BREAKING NEWS: Scooter Libby verdict about to be announced

[PsyOps]

At noon today.

 

[ylexot]

Looks like guilty on four counts...

 

[dems4me]

Looks like guilty on four counts...

Heard the same thing.

 

[nachomama]

Guilty

on 4 of 5 counts.

Obstruction of Justice
Making a False Statement
2 counts of Perjury

Not Guilty on one charge of making a false statement

He faces up to 25 years in prison and $1 million in fines.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/06/cia.leak/index.html

Yeah, I'm quick on the draw.

 

[Inkpen]

OK..he did the crime, but will he do the time and/or pay the fine?

 

[Idiot]

He'll be pardoned.

 

[Bustem' Down]

OK..he did the crime, but will he do the time and/or pay the fine?

The cynic in me says no.

 

[Kerad]

He'll be pardoned.

 

[vraiblonde]

Obstruction of Justice
Making a False Statement
2 counts of Perjury

I thought those things weren't against the law anymore?

 

[Coventry17]

They weren't as long as Bush controlled Congress.

 

[ylexot]

I'm still wondering if he outed a covert agent :shrug:

 

[Pete]

He'll be pardoned.

I don't think so, I don't think he will do any real time, but i don't think he will be pardoned.

 

[SamSpade]

At noon today.

I thought it was kinda weird that the jury was still confused as of yesterday just WHAT the hell he was being tried for.


Yeah, me too.

 

[Pete]

I'm still wondering if he outed a covert agent :shrug:

The story says he wasn't even accused of it by prosecutors. They know who did it, it was Armitege.

 

[SamSpade]

I'm still wondering if he outed a covert agent :shrug:

That's just it - he didn't "out" anyone, and the person fails any definition of "covert". That's not what he was tried for.

Now the person who DID out them - he's not being tried for anything, and the Justice Department KNEW who that person was - before they began investigating.

 

[vraiblonde]

They weren't as long as Bush controlled Congress.

Are you a guy or a chick?

 

[Pete]

I thought it was kinda weird that the jury was still confused as of yesterday just WHAT the hell he was being tried for.


Yeah, me too.

He was convicted of lying in the investigation of a non crime.

 

[SamSpade]

The story says he wasn't even accused of it by prosecutors. They know who did it, it was Armitege.

What gets me is, they KNEW this before they even started.

 

[Pete]

What gets me is, they KNEW this before they even started.

And Libby deserves to go to jail for 1. Lying and 2. Lying for something he didn't even do.

 

[vraiblonde]

That's just it - he didn't "out" anyone, and the person fails any definition of "covert". That's not what he was tried for.

Now the person who DID out them - he's not being tried for anything, and the Justice Department KNEW who that person was - before they began investigating.

I do not understand this case. I've tried reading about it but the story goes round and round. I know Scooter Libby was on trial for perjury and obstruction, not for outing a supposedly covert agent. What I don't understand is the rigamarole that went into determining whether he lied or not.

Is there a good, simple source? The news sites are no help because they go round and round as well - give you a bit and piece, assuming you know the background, then you have to look up the background, which puts you right back where you started.