The Scooter Libby File

All the documents summited as evidence in the case. All in PDF forum on this link below. I like to give facts to make things "fare and balanced" (lol watch fox come sue me now). So feel free to read it then play judge,jury,executioner.

The Scooter Libby File

Archive Director Explains Libby Trial Documents on NPR


Washington D.C., March 7, 2007 - The declassified documents introduced as evidence during the trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, provide an almost unprecedented window into Mr. Cheney's own role as the most powerful vice president in history, according to National Security Archive director Tom Blanton this morning on NPR's Morning Edition.

To listen, click on NPR : Libby Evidence Finds Place at School's Archives

This posting also includes the actual documents discussed today.

Talking with NPR's anchor Steve Inskeep, Blanton annotated a series of trial exhibits including several in Mr. Cheney's own handwriting, ranging from his scribbles on a New York Times op-ed piece critical of the administration, to his tasking of the White House press operation to defend Libby against charges of leaking classified information.

On the latter document, the Vice President wrote "Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy the Pres that was asked to put his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others." Blanton noted that the staffer to be protected was Karl Rove, who remains President Bush's senior political advisor, and "the guy" was Scooter Libby - now convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. The document shows that Mr. Cheney's first instinct had been to say that the President had asked Libby to put his neck out, but then Cheney crossed that out and reverted to the passive voice - in fact, it was Cheney who tasked Libby with going to the press to defend the administration on this point.

No real news to me. I've held all along that Rove and Cheney are the real bad guys. Too bad we can't catch them. If the scenario was reversed, the republicans would fry them, special prosecutors out the ying, they'd be impeaching both of them Bush and Cheney in one fell swoop. The Republicans go for the juglar, the Dems have no Balls!