Judge Is Asked To Block Libby Defense From Discussing Lack of Stronger Charges
Published Tue, Oct 31 2006 12:37 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
Faced with the fact that he kept his investigation into the Valerie Plame kerfuffle going far longer than was justified, Patrick Fitzgerald is desperate to get a notch in his gun any way he can.
Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to preclude lawyers for a former White House aide facing trial for lying and obstruction of justice, I. Lewis Libby, from telling jurors that the government failed to bring more serious charges in connection with the disclosure of the identity of a CIA officer.
The special prosecutor assigned to the inquiry, Patrick Fitzgerald, asked Judge Reggie Walton to preclude defense attorneys from discussing during the trial why Mr. Libby, who served as chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was not charged with deliberately outing the CIA employee, Valerie Plame. Mr. Fitzgerald also asked to exclude any evidence about why others were not charged in the case.
Source: Judge Is Asked To Block Libby Defense From Discussing Lack of Stronger Charges - October 31, 2006 - The New York Sun
Nobody was charged with any crime related to the "outing" of Valerie Plame, and we know that Richard Armitage was the one that leaked her name, not Scooter Libby. Even the charge of lying and obstruction of justice may not hold up, and certainly would never have been possible anyway if Mr. Fitzgerald had bothered to be honest about the fact that no crime was committed in the first place and closed his investigation.
What a colossal injustice! And what an absolute waste of taxpayer money.
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