BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - OT--Charged with lying about a crime that wasn't committed?

In article . net,
says...

"jps" wrote in message
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In article . net,
says...

"jps" wrote in message
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His testimony doesn't square with his own notes, contemporaneously
recorded when Cheney told him about Valerie Plame.

He testified that Russert told him about Plame...not the other way
around.

And his notes show that Cheney told him about Plame at least several
weeks prior to Russert.

So? He did not testify that he hadn't heard it before. He said that he
could not recall where he first heard it. But he's not being charged for
forgetting where he heard it. He's being charged for obstruction of justice
and perjury because he told the FBI and grand jury that Russert first
mentioned Plame to him...not the other way around.

He also testified that he told Russert that he didn't know it to be true
or
not. Did he lie to Russert? Perhaps.

Who care? Folks in this administration lie all the time.

Lying to reporters that have it in for you is not really lying. It's just a
technique for throwing the hyenas off the scent.

Did he lie to Fitzgerald? Maybe

Oh yeah. Sho enoff.

It's amazing that you can conclude that without seeing any of the Grand jury
evidence and without a trial. And I thought you liberals were concerned
about civil rights and due process and all that stuff.

not. But is it a crime to lie to a news reporter?

No, and he's not being charged for lying to a news reporter. He's being
charged for lying to the investigators of the leak.

Like I said, if you read the indictment, the perjury charges stem from what
he told the FBI and the grand jury about his conversation with Russert, and
what Russert told the Grand Jury. Perhaps Russert is lying.

Especially a reporter who
is fishing for a story by pretending to know the answer to the questions
he's asking?

Oh jeez, Scooter went to college and became a lawyer. He's been at the
top of his game for quite some time. You feel sorry for him because a
reporter asked him leading questions?

Libby knew what Russert was doing, and that's why he neither confirmed nor
denied Russerts claim that "all the media knew" Wilson's wife was with CIA.
Of course, Libby never counted on Russert lying to a grand jury about their
conversation.

"Could not recall"????

You've got to be kidding. He didn't have time to review his own notes
before testifying in front of a Grand Jury?

Man, you are willing to suspend disbelief in a heartbeat when it
involves another Republican.

jps