The Daily Background

You might have already read about how a federal judge has ruled that Lewis Libby (5-count-felony-indicted former Cheney Chief of Staff), may have copies of the notes he made from 2003-2004 in order to ‘refresh his memory’ about the case. You might also be aware of the Libby request to obtain a vast amount of highly classified presidential daily briefings (PDBs), in an effort to graymail the court, and slow down his trial.

As I was reading an article earlier today, about the Judge has ruled that Libby doesn’t need to know who another person charged with the leak is (they haven’t been indicted yet– or if they have been indicted, it’s under seal, and is totally secret), a sudden thought struck me.

This just stands to reason, and nobody that I’ve seen has brought it up: why give highly classified U.S. government information, to somebody who is accused of leaking highly classified U.S. government information?

Honestly. Sure, there’s such a thing as innocent until proven guilty (this is America, after all), but there’s also such a thing as being prudent. And common sense dictates that Libby shouldn’t be given the PDBs on those grounds. Of course there’s also the issue of graymail, which will more likely be the reason that shoots his request down. Either way, he shouldn’t get them. Meaning his attempt to stall the trial (scheduled for early spring of 2007) is going to fail. Unless he pulls something else out.

Okay, that sounded kind of dirty, but you get the idea.

Filed under: Plame Leak, Z-TDB Blog