News media seek audio of Libby trial

[deminks]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/05/news_media_seek_audio_of_libby_trial/

WASHINGTON --Fifteen news organizations and five other groups are asking a federal judge to release audio recordings each day in the upcoming criminal trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.

The Supreme Court releases audio recordings of arguments in major cases, and lower federal courts have "started to follow the Supreme Court's lead," lawyers for the news organizations said in filings this week in U.S. District Court.

Cheney is expected to testify for his former aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and other witnesses will include NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert.

"If there were ever a case where release of audio recordings is unlikely to have any impact on the proceedings -- other than the beneficial one of more fully informing the public -- it is this one," lawyers for the news organizations stated.

[Missy Vixen]

1. I would be THRILLED

if by some wonderful occurrence, one of the CSPAN channels was allowed an audio feed out of this trial. I'll take a rebroadcast. I'd even stay up to listen to it.

>"If there were ever a case where release of audio recordings is unlikely to have any impact on the proceedings -- other than the beneficial one of more fully informing the public -- it is this one," lawyers for the news organizations stated.<

The subject matter alone should be sufficient to make the decision to release audio of the Libby trial.

Julie
still president for life of the PFEB