FAUX >> Libby lawyer: Woodward testimony a 'bombshell' for CIA leak case

[sabra]

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Libby lawyer: Woodward testimony a 'bombshell' for CIA leak case
Fox News


WASHINGTON — Testimony by Washington Post editor Bob Woodward in the CIA leak case is a bombshell to the special prosecutor's case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, an attorney for Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff told FOX News on Wednesday.

The disclosure by Woodward in Wednesday's Post shows that Libby was not the first government official to tell a reporter the secret identity of a CIA operative, said Ted Wells, one of Libby's lawyers.

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It is now clear that Mr. Libby's allegation by his lawyers that his memory was simply faulty makes a lot more sense now that we know that Bob Woodward was in fact the first person to receive that information not from Mr. Libby, but from another, apparently former, government official," said attorney Joe DiGenova.

In the announcement of the indictment against Libby, Fitzgerald asserted that no one really knew Wilson's wife worked at the CIA until Libby disclosed it. In effect, Libby started the whole thing.

"He 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, under oath and repeatedly," Fitzgerald said.

Like a record...

[NorCalDem]

1. Even if Libby's lawyer's assertion is correct

so what!

The indictment was for lying! (you know, Perjury!!!!!)

Whether or not he was the "first" doesn't matter. Are these people really that stupid?

Edited to answer my own question:
Yes they are!

[peacetalksforall]

2. X told Libby, X told Hadley. Who is X? Is it the same X?

Has Hadley testified?

Hadley reported to Rice.

Rice is WHIG.

Is Whig our X - jointly - each doing their own little show with journalists depending who they talk to on a regular basis?

[AnnInLa]

3. Why it is not a bombshell....Libby's lawyer lied today

via Olbermann:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9665308/#051116a

Wells issued a statement at midday, the key passage of which concludes that Woodward’s "disclosure shows that Mr. Fitzgerald’s statement at his press conference of October 28, 2005 that Mr. Libby was the first government official to tell a reporter about Mr. Wilson’s wife was totally inaccurate."

But Fitzgerald never said that.

The transcript of Fitzgerald’s news conference is not disputed — nobody from his office has called up trying to get it altered after the fact. On October 28, Fitzgerald actually said: "Mr. Libby was the first government official known to have told a reporter" about Ambassador Joe Wilson’s wife.

"The first government official known to have told…" is a huge difference from "The first government official to tell…"

Even if the idea that somebody else in the administration might’ve beaten Libby to the leaking punch is relevant to a trial on five counts of lying, the cornerstone of the Wells statement is erroneous — at best, a serious misinterpretation. Fitzgerald was clearly and meticulously leaving his case open in case an earlier leaker later turned up — as evidently he just did.

much more....required reading!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Desperate nonsense

This says nothing about Libby's lies, and the notion that the faulty memory defense is strengthened by this is simply laughable. DiGenova should be ashamed of himself.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

5. Since the article is quoting

Joe DiGenova, GOP mouthpiece extraordinaire, please forgive me if I discount the entire thing.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. DiGenova?

Oh please! :eyes: LOL! :rofl:

[Trillo]

7. Hasn't it been theorized that one of Fitgerald's tactics

would be to flush out more conspirators by driving the indictment and prosecution wedge between them?

It would seem that this view, however controversial it may or may not have been, is correct. The liars are coming out of the Woodwork now.

The corporate media appears complicit.

[Kierkegaard]

8. One night I went to sleep

and had a horrible nightmare. I was in a dark, strange place and all around me seemed unfamiliar. Truth was strictly optional, even undesirable. Greed trumped any other human 'quality.' Lives were bought and sold at the discretion of madmen. The greatest nation that had ever existed was collapsing in upon itself, under the weight of its own confusion, and there didn't seem to be anything to stop it from completing it's deadly course. Contradictions, obfuscations, secrets and lies. Then I realized that I wasn't really dreaming. Welcome to 21st century America.