Non-Issue Trial Can’t Find Non-Biased Jurors
Libby trial scratching around for jurors.
Judge Reggie B. Walton said from the bench, “We’re having trouble finding anyone who doesn’t think this case is entirely full of crap and a waste of taxpayers’ money.”
Wait a minute, I’m sorry. That’s not what he said at all.
He chuckled when he learned that everyone in his jury pool either works for the government or the media.
Libby is on trial because nearly $2 million was spent trying to prove that Vice President Dick Cheney, Libby’s boss, was the evil manipulator responsible for revealing the name of a CIA analyst whose name was not a legally protected secret. The probe found that Libby failed to correctly remember exactly what he had said about a matter he had nothing to do with, as it was actually someone else, Richard Armitage at State, who allowed this travesty to continue for two years, in the course of which a newspaper reporter was jailed, large numbers of people were harrassed and taxpayers’ money was wasted, before Armitage admitted that he was the one who revealed Valerie Plame’s non-secret identity to Robert Novak.
All of this was necessary of course because Bush lied, except that he didn’t. Some Niger government officials in fact lied to Joe Wilson, Plame’s husband and errand boy. Because, Saddam Hussein’s agents did in fact want to buy uranium ore in Africa. And because of this Libby, and you, the taxpaying public, must be made to pay.
Libby, like the judge, also finds it laughable. Check the end of the article linked above for a description of him laughing and burying his head in his hands.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:17 am on Thursday, January 18, 2007
6 Responses to “Non-Issue Trial Can’t Find Non-Biased Jurors”
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January 18th, 2007 at 1:43 am
A whole $2 million of the taxpayers money was wasted…OMFG.
That money could gone towards spreadin’ democracy in Iraq an extra…4 minutes.
January 18th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Jules, that was, hands down, the most concise and clear iteration of the Plume affair that I’ve read. You oughta be a reporter!
alphie:
You’ve got only one tune and it’s a bore.
January 18th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Libby’s alleged crimes certainly seem more serious than the two Bill Clinton was impeached for, Salty.
It’s almost like some people allow politics to cloud their sense of judgement.
January 18th, 2007 at 8:17 am
More serious than intentionally committing perjury in testimony in a Federal investigation?
January 18th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Clinton committed perjury in sworn testimony in front of a federal grand jury. He out to have had criminal charges leveled, just as anyone else who committed perjury. The charge against Libby is that he allegedly lied to the FBI.
Having said all of that, what the hell does Libby’s trial have to do with Clinton? “alphie”: the simpleton in charge of non sequiturs. Who is it again that allows politics to cloud their sense of judgment?
January 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Someone stole the “ugh” out of the “ought” in “He ought to have had…” When speaking about Clinton, one must always remember to keep the “ugh”.