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Libby Update: "Great Stuff" To Be Released
Let the media frenzy begin:
The federal judge presiding over the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby ruled this morning that the public is entitled to hear audiotapes of Libby's testimony before the grand jury that investigated the 2003 leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity....Defense attorney William H. Jeffress Jr. argued this morning that access to Libby's grand jury testimony by the public and the press should be restricted to written transcripts, not the tapes themselves.
"It is great stuff, and all of the radio stations and television stations will be broadcasting soundbites," Jeffress said. "There will be commentary."
Jeffress noted that the judge has warned jurors to avoid all news during the trial. Still, Jeffress said, the news generated by the tapes -- and the public buzz about them -- could be so extreme that there was a risk jurors could accidentally encounter it, perhaps while riding buses or the Metro.
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Comments (7)
Garth wrote on February 5, 2007 5:52 PM:"There will be commentary." - I think that sums up their fears pretty well on many levels.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on February 5, 2007 6:08 PM:. . . and so I woke up early this morning at the crack o' dawn and ran down stairs, screaming all the way "Mommy! Mommy! It's Fitzmas! It's Fitzmas! Mommy! Fitzmas is here!"
. . . and it was good. Really good.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on February 5, 2007 6:09 PM:. . . and so I woke up early this morning at the crack o' dawn and ran down stairs, screaming all the way "Mommy! Mommy! It's Fitzmas! It's Fitzmas! Mommy! Fitzmas is here!"
. . . and it was good. Really good.
William Morkill wrote on February 5, 2007 9:02 PM:To hell with the Super Bowl. Put Cheny on the stand.
SeeDee wrote on February 5, 2007 10:52 PM:In spite of a wish to think that maybe, just maybe, we'll see a REAL, HONEST-TO-GOODNESS, investigation, indictments, and a no-holds-barred trial, I keep having this conviction intrude on my wishes that it will all be 'much ado about nothing'.
I mean... after the fake 9/11 investigation, the surface-scratch of a look into 'intelligence' failures and manipulations RE the Iraq war, and the phony import attached to the recent ISG recommendations (which are being ignored), why should anyone expect anything of substance to come out of the Plame-outing trial?
psyopswatcher wrote on February 6, 2007 11:32 AM:"... a risk jurors could accidentally encounter it, perhaps while riding buses or the Metro."
Then get them a limo service. You know, like the one the poker boys and Cunningham used--at govt expense.
It's about time that John Q. and Jane Public get to hear what we're paying for.
Herewood wrote on February 6, 2007 12:01 PM:"... a risk jurors could accidentally encounter it, perhaps while riding buses or the Metro."
Then get them a limo service. You know, like the one the poker boys and Cunningham used--at govt expense.
They can have limos but I ain't paying for hookers.