Great job Fitz!
Limited intellgence details decision likely eliminates prospect of 'graymail'
WASHINGTON - A federal judge has accepted a series of redactions and substitutions proposed by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald - to be provided to I Lewis "Scooter" Libby's defense team - which will limit what Libby can share with jurors at his upcoming trial on some of the specifics of his top-secret White House briefings.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton also ordered the review by national security agencies of classified documents requested by Libby - Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff - for his defense of perjury and obstruction charges in the Valerie Plame, CIA/Leak case, must be completed by December 22.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16156279
Here is what I wrote in piece yesterday:
"Team Libby thinks by entrapping Fitzgerald with so many classified documents for Libby’s defense that this will box in Fitzgerald to object to the judge allowing so many classified documents. Fitzgerald may object to the detail to the largely amount of narrative summaries that Libby seeks to introduce and/or Walton’s ruling of the nine topics in which Libby can use in his defense. Fitzgerald’s concern is not the classified information (which much of the classified documents irrelevant to the case will be blackened out) but the focus is how much information from these narrative summaries and nine topics are being overloaded to the jury."
More on Waterflake's website.
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