Report: Libby to Lie About His Lying at Trial

September 24, 2006

Yes, the Washington Post reports that Scooter "Betray America for the Bushevik/Cheney Team" Libby is going to testify at his own trial, claiming he never lied -- as in committed perjury. That is because, he will claim, he was too busy with important top-secret business to remember outing a CIA operative who specialized in tracking illicit Weapons of Mass Destruction.

In short, Libby will claim that he was too busy conducting a war to rid a nation of Weapons of Mass Destruction that didn't exist to recall helping to "neutralize" a CIA specialist in whether or not Iraq and Iran had Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Isn't that sort of the "I was so busy trying to protect America that I can't remember trying to help weaken it" defense?

Well you can read more here.

Of course, the goal of Libby's attorneys is to "gray mail" the case, so that Libby will demand to use so many classified documents that the case will be hobbled down.

And on another note, in a New York Daily News sports column of all places, we found this insightful bit of wisdom:

"The government of George Bush, which will leak the name of a CIA operative named Valerie Plame when it suits its purposes, now wants Fainaru-Wada and Williams in jail because they won't reveal the names of the person or persons the government says leaked them grand jury testimony. It is always worth pointing out that if you ran the country the way Bush and his people do, you wouldn't want to encourage whistleblowers, either."

Thank you sports columnist Mike Lupica for that one.

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