Wed's NYT: Lawyers Reveal Libby's Defense Stragegy

At Libby's arraignment this month, his lawyers alluded to using a First Amendment defense in fighting the charges, but they have declined to say what that strategy might entail.

In interviews, lawyers close to the case made clear that the defense team planned to aggressively pursue access to reporters' notes beyond the material cited in the indictment and planned to go to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton to compel disclosure as one of their first steps.

Defense lawyers plan to seek notes not only from the three reporters cited in the indictment -- Tim Russert of NBC News, Matt Cooper of Time Magazine, and Judith Miller, formerly of The New York Times -- but also from other journalists who have been tied to the case.

Chief among those is Robert D. Novak, who first disclosed in a column in July 2003 that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.


http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Libby_lawyers_to_employ_First_Amendment_1115.html

This just gets better and better... :popcorn:

They better be really, really clever with that one, because the judge, Reggie Walton - he's well-known here and a really good, tough jurist - isn't going to let any of this go very far afield.

Perjury and lying are very straightforward charges with defenses that do not lend themselves to flamboyant defenses.

This is going to be very, very interesting.

Looks like rove tried to pin it on libby and libby is returning the favor.