Hume again declared Libby did not commit the "actual leak" in Plame case
SUMMARY: On January 18, Brit Hume again asserted as fact
that "Scooter" Libby did not commit the "actual leak" of
Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA officer. The day before, Hume had
stated that Libby was "not responsible" for leaking the information.
However, prosecutors allege that Libby did discuss Plame's CIA employment with
Judith Miller before it was made public; Miller herself confirmed this.
On the January 18 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host and Fox News Washington bureau managing editor Brit Hume asserted as fact that former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby had not committed the "actual leak [of Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA officer], which was done, we now know, by someone else." As Media Matters for America documented, Hume asserted on the January 17 edition of Special Report that Libby was "not responsible" for leaking the information that Plame was a CIA officer. However, according to the indictment, Libby discussed Plame's CIA employment with then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller before Plame's employment was publicly revealed by Robert Novak in a July 14, 2003, column.
As Media Matters has noted, Plame is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, who, in a July 6, 2003, New York Times op-ed, cast doubt on President Bush's claims that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium from Niger. Novak's column revealing Plame's CIA employment was based on information from then-deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, which was allegedly confirmed by White House senior adviser Karl Rove.
While Libby did not divulge Plame's identity to Novak, prosecutors have alleged that Libby did discuss Plame's CIA employment with Miller on three occasions prior to the publication of Novak's column. As Media Matters has noted, the indictment special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald obtained against Libby on October 28, 2005, asserts that Libby mentioned Plame's CIA employment to Miller on June 23, 2003, July 8, 2003, and July 12, 2003. After sitting in jail for 85 days, Miller herself identified Libby as her source for the information on Plame.
From the January 18 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
HUME: Jury selection in the perjury trial of former White House aide "Scooter" Libby will continue on Monday. Attorneys and the federal judge have found 30 qualified jurors for a pool that will require 36. So far, 19 people have been excused, most of them for bias against President Bush or his administration. Judge Reggie Walton says, given how slowly the process is going, jury selection could even continue into next Tuesday.
Libby is accused of lying to a grand jury about his knowledge and conversations in the leak of the name of a CIA employee, though he is not accused of the actual leak, which was done, we now know, by someone else.
Yes he did, he just didn't do the leak to Novak. And more importantly, Hume, Fitzgerald has already made it known that he was hamstrung by this kind of perjury, because lies keep him from being able to obtain sufficient proof of a felonious disclosure of the agent's identity to carry the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. So if Libby (who got caught) lies, and everyone else denies being directed by Chenney to make the disclosure to Novak and others, he cannot get a conviction, regardless of what the truth may be. That is why it is so imperative to convict Libby, so officials don't lie to cover the bosses. When you catch them lying to cover their boss, put them in jail.
The "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard is proper for deciding whether to jail Chenney and Armitage and others, but that is not the standard required for public condemnation and for revelation in the media, where the greatest failure in this episode continues to exist.
Once a liar always a liar, and Hume sure does love to lie.
Carry that water, Brit, make all the right statements for your Lords and Masters in the WH spin factory.
Good dog! Woof, woof!
"Lying under oath to a grand jury and obstructing justice is not a REAL crime but lying about your sex life under oath IS."
- The First Commandment of Right Wing Spin
I am sure you were on board with the "Lying to the grand jury about sex is ok and expected".
with the government asking about your sex life ?
If so, why do you hate America?
did not do most of the actual killing. What's your point, Brit?
When a leak occurs you can't depend on Depends. The adult diaper was given to me by someone in the Vice President's office who's name I can't recall. The actual leak could have come from anywhere. Where it went after that, I have no idea.
If Brit protests to much, keep looking.
Who Hume. Interesting. Anyway, if Libby did not disclose Flame's identity then maybe you should come forward and tell us who did.
Or you could wait for an indictment.
I meant "called to testify," not indictment.
Wow. This isn't that complicated.
True, Libby is not accused of leaking information. He is accused of lying to investigators and obstructing justice.
Perhaps the reason we don't know that he leaked her name is because he lied about it!
"leaked" her name to people who were not authorized to have it.
not funny, but fascinating for the righty's spin on it, especially since Armitage's name came into it.
The basic propaganda is that only one person could have possibly been guilty of this offense.
Like if the cops found a decapitated body out in my freezer, then found the head in my co-worker's garage, would that prove my innocence?