Now all his lawyers have to do is kick Libby’s appeal down the road to sometime after January 2009, so that Bush can pardon him as he he is leaving office — just like his father pardoned Cap Weinberger on his way out the door:
Libby is guilty. And he’s going to be found guilty. The jury might not convict him on all counts, but he has no chance of surviving the perjury count that was proved beyond a reasonable doubt with Tim Russert’s testimony.
The multi-million dollar defense, which provided no defense at all, did not call Libby to the witness stand for one very simple reason: Libby is very very guilty. Publicly, defense lawyers cling to the text book theory that the defendant has no burden of proof and that no negative inference should ever be taken when a defendant doesn’t defend himself on the witness stand. Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to put him on the stand is that he is soooo guilty that every answer he gives after his name will eradicate any shred of reasonable doubt. Think about it. Your whole life is at stake in the outcome of a criminal trial. You’re innocent. And you don’t testify in your own defense? …
Libby’s defense gave up before the opening statements in the trial. They always knew Libby was too guilty to put on the witness stand. And they were never going to call the Vice President. Telling the judge that they were going to call Libby and Cheney was just a mirage they were trying to create to misdirect Patrick Fitzgerald’s focus. I’d be shocked if Fitzgerald was fooled for even a second.
Beg to disagree with your comments about Libby being found guilty.
Don’t think that is going to happen. That comment is based on the stunt the jurors pulled on VD day–February 14.
All the jurors entered the courtroom wearing the same red-colored T-shirt that had a white heart on the front.
Everyone had a good laugh, even the judge.
Does this sound like a jury getting ready to convict a guilty man?
Of course Libby is guilty, along with Cheney, Rove and Bush, but NOTHING WILL HAPPEN except a pardon of Libby before Bush leaves. They are all so crooked and corrupt that they have subverted the entire Democratic Process. This is what happens under fascist dictatorships and theocracy.