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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: mph who wrote (55511)3/7/2007 7:48:00 AM
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<< "Sounds to me like the defense strategy failed.
I'm referring to their suggestion that Libby was the *fall guy*." >>

That threw me for a loop when they implied that in their opening arguments. It didn't make any sense at all given what we already knew at the time.

<< "I always wondered about that because the whole notion suggests
that someone was hiding something or had some nefarious plot.
Flies in the face of a simple claim of poor memory." >>

Exactly. And it made even less sense when they never seemed to return to that theme as the trial unfolded. As far as I know they never attempted to introduce any evidence to back that theory.

However, now that the trial is over & that juror (the journalist) spoke publicly, I think that the Libby team sensed that the jury was likely a bunch of libs (like DUH! the trial was in DC) not much different than those we deal with here on SI. So it may have been an attempt to get sympathy from the jury that Libby was hung out to dry by the Eeeevil Bush/Cheney regime. Listening to him it became clear that many jurors wanted to go after Bush/Cheney in a big way (despite the complete lack of evidence presented at the trial of any wrongdoing).
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