Surprise! Welcome to tape-delayed live-blogging. No sooner did Christy's post go up than it turned out we weren't really free for lunch after all — Judge Walton decided to finish off the Libby grand jury testimony, followed by lunch, various minor matters, and then (drumroll) Tim Russert.
Following a defense request at the last break, Walton emphasizes to jury that Fitz's GJ questions are NOT evidence any more than the questions in court are, so don't try to read into them.
We're back on the tapes now, still with McClellan and the meat grinder.
F: What do you understand "asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder" to mean?
L: (long pause) don't know specifically, I suppose that I was asked to talk to deal with press on this issue, should have either kept uranium out of SOTU or had it better documented.
F: So your interpretation — knowing that you didn't write this — is that incompetence on SOTU forced you to deal with press, and now you were having to be cleared [of suspicion of leaking]?
L: (agrees, more or less)
F: Does dealing with the press mean you being the spokesperson on July 12, by Cheney's request?
L: Don't know if I'd say that.
F; And perhaps speculation because you had talked to Time on the record on July 12?
L: (concedes, maybe so)
F: Is it still possible that Cheney told you to talk about the wife on July 12?
L: It's not on my cards for what he told me.
F: But Cheney did think trip was curious in June
L: Yes
More on the Libby trial.
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