Libby's Team Plans to Subpoena Reporters & News Organizations

[kpete]

Libby's Team Plans to Subpoena Media
Lawyers have said they intend to cast a wide net to raise doubts about testimony against him. Those called will have until April to respond.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
February 25 2006


WASHINGTON — Lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said Friday that they soon planned to subpoena reporters and news organizations, and a federal judge set the stage for a showdown in late April on whether the media would have to comply with the subpoenas in order to afford the former White House aide a fair trial.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton also said a special prosecutor would have to turn over hundreds of pages of notes compiled by Libby while he was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. But Walton put off a defense request that the prosecutor turn over highly classified presidential daily briefs that Libby received while in the White House.

His lawyers have said the daily briefs were crucial to showing that Libby was immersed in matters of state and didn't intentionally mislead investigators and a grand jury, as the government has alleged.

Libby, 55, was indicted in October on perjury and obstruction charges. Prosecutors contend he lied to authorities about his role in the July 2003 unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Libby told authorities that he first learned the identity of Plame from a television journalist; the government contends that he in fact deliberately acquired and disseminated information about Plame and her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former U.S. envoy who had criticized the Bush administration over the Iraq war.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-libby25feb25,1,7650718.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[bryant69]

1. The Media made me do it?

That's reaching for straws - but it's one that they've made work in the past so maybe it will work this time. I don't mean with the judge of course - but more with the public.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Burning Water]

2. I hope the judge

lets Libby have every witness or paper he wants. Two reasons. First, the more information made public, well, the more information made public. We'll know more about how the treasonous bastards operate and what they did. Two, makes it that much sweeter when the traitor is trotted off to prison.

[H2O Man]

3. That information

would not be made public. It is part of an attempt to remove the Libby trial from public view.

[Burning Water]

5. Still, I hope the man

gets an strictly, nay pristinely, fair trial. First, as a matter of liberal principle, and secondly, well, think of the sweetness when he goes down.

[susu369]

4. Five million dollars at work

Libby defense team web site:

http://scooterlibby.org