You don't say? Wow. What a shock that piece of news is. The fall guy, though, for whom?The jurors who huddled around two pushed-together conference tables for 10 days, meticulously filling 34 pages of facts from the trial on a large flip chart, believed that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff had been "pilloried" for a CIA leak that other top White House aides had committed along with him, according to one member of the panel.
"We're not saying that we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of," said the juror, Denis Collins. "But it seemed like he was . . . the fall guy."
More than three years ago, President Bush promised not to allow this type of leaking to go on in his White House.During the jury's days of methodical deliberations, "it was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here?' " Collins told reporters on the steps outside the federal courthouse. "Where's Rove, where's -- you know, where are these other guys?" Collins said, referring to Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, and Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy chief of staff who testimony showed had been the first person to leak Plame's name.
Moreover, Collins said, jurors believed that Libby had been carrying out a directive by his immediate boss, Cheney, to "go out and talk to reporters" to tarnish Wilson's reputation. But Collins said jurors stopped short of discussing whether the vice president specifically urged Libby to tell journalists about Plame's CIA job.
"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Ilinois. "If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of. "Here's your chance, Mr. President. For once, make your words mean something.
Dr. Fallon
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Either Bush knew about the leak, or Dick Cheney the true president of this country did what he wanted behind Bushs back. I'm inclined to believe Bush knew about the leak long ago and agreed that Valerie Plames name be leaked to the press in order to strike out against Joe Wilson for his writing an article that pretty much spelled out Bush and company were lying about WMD's in Iraq. We were lied to about the war in Iraq and they tried to shut up people who knew it was all lies.
Tragic.
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