GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! and only one Not Guilty.

May he rot in hell for his TREASON!

When will Rove, Cheney, Fleischer, and Novak be indicted?

GITMO AWAITS!!!!

ONE DOWN.

687 days to go.

I looked at March 5th on the calendar instead of March 6th so.....

Make that 686 DAYS TO GO.

Will in Seattle @ 1

Let's include The Worst Preznit Ever, George Bucking Fush?

This is the part where they realize the ship REALLY IS SINKING!

Well, not to stick a big ole' pin in the balloon, but -

- what is the likelihood this will go to appeal? Considering how long it took to bring the case to trial in the first place, a decent legal team could drag this out to the end of shrub's term, at which point he'll no doubt reward "Scooter" with his very own "Preznitentious Pardner".

Call me cynical, but I'd be willing to bet dollars to donut holes the scumbag never serves a single day at "Club Fed", or anywhere else for that matter.

The fired-attorneys Senate hearing has shed light on US Attorney John McKay's firing.
From TPM:

"More bombshells: Rep. Doc Hastings' (R-WA) then chief of staff called Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay to inquire about whether the feds were investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 Washington governor's race, McKay testified. McKay said he stopped the chief of staff before he went too far with his questions, but was troubled enough by the call to discuss it with his top assistant."

Libby is NOT guilt of outing a CIA agent, please remember that.

Ms. Plame was well known as a CIA agent in Washington society circles. It was Richard Armitage who got this whole thing started by telling Bob Novak about her. In fact it's an outrage that Prosecutor Fitzgerald knew this fact from the beginning.

Libby is guilty of lying to cover-up something he didn't need to cover up.

So stop celebrating that he was found guilty of treason and pay attention to the details.

Chip Chipmunk @ 8.

You're right about the treason bit but like Martha Stewart, who wasn't convicted of insider trading but making false statements, he still broke the law and must pay unless you think lying in court is okay and he should skate?

No, he wasn't charged with it. But he IS GUILTY!

No pardon will ever change that.

Ms. Plame was well known as a CIA agent in Washington society circles.

Yet Novak didn't know? Hahahahahhaha!

Yet Cheney, Libby, Addington, and all those suckup presstitutes didn't know? Hahahahhahaha!

It would be my dream if this gets appealed and kept in the news for the entire duration of Bush's second term. If it ends in a pardon, it would be the icing on the cake.

Every time this story gets re-told, we are all reminded of this administration punishing anyone who dissented about Iraq. It is a reminder how utterly and completely wrong Bush, Cheney and company were. It is a reminder of how arrogantly stupid they were, and are.

Another few years of this story bubbling around and the myth of republican competence in foreign policy will be completely and totally burst. Bring it on.

Sweet justice! Novak should be supporting a naked human pyramid by now, so hopefully he's next. I doubt they'd be able to convict Cheney of anything (although you just know that evil bastard told Libby to out Plame).

@Comte: I believe he gets sentenced in June. He'd be shipped off to Club Fed at or around that date, and would be in prison while he appealed his case. I doubt he'll win on appeal, but I'll bet Bush will toss him a pardon and a Medal of Freedom.

Truthseeker: Of course he should be found guilty for lying to the grand jury -- even if he didn't need to lie in the first place. That's our system. Perjury is a very serous matter.

It's just ironic that Richard Armitage, incidentally a harsh critic of the Iraq war, is the one who "outed" the "covert" CIA agent, Ms. Valerie Plame.

I think this opens the door to investigate why he felt the need to lie about it if it was "no big deal".

People in DC don't put their neck out like that unless it's in their best interest or they are TOLD to (you know, because it's in their best interest).

If Plames outing was no big deal then why hide it? Why lie about it? Why sacrifice an insider to club fed?

Yeah, please, appeal! I beg of you.

The only people who should be celebrating Libby's guilt is the White House. They found their sacrificial lamb, gave immunity to every one who could hurt them, then let it play out. After all a guilty verdict means Libby takes the fall for this imperialists vindictive White House. Not guilty, was the verdict the White House feared because that would have shined the light on the dirty politics the White House used to advance Iraq War by suppressing intelligence. Libby guilty means that Libby lied and that is the end of the story. After all, no matter how much Fitzgerald wanted to prosecute the White House, he could only prosecute the guy the White House set up to take the fall- Libby.

If you hate the White House, this is their victory, not ours.

From the jurors:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003554231

Days like this you wish that Libby, Rove, and Novak would be extraordinarily rendered by Italy to some third-world nation ... since apparently the Red Bushies think it's legal to do that to US citizens and EU or Canadian citizens.

Comte has it right. Libby will be pardoned, no doubt about it.

Or, paraphrasing Harvey Keitel's charachter in Pulp Fiction, "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."

Yeah, but a pardon won't change the fact he is a traitor.

the court will probably pull an Ollie North.

You can't pardon your scapegoat, that would be admitting you were wrong. Remember the guy Cheney shot in the face, he apologized to Cheney for all the trouble he caused.

I suspect Libby will get 4-5 years in a white collar prison, get out publish a book, then become a political consultant or professional lobbyist

All this shit is scripted.

Hey,

I don't know if Libby should be pardoned or not; it's a tough call. But I would like to point out to anyone who doesn't know yet that someone put PardonLibby.org up for sale on eBay. I wonder what it'll go for. Here's the address:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=003&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=130088305011&rd=1&rd=1