Frogmarch alert: Libby in court Thursday, will claim "I forgot"

[warrens]

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's long-time chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who resigned last week after being indicted in a CIA leak investigation, is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday for an arraignment, a court official said Monday.

Libby, who was indicted on Friday on charges of obstructing justice, perjury and making false statements, has promised a vigorous defense.

As part of his strategy, Libby is expected to argue that any incorrect information he provided to federal investigators or the grand jury was the result of lapses in memory, rather than intentional lies, according to Libby's lawyer and other attorneys involved in the case.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9877720/

[stopbush]

1. "Libby's lawyer - actor Steve Martin - said..." eom

[rock]

3. Thanks for reminding me

that very funny skit!

[Epiphany4z]

2. It is going to be a busy week

Libby in court a new SC Quack and doesn't Delay have court again on the 1st?

[wtmusic]

4. "I don't recall"

From the victim of several depositions--the first thing a good lawyer will counsel you to do, if there is any doubt as to the accuracy of your recollections, is respond:

"I don't recall."

Libby is either very stupid, has bad counsel, or is an arrogant prick who thought he could get away with trashing a political opponent (we can rule out the first two).

[Stephanie]

6. If he didn't recall, then why the elaborate stories?

Why the tortured explanations of his thinking at the time? Where did all that come from? From his faulty memory? Oh, Your Honor, I'm sorry, I erroneously recalled that at the time I heard Plame's name I thought, 'wow, this is the first time I'm hearing Wilson's wife is CIA.' That whole elaborate story is just a figment of my faulty memory.

[cassiepriam]

13. Yes, if he didn't remember why not just say that in the first place?

Why yack up a storm, then when busted say I forgot everything?

[Neocondriac]

5. The light finally went off......

"the crutches"....they pre-empt frog marching."Look at those mean nasty men frog marching poor Scooter, he's on crutches for goodness sake"

[Ian David]

9. Cheney made Libby donate arteries for another bypass

They couldn't take a graft from Cheney's own legs (you know, his knees are having heart-attacks too) so Cheney ordered Scooter to give-up a few inches of arteries from his leg.

What, wouldn't you do that for YOUR boss?

[yellowcanine]

7. Will he be finger printed and mug shot? If Bush is the Ace of Spades what

is Libby - the Jack of Hearts?

[SillyGoose]

8. I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question, but does he

enter a plea at the arraignment on Thursday or does that come at a later hearing?

[warrens]

12. He'll probably be asked to enter a plea

But the initial arraignment is to set bail, if any, and to notify him formally of the charges against him. And of course, to give him an opportunity to run into the courthouse with a raincoat over his head.

[SillyGoose]

14. Thanks for answering my question. I'm looking forward to the raincoat

shots.

:evilgrin:

[FreedomAngel82]

10. He can't play that card

Fitzgerald said that the next jury will get transcripts from the previous jury. So there goes that plan.

[NYC Liberal]

11. That last guy who tried that was Reagan. He got Alzheimer's.

[cassiepriam]

15. is it just me, or does babs look really ill in NYC's pic here?

[NYC Liberal]

16. That was her face after the Astros just lost the WS