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Libby Defense May Highlight Infighting, by Pete Yost, Associated Press, March 18, 2006

Finally we get some more news about the Plame issue. Libby will have a new defense strategy that the administration most certainly isn't going to like: "There was so much other recrimination going on that I coudn't possbily have remembered something so comparatively insignificant as outing a NOC."

New legal documents raise the potential that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial could turn into a political embarrassment for the Bush administration by focusing on whether the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

In a court filing late Friday night, Libby's legal team said that in June and July 2003, the status of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame was at most a peripheral issue to "the finger-pointing that went on within the executive branch about who was to blame" for the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.

"If the jury learns this background information" about finger-pointing, "and also understands Mr. Libby's additional focus on urgent national security matters, the jury will more easily appreciate how Mr. Libby may have forgotten or misremembered ... snippets of conversation" about Plame's status, the defense lawyers said.

Obviously, Scooter is not taking this lying down, and he will not be the sacrificial lamb for whatever administration higher-ups authorized this.

Further reading: Frontpage poster SusanG at Daily Kos comments on this issue.

Posted by hekebolos on March 18, 2006 12:52 PM |

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