Libby Wants to Use Classified Evidence

[kpete]

Libby Wants to Use Classified Evidence By TONI LOCY, Associated Press Writer
27 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday made their first request to use classified evidence at his trial, launching a highly secretive court process that could bog down the case.

In the filings made under seal in federal court, lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby put the judge and prosecutors on notice that they want a jury to hear evidence the government now says is classified.

Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, was indicted last year on charges that he lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how he learned CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and when he subsequently told reporters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060123/ap_on_go_ot/cia_leak

[babylonsister]

1. Let me guess; they'll stall for 3 years and then he'll get pardoned. nt

[dave29]

2. these guys just can't stop sharing classified materials

Let me guess: it's an NSA recording of Patrick Fitzgerald saying Libby is a moron

[madokie]

4. If I was a betting man I'd bet that none of them will have anything

to do with libby but who will ever know. they're classified, be setting a bad precedent

[madokie]

3. the regime will withhold the documents,libby will claim he can't

get a fair trial so they will have to drop the charges, libby goes back to the whitehouse.

[davidinalameda]

5. me thinks somone may be pissed for being kicked to the curb

no?