Scooter Libby's defense strategy is, um, unusual:
Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. opened their case Monday with a parade of prominent Washington reporters who testified that Mr. Libby never mentioned the identity of a Central Intelligence Agency operative when they interviewed him during the period the officer’s identity was leaked to the news media.
One by one, the reporters from The Washington Post, The New York Times and Newsweek took the stand and recounted their conversations with Mr. Libby in the summer of 2003 about unconventional weapons and Iraq. They briskly and unhesitatingly said Mr. Libby, then the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, did not speak about the C.I.A. employee, Valerie Wilson.
But Libby isn't accused of leaking to those reporters or lying about his conversations with them. It's like calling all the people who weren't killed to the stand in a murder trial.
Do they often call on the deceased to stand in murder trials?
Posted by: J$ | February 14, 2007 at 03:54 PM