
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Indicted Republican Libby's defence: He forgot a lot of stuff |
From The Concord Monitor, 2/23/06:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/REPOSITORY/602230330/1013/NEWS03
Lawyers say security worries impaired Libby's memory
They argue details of CIA leak forgotten
By CAROL D. LEONNIG
The Washington Post
Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was so consumed with
pressing national security concerns in 2003 and 2004 that he
undoubtedly forgot details of conversations he had about undercover
CIA operative Valerie Plame, his defense lawyers argue in new court
filings.
Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby insist they need hundreds of
pages of classified daily briefings prepared for President Bush to
show that Libby did not intentionally lie about discussing Plame with
reporters, as prosecutors allege.
They contend that he was preoccupied with more serious matters when
the conversations took place and when investigators questioned him
months later.
Libby, 55, faces charges of committing perjury, making false
statements and obstructing justice in the investigation of whether
administration officials broke the law by disclosing Plame's identity
to the media.
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Hey, the guy forgot. You buy that, don't ya? Well, don't ya? Of course
you do.
Harry
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| Title: Re: Indicted Republican Libby's defence: He forgot a lot of stuff |
23 Feb 2006 02:09:47 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The Concord Monitor, 2/23/06:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/REPOSITORY/602230330/1013/NEWS03
Lawyers say security worries impaired Libby's memory
They argue details of CIA leak forgotten
By CAROL D. LEONNIG
The Washington Post
Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was so consumed with
pressing national security concerns in 2003 and 2004 that he
undoubtedly forgot details of conversations he had about undercover
CIA operative Valerie Plame, his defense lawyers argue in new court
filings.
Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby insist they need hundreds of
pages of classified daily briefings prepared for President Bush to
show that Libby did not intentionally lie about discussing Plame with
reporters, as prosecutors allege.
They contend that he was preoccupied with more serious matters when
the conversations took place and when investigators questioned him
months later.
Libby, 55, faces charges of committing perjury, making false
statements and obstructing justice in the investigation of whether
administration officials broke the law by disclosing Plame's identity
to the media.
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Hey, the guy forgot. You buy that, don't ya? Well, don't ya? Of course
you do.
Harry
The guy's clearly got a memory problem.
According to the Grand Jury's findings:
On or about June 11 or 12, 2003: Libby is advised by an undersecretary
of state that Wilson's wife works for the CIA and may have been
involved in the organization of his trip to Niger.
On or about June 11, 2003: Libby gets similar information about
Wilson's wife from a CIA official.
On or about June 12, 2003: ***** Cheney tells Libby that Wilson's wife
worked at the CIA in its Counterproliferation Division.
On or about June 14, 2003: Libby meets with a CIA briefer and discusses
both Wilson and Plame by name.
On or about June 23, 2003: Libby tells the New York Times' Judith
Miller that Wilson's wife might work at the CIA.
On or about July 7, 2003: Libby tells Ari Fleischer that Wilson's wife
worked at the CIA.
On or about July 8, 2003: Libby tells Miller about Wilson's wife again.
Between June 2003 and July 8, 2003: The assistant to the vice president
for public affairs tells Libby that he has learned that Wilson's wife
works at the CIA.
On July 10 or July 11, 2003: "Official A" tells Libby that he has
discussed Wilson's wife with Robert Novak.
On or about July 12, 2003: Libby confirms for Time's Matthew Cooper
that Wilson's wife works for the CIA.
On or about July 12, 2003: Libby tells Judith Miller about Wilson's
wife again.
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| Title: Re: Indicted Republican Libby's defence: He forgot a lot of stuff |
23 Feb 2006 12:18:08 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The Concord Monitor, 2/23/06:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/REPOSITORY/602230330/1013/NEWS03
Lawyers say security worries impaired Libby's memory
They argue details of CIA leak forgotten
By CAROL D. LEONNIG
The Washington Post
Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was so consumed with
pressing national security concerns in 2003 and 2004 that he
undoubtedly forgot details of conversations he had about undercover
CIA operative Valerie Plame, his defense lawyers argue in new court
filings.
Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby insist they need hundreds of
pages of classified daily briefings prepared for President Bush to
show that Libby did not intentionally lie about discussing Plame with
reporters, as prosecutors allege.
They contend that he was preoccupied with more serious matters when
the conversations took place and when investigators questioned him
months later.
Libby, 55, faces charges of committing perjury, making false
statements and obstructing justice in the investigation of whether
administration officials broke the law by disclosing Plame's identity
to the media.
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Hey, the guy forgot. You buy that, don't ya? Well, don't ya? Of course
you do.
Harry
Wow, he forgot, just like Reagan did in Iran-Contra, The Clinton's did
in File-Gate and Bush Jr did on pretty much everything of consequence.
Here's a new policy suggestion for EVERYONE who works in the White
House from this day forward: A basic memory test, with a set of
prerequisite memory-ability requirements for employment. If you later
pretend not to be able to remember to that level, you are officially
considered a liar and are chargeable with perjury.
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