JUST in from Keith Olbermann's newsletter:

[babylonsister]

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/03/libby_verdict_i.html#more

JUST in from Keith Olbermann's newsletter:

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was accused of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters. He was acquitted of one count of lying to the FBI. Fitzgerald says Libby learned about Plame from Cheney and other officials in June 2003 and relayed it to reporters. Libby's defense team argued that Libby recalled his conversations to the best of his ability. Any inaccuracies he made to the FBI or a federal grand jury were the result of a faulty memory, attorneys said. Key to several charges were Libby's recollections of conversations he had with Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press" and former Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper. During the trial, prosecutors said Libby made up a ludicrous lie to save his job during the CIA leak investigation by telling investigators he'd forgotten Cheney told him about the CIA status of Wilson's wife. Cheney had passed the information to Libby more than a month before Plame's identity was outed by conservative columnist Robert Novak.

Following are the individual charges and their corresponding verdicts:

Obstruction of justice: GUILTY

False statements to FBI investigators (Russert conversation): GUILTY

False statement to FBI investigators (Cooper conversation): NOT GUILTY

Perjury to the grand jury (Russert conversation): GUILTY

Perjury to the grand jury (Cooper conversation): GUILTY

MSNBC story

Ambassador Joe Wilson and John Dean will join Keith tonight.

[calimary]

1. Does that mean Keith cut his vacation short?

I hope so - nothing I'd enjoy watching more than him anchoring this story's coverage and interviewing those two. He should be anchoring the whole frickin' DAY, today.

BTW - if anybody's been watching MSNBC, anybody notice how somber chris matthews looks? If I didn't know better, I'd say HE was the one who just got convicted. He looks extraordinarily serious and dour. He looks as though he, personally, just received some very bad news. I've never seen him look that bad, or that glum.

[babylonsister]

2. I imagine he has. RE: Matthews, I don't know what he has to be dour

about. I'm more interested in what Tucker and Feinman have to say; they both at one time or another pooh-poohed this whole trial. Who's sorry now?!

[Laurab]

3. Apparently he has

"Joe Wilson will be joining Keith" - this should be good!

[monmouth]

4. I think Chris may be looking dour because of the "end result of the lies." He

has been very upset with the treatment of the Vets at Walter Reed, and this is the icing on the cake or a stepping stone to an unwarranted war. Chris can't believe or has trouble believing that these evil people could do such a thing. I don't think he's naive, he's been in town too long, but this is outrageous, they've been caught and Matthews has had the truth slap him in the face.

[Ninja Jordan]

7. But he still loves his boyfriend Guiliani.

[Tempest]

5. The jury foreman said Libby was told about Plame nine times

And that Libby claiming he didn't remember the nine times wasn't credible.

[Ninja Jordan]

6. Bad week to be on vacation.

Say no to anamotronic blonde newsanchors.

[TheBaldyMan]

8. What's wrong with her, can't blonde women anchor newsdesks?

I can think of several women newscasters that do a great job, both at anchoring and reporting.