In case anyone was wondering about the Libby trial and actually relies on me to tell them about it (hah!), it turns out that Libby has been found guilty on four out of five counts, innocent on the predicted weakest charge, count #3. This is obviously a huge victory for the prosecution. FDL's servers are way overloaded now, so I've been following the thread in the discussions at the Daily Kos, where people have been watching CNN.
What this means is that the legal system has now officially decided that Libby's grand jury testimony was indeed a dishonest attempt at obfuscation. Now that it's non-credibility has been established, it's possible that further charges may follow. It's too bad that I. Lewis Libby and company couldn't have been indicted for something bigger, like war crimes, but often you get the baddies when they trip up.
It's not that we depend on you to break the news to us - we just depend on you to analyze it for us! ;)
Posted by: Transit Rage | March 06, 2007 at 06:23 PM
An obfuscation of what? No crime was committed, Fitzgerald already determined that. He was guilty of lying about a non-crime.
Perhaps Libby should have lied about having an affair while stuffing top secret documents in his pants. He'd likely be free now.
Posted by: Brian | March 06, 2007 at 08:24 PM
I looked up a source for this "No crime was committed" claim and found only the fact that Fitzgerald didn't indict certain individuals. That says nothing about whether or not a crime was committed. One thing that the jury has found that *was* committed was the crime of obstruction of justice. The point of obstructing justice in this case is to make it difficult to determine whether a crime was committed...
Posted by: Mandos | March 06, 2007 at 08:31 PM