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True to his reputation, Fitzgerald remained as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago throughout the case. When the trial ended Tuesday, he sounded eager to return to his "day job," as he called it, and his next case: the prosecution of press baron Conrad Black for allegedly defrauding shareholders of his Hollinger International media empire. The trial is scheduled to start March...
There was notable excitement last Sunday night when students learned that the Undergraduate Council (UC) would be considering a bill that would make copies of The New York Times available in dining halls across campus for the remaining two months of the year. A trial period earlier this year was an unmitigated success—over 350 students wrote to the UC about how great it was to find the Times at their breakfast tables. Then came the news that the UC had voted the proposal down. Spending $1,728 to deliver five newspapers a day to each house dining...
...From the start, the case was only marginally about Libby. What was really on trial was the whole culture of an Administration that treated the truth as a relative virtue, as something it could take or leave as it needed. Everyone knows now that Bush and Cheney took the country into a deadly, costly and open-ended war on flimsy evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Yes, Congress went along. And yes, the public on balance supported it. But no one was more responsible than the Vice President for pushing the limits of the prewar intelligence that...
...None of that was illegal. So four years later, the Libby trial still prompts the question, Why did Libby get into legal trouble in the first place? Why did the Vice President's top aide not simply admit to what everyone knew was true - that he discussed the identity of Wilson's wife Valerie Plame, a CIA officer, with at least one reporter? Since most experts agree that Libby was unlikely to be prosecuted on a charge of revealing her identity, it is hard not to conclude that Libby cooked up his stories to protect Cheney. If Libby had gone...
...months to three years in prison, though Judge Reggie Walton has discretion over the sentence he will hand down on June 5. In Libby's favor is the Columbia Law School grad's otherwise clean criminal record. Meanwhile, Libby's lawyers will try to argue for a new trial - something few observers expect Walton will permit - and then will ask the judge to allow Libby to postpone his jail sentence until an appeal can be heard. Retired Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin maintains that an appeal could be considered - and ruled on - in as little as six months, but it could...