Comments on: Cooper’s Tale: Libby Trial 1.31 Post 4 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/ Rory O'Connor's blog Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:35:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Greg D http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-64003 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:14:11 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-64003 weldon, A point. I think, however, it would have a lot more weight if the other gov't witnesses were more credible. The amount of "forgetting" and later "remembering" they've been doing is quite impressive. Not having read the 2/1 transcripts yet (so this could change), I'd say that, were I the judge, at this point I'd probably grant a defense motion for a summary dismissal. weldon,

A point. I think, however, it would have a lot more weight if the other gov’t witnesses were more credible. The amount of “forgetting” and later “remembering” they’ve been doing is quite impressive. Not having read the 2/1 transcripts yet (so this could change), I’d say that, were I the judge, at this point I’d probably grant a defense motion for a summary dismissal.

]]> by: Spartacus http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-64002 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:06:17 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-64002 Weldon: Two of the five charges against Libby involve JUST the one phone conversation with Cooper. Libby was charged with one count of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for supposedly telling Cooper about Plame, and then denying it. The total evidence for the criminal charges against Libby is Cooper's claim that Libby said to him “Yeah, I’ve heard that too” after Cooper brought up the subject. Weldon: Two of the five charges against Libby involve JUST the one phone conversation with Cooper. Libby was charged with one count of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for supposedly telling Cooper about Plame, and then denying it. The total evidence for the criminal charges against Libby is Cooper’s claim that Libby said to him “Yeah, I’ve heard that too” after Cooper brought up the subject.

]]> by: weldon http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-63991 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:49:55 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-63991 Greg: as stand-alone testimony, it wouldn't be worth much. Coming on top of four government officials who say they told Libby about Wilson, another who says Libby told him, yet another who says Libby wanted info on how to find a paper trail if the CIA gave a job to an employee's spouse, and, he said with a shudder, Judy Miller's testimony about her Libby conversations, it adds weight. How credible is it that after obsessing about Wilson for nearly a month and after being told not once, not twice, not thrice but four times, by people in the CIA, the state department and his own office, that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and telling Ari Fleischer the same thing a few days before talking with Cooper, he would have forgotten where he heard it? Greg: as stand-alone testimony, it wouldn’t be worth much. Coming on top of four government officials who say they told Libby about Wilson, another who says Libby told him, yet another who says Libby wanted info on how to find a paper trail if the CIA gave a job to an employee’s spouse, and, he said with a shudder, Judy Miller’s testimony about her Libby conversations, it adds weight. How credible is it that after obsessing about Wilson for nearly a month and after being told not once, not twice, not thrice but four times, by people in the CIA, the state department and his own office, that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA, and telling Ari Fleischer the same thing a few days before talking with Cooper, he would have forgotten where he heard it?

]]> by: tryggth http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-63989 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:18:43 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-63989 ------------------- Walton: Did Dickerson tell you what he had heard in Africa? Cooper: Yes. ------------------- Well, brief if not exactly informative. ——————-
Walton: Did Dickerson tell you what he had heard in Africa?

Cooper: Yes.
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Well, brief if not exactly informative.

]]> by: Greg D http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-63988 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:10:09 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/01/31/coopers-tale-libby-trial-131-post-4/#comment-63988 You know, “Yeah, I’ve heard that too” is a pretty weak reed on which to impale Libby. Libby had heard that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. It didn't make an impression on him. Cooper then brings it up. It sparks that original memory, but, again, it's no big deal. So both bits of information fade away from memory. Why is that hard to believe? You know, “Yeah, I’ve heard that too” is a pretty weak reed on which to impale Libby. Libby had heard that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA. It didn’t make an impression on him. Cooper then brings it up. It sparks that original memory, but, again, it’s no big deal.

So both bits of information fade away from memory. Why is that hard to believe?

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