In an article appearing in tomorrow’s Washington Post and available online
now, we learn that it wasn’t just the opinion of Fitzgerald and the grand jury
that Libby perjured himself but one judge who had made rulings in the case also
felt the same:
[Judge David] Tatel wrote that interviewing Miller would be crucial to
making that decision, because Libby might have mentioned to her that he knew
Plame’s status was covert. He concluded that simply lying about a national
security matter was serious enough to warrant ordering the reporters to
testify about their conversations with Libby.“While it is true that on the current record the special counsel’s
strongest charges are for perjury and false statements rather than
security-related crimes … perjury in this context is itself a crime with
national security implications,” he wrote.The information gives a fuller picture of the case that Fitzgerald will
likely put on against Libby. Yesterday, a federal judge scheduled his trial
to start on Jan. 8, 2007.
View complete article
here.
This information got released today due to the lawsuit filed by Dow Jones,
inc on behalf of the Wall Street Journal for the unsealing of the rulings and
opinions. The newly disclosed information actually makes Libby look more guilty.
I am sure the WSJ was upset over that.