Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Woodward spills a few beans
So now we know from the WaPo and other sources that someone besides Libby and Rove was chattering about classified information to anyone who would listen and let him or her get away with it. And this additional reporter source will be the basis of Irve's new legal defense.As reported in the NY Times:
Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former White House official indicted on perjury charges, plan to seek testimony from journalists beyond those cited in the indictment and will probably challenge government agreements limiting their grand jury testimony, people involved in the case said Tuesday.So we can look forward to a stonewall using the court system, at best. Three years dragging through the courts and then Our Dear Embattled Leader leaves office and retires to Bahrain with Michael Jackson.
"That's clearly going to be part of the strategy - to get access to all the relevant records and determine what did the media really know," said a lawyer close to the defense who spoke on condition of anonymity............
..........The prospect of another legal battle over access to reporters' records "could be worse for the media" than the Miller showdown, said Lucy Dalglish, head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "You now have a situation where you have a government investigation hung completely on testimony from journalists, with journalists turned into witnesses, and that is a scary notion."
Ms. Dalglish said that unlike the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who was restricted partly by Justice Department regulations on subpoenaing reporters' notes, Mr. Libby's defense team will not be bound by those same rules.
"This is a very unsettling case, and it could take years in the courts to resolve," she said.
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