Posted on 03/07/2007 7:40:14 AM PST by txradioguy
NEW YORK Denis Collins, the juror in the Libby/CIA leak case who delivered a post-verdict commentary for the press, spent about a decade at The Washington Post. Today, after a night on cable TV shows, he re-appears with a massive recounting of his experience at the Huffington Post blog.
His story is billed as "INSIDE THE JURY ROOM: WHAT THE JURY THOUGHT, DAY BY DAY, WITNESS BY WITNESS, AT THE SCOOTER LIBBY TRIAL" by Denis Collins, Juror #9. It calls it "unedited" impressions, memories and facts. Other jurors' names are changed.
The New York Times today reports that he is a registered Democrat. He recalls that he revealed when considered for the jury that he had worked with Bob Woodward for three or four years and also with the Post's Walter Pincus, another witness at the trial. Until a year ago, Tim Russert was a neighbor and he even attended backyard barbeques at Russert's place. But attorneys at both tables merely offered "ain't this a small town" grins, he relates.
He adds that he went to grade school with the Times' Maureen Dowd, who allegedly had a crush on Collins' brother.
One of the lawyers asked him the subject of his 2005 book. "You wrote about the CIA?" Collins said yes, which along with his reporting connections amounted to the "perfect storm." He comments: "Yet here I am," on the CIA leak case jury.
If they don't give him a new trial or a pardon...it will be a great travesty of justice.
A good lawyer might be able to find enough ammo to impeach these jurors own admission in their pre-trial questioners.
Two reasons they didn't go after the guy who "confessed". First is the fact that no crime was committed and second is the fact that Armitage didn't lead them to the white house.
Makes you wonder what the heck Libby's attorney was thinking... Amazing.
I'm reminded of the Dustin Hoffman/Gene Hackman movie of a few years back, where the activist wanted to get rid of guns and decided that getting himself onto a jury was the best way to pursue his political agenda. But I'm sure that could never happen in real life.
You can bet that with this POS in the jury room, no matter what the rest of the idiots first thought, he was going to stay there until they got a conviction. 12 angry men in reverse. He was one of the better educated, knew the witnesses, wrote about the CIA and had to be viewed by the jury as an "expert". Libby's lawyers were a bunch of dopes.
IMO, Federal trails for nationally elected officials serving in DC should have juries composed of people from across the country, not DC proper.
For the life of me I cannot figure out why his attorneys did not object to this juror. He's had horrible legal advice throughout this process.
How could Libby's lawyer let this guy on the jury???
Incredible. So the MSM had a mole on the Libby Jury.
Libby's lawyers should be disbarred for allowing this A$$hole to be a member of the jury.
This decision shows why DC has become a bed of illiterate liberal idiots.
This decision is more dangerous to White Conservative Males than Ben Laden and al Qaeda. Now we can be found guilty for any imaginary crime the liberals come up with.
Sandy Berger walks with an admitted act of theft of top secret documents and treason. Libby is charged and found guilty with an imaginary crime.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1796418/posts
Real Story Behind CIA Leak
Fox News Corp. ^ | 3-6-07 | John Gibson
Excerpt from this oped by John Gibson:
In any event Libby is a Republican and works for Dick Cheney to some liberals and to the media that in itself deserves Capital Punishment.
In contrast the national security advisor to President Bill Clinton, risking his livelihood, and his liberty stole classified documents from the national archives and destroyed them. He knew that this was a crime but the travesty is that he stole these documents in the midst of a bi-partisan commission's investigation into the terrorist attacks of 911. The implication of this act is treason.
The key questions, still unanswered are who was Mr. Berger covering up for? Was it his own mistakes as National Security Advisor that would be embarrassing to be made public by the 911 commission? Or, was he in fact covering up for mishandlings by Bill Clinton? History will never be able to re-create facts that were in those destroyed documents and therefore we may never know why the government failed to stop 911 from happening.
Almost 3000 Americans were murdered and the crime to cover up the facts surrounding that is largely unpunished. Mr. Berger is a liberal Democrat who worked for former President Bill Clinton. Being a Liberal Democrat who worked for the media beloved Bill Clinton got him a pass. So much for the balanced scales of justice.
Let's pretend LIBBY was found "NOT GUILTY" on all charges, then this came out about juror Denis Collins:
Denis Collins, the juror in the Libby/CIA leak case who delivered a post-verdict commentary for the press, spent about a decade at The Washington Post National Review. Today, after a night on cable TV shows, he re-appears with a massive recounting of his experience at the Huffington Post blog on the Rush Limbaugh show.
His story is billed as "INSIDE THE JURY ROOM: WHAT THE JURY THOUGHT, DAY BY DAY, WITNESS BY WITNESS, AT THE SCOOTER LIBBY TRIAL" by Denis Collins, Juror #9. It calls it "unedited" impressions, memories and facts. Other jurors' names are changed.
The New York Times today reports that he is a registered Democrat Republican. He recalls that he revealed when considered for the jury that he had worked with Bob Woodward William Kristol for three or four years and also with the Post'sWeekly Standard's Walter Pincus Fred Barnes, another witness at the trial. Until a year ago, Tim Russert Cal Thomas was a neighbor and he even attended backyard barbeques at Russert's Thomas's place. But attorneys at both tables merely offered "ain't this a small town" grins, he relates.
He adds that he went to grade school with the Times' syndicated columnistMaureen Dowd Ann Coulter, who allegedly had a crush on Collins' brother.
One of the lawyers asked him the subject of his 2005 book. "You wrote about the CIA?" Collins said yes, which along with his reporting connections amounted to the "perfect storm." He comments: "Yet here I am," on the CIA leak case jury.
IF this were the story about Denis Collins, you'd be hearing about it left and right, non-stop.
Not really, he was already sitting up the appeal.
...a good question
From what I've been able to tell...the deck was gonna be stacked against Libby jury wise no matter how much they objected. D.C. is a Lib haven...they couldn't have found 12 "objective" jurors if you'd looked up the definition and read it to them.
Both sides get a limited amount of objections to potential jurors if I understand the selection process properly...I'm guessing that this jury was the best they could get from the pool.
Which isn't saying much.
Weren't there jury consultants on this case? What were they thinking?
Unbelievable.
I love President Bush, but if he doesn't pardon Libbey I will never forgive him.
Libbey's lawyers are brain-dead to have allowed him on the jury.
I think that once both sides accepted them as OK to serve in the jury those questions are moot. However, IMHO, if they can be shown to have lied in order to be selected you'd have a case.
On the other hand, it seems to me that the immediate "where's Rove..." press conference following the verdict would be grounds to start an investigation into annulment.
(What the hell was Libby's defene team thinking?)
Is it possible in a case like this to get a change of venue? DC has to be one of the worst places in the world to find an unbiased jury especially for a high profile Republican official being tried on trumped up charges.
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