I do not breathe your politics
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Whose defence is it anyway?
According to The Washington Post:
Attorneys for Vice President Cheney's former top aide urged a court yesterday to force prosecutors to turn over all the information they obtained from reporters about their confidential conversations with Bush administration sources in the course of a two-year CIA leak investigation.This is a clever tactic. A defence lawyer is surely entitled to all the information needed to construct a defence of a prosecutor's claims. The question here is, whose defence? If all the evidence is handed over to Libby's team of constitutional landsharks, it will not just be of value to Libby. Fitzgerald's investigation, particularly of Rove, is not over. The article continues: Fitzgerald has asserted that Libby is not entitled to information about all the reporters questioned in the investigation if the government does not expect to use their information or call them as witnesses in Libby's trial, the filings said.Fitzgerald is wise to the possibility that whoever is on Libby's team now will be on Cheney or Rove's team in the future. OK, probably not Rove, since he likely contributed to sinking his colleague, but you never know. And as Mr Waits cautions us, you can't unring a bell. posted by Michael at 1/27/2006 10:56:00 AM |