It must be hard to sit in the audience and not bust out laughing during some of the statements made there.

Should prove to be a fascinating ride.

Libby is on trial for lying to investigators. I think his lawyer's attempt to turn the trial into a question of whether Libby is guilt of leaking classified information is likely to backfire on him. Too much focus on that question may lead juriest to conclude that had a good reason to lie.

He lied. Repeatedly, proactively, in affirmative detail. Not just via the customary "to-the-best-of-my-recollection" weasel phrases.

Guilty of lying to federal investigators, perjury, and resultant obstruction.

He will be convicted. Then pardoned after they melt more clock with the appeals dance.

I was summoned for this jury, but at the time, I (1) didn't realize that it was for the Libby trial (I only figured this out later when I heard the beginning date of jury selection), and (2) I was scheduled to travel for work this week and next so I had to defer. I'm sorry now that I didn't get a chance to be on the jury, although with my record of hatred for the Bush junta...er...administration and the disastrous effects his absurd and mostly unconsitutional policies have wrecked on this country, I seriously doubt that I would have been chosen. I'm also afraid that my complete and utter infatuation with Patrick Fitzgerald might have been too much of a distraction to my being able to apply myself 100% to the facts of the case as well as to what the defense would be arguing.

... then he can turn state's evidence against Rove (or Cheney) in exchange for a lighter sentence.

But Rove isn't really higher up in the hierarchy than Libby. As Cheney's chief of staff as well as an extra job as a senior adviser to Bush, Libby was basically at the same level of power as Rove. This might not have been true in some other administration, but Cheney was basically running the show in the Bush administration and Libby was his top guy.

if he was that concerned about getting thrown under the bus, it seems unlikely that he "forgot" the details of who-leaked-who-in-the-what-now. rather, he lied.

it also strikes me that he might have been trying to protect dick cheney with his lies. dick cheney would not do the same for him, the troops, or the american people. dick cheney cares about dick cheney.