Libby verdict reached:

[Chef]

AP says top of hour announcement.

[sorry if this is a db]

 

[Double Down]

Expect some celebrity to "accidentally" OD within the hour so this gets completely buried/ignored.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I don't think there's anything to bury.
I think the ******* walks.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Expect some celebrity to "accidentally" OD within the hour so this gets completely buried/ignored.

Actually, I think the jury held out to avoid being buried along with Anna Nicole.

 

[andyouare?]

I agree. I think he goes free. They don't deliberate this long if they think he's guilty, although it seemed like every witness contradicted his timeline.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Here it comes...

 

[Freelance Hack]

Guilty on counts 1, 2 4 and 5.
Not Guilty on 3.

Counts 1-2, 4-5 are:

Obstrux of justice, providing false statements to the FBI and two counts of perjury to the grand jury.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

And that is why I don;t go to the track very much.
Sing, you sorry *******!

 

[andyouare?]

Shocking!

Next: Libby turns Sammy "the Bull" Gravano and takes down Cheney (Gotti). Implicates W and Pelosi becomes President.

 

[alleyallen]

And that is why I don;t go to the track very much.
Sing, you sorry *******!

Don't feel bad. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What was count 3?

 

[chester]

And that is why I don;t go to the track very much.
Sing, you sorry *******!

Don't feel bad. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What was count 3?

A count of making false statements.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

And that is why I don;t go to the track very much.
Sing, you sorry *******!

Don't feel bad. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What was count 3?

Count 3 was the "false statement" count regarding Matt Cooper of TIME. It was the one the jury had the most questions about and was, frankly, the weakest of the five.
Can I say for the record that I never want Patrick Fitzgerald after my sorry ass? Doesn't leak. Doesn't speak. Doesn't over-charge. Only brings what he can prove and is a bulldog on his feet.
Chicago can be proud.

 

[Duane Postum]

Guilty!

 

[Chef]

O/U on time served.....10 years.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Just FYI -- if Libby accepts a pardon, he has to testify.

 

[Chef]

If he accepts a pardon, he will never make it.

 

[JR]

Can I say for the record that I never want Patrick Fitzgerald after my sorry ass? Doesn't leak. Doesn't speak. Doesn't over-charge. Only brings what he can prove and is a bulldog on his feet.
Chicago can be proud.

The same guy who's going after Conrad Black. Good luck, Tubby!

 

[andyouare?]

I wonder if Broder still thinks we owe Karl Rove an apology.

Good story about the winners and losers here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030600629.html

"Now, the post-trial spin will gin up again. Libby's attorneys promise an appeal and declare that their guy got a raw deal from a lame judge. But it almost doesn't matter what happens now to Libby. His trial, and the investigation which led to it, raised forever the curtain on shoddy conduct within an administration that came to power promising to avoid such conduct. That is Fitzgerald's most important achievement and it is the White House's biggest shame. It's just too bad it took so many years, so many botched news reports, and so many millions of tax-payer dollars, to discover it."

 

[alleyallen]

Fen, I'm pretty sure you know where to find it...

Can you post a link to Wilson's original OP-ED piece, and Novak's piece that started this all?

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Who wants to bet he's pardoned before Ramos and Campean?