Libby seeks jurors who trust Cheney

[hadrons]

WASHINGTON - A potential juror in the perjury trial of former White House aide "Scooter" Libby was allowed to remain in the jury pool Wednesday after saying she would be impartial and put aside her tepid impression of Vice President Dick Cheney, an expected defense witness.

"I'm not particularly impressed with a lot of his manners of being, but I can't speak to his credibility," said the woman, who works for the Department of Health and Human Services, as jury selection continued for a second day.

Cheney's credibility has emerged as a key issue, with defense lawyers looking for a panel that can trust the vice president, expected to testify on behalf of Libby, his former chief of staff. Libby is accused of lying to investigators about his conversations with journalists about an outed CIA officer.

Libby's attorneys say it's critical they know whether potential jurors view the vice president as credible. Two people who expressed doubts about that were dismissed from the jury pool Tuesday.

"I don't have the highest opinion of him," a young financial analyst said. "If I had to rank people as to credibility, I wouldn't put him at the top of the list."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_trial

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Ha ha ha

with a 16% approval rating in the US overall, how many people in DC do you think will truthfully answer the question yes?

[fooj]

2. Good luck with that...

BWAHAHAHAHA!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Good luck Scooter!

[Postman]

4. Maybe they should have a change of venue to Saudi Arabia...

n/t

[Betty]

5. the only people who trust cheney

would have to be brain dead.

[LibDemAlways]

6. The people quoted there were really going easy on the

evil old fart. Imagine the response if a DUer was asked about Cheney's credibility.

Where the hell are they going to find 12 people who trust him? What a joke.

[Akoto]

7. Yes, lets all trust Emperor Palpatine. n/t

[soothsayer]

8. yeah,but if all these intelligent jurors get canned, only the stupid

who BELIEVE the bfee will remain. That's a problem, isn't it?

[hippiechick]

9. I remember during the 2000 campaign ...

... my boss at the time, who I thought was a reasonably intelligent woman, who's 20 year old SON is/was a MARINE, said she voted for Shrimpy because she "likes Cheney" and thought "he would do a good job". (She's long since left the company so I have no idea on the status of her son).

OMG. :wow:

I replied that if they got elected, we would have troops somewhere within 18 months, and she better hope her son isn't one of them.

Welllll ... War on Terra, anyone? :freak:

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I don't think you can use that criterium to indefinitely excuse potential

jurors from the panel.

[Virginian]

11. The Jury pool is made up of DC residents.

Good luck finding people who LIKE Cheney among DC residents.

Most likely, potential jurers may not know much about him because they are too busy raising their children and earning a living to follow the news.

Unlikely to find jurors who work on Capitol Hill because most of them are residents of their home states and not DC residents.

If DC is like VA, jury pool comes from registered VOTERS. How did DC vote in the last election? (rhetorical)