{"id":4732,"date":"2006-02-06T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:54:38","slug":"my_nowfamous_ru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4732","title":{"rendered":"My now-famous rugby-playing colleague has additional suspicions about Libby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, who I knew pretty well (See my previous posting <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/i_played_rugby_.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: I played rugby with Patrick Fitzgerald<\/a> )had additional allegations of lies by Libby.<\/p>\n<p>See this article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/03\/AR2006020302095.html?referrer=email&amp;referrer=email\">More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed<\/a> in the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>However, here is the second paragraph from the above article: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The records also show that by August 2004, early in his investigation of the disclosure of Plame&#8217;s identity, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald had concluded that he did not have much of a case against I. Lewis &quot;Scooter&quot; Libby for illegally leaking classified information. Instead, Fitzgerald was focused on charging Cheney&#8217;s top aide with perjury and making false statements, and knew he needed to question reporters to prove it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So the case , scheduled to go to Court January 8, 2007 (why the wait?) will revolve around Libby&#8217;s perjury to the Grand Jury (bad enough!), rather than accusing Libby of revealing classified information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, who I knew pretty well (See my previous posting Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: I played rugby with Patrick Fitzgerald )had additional allegations of lies by Libby. See this article &#8211; More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed in the Washington Post. However, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9814,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/9814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}