Public to get a look at Libby documents-Judge orders evidence to be made public

[kpete]

Public to get a look at Libby documents
Judge orders redacted versions of evidence be available by next month

Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP file
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has joined with Vice President Dick Cheney in asking a judge to dismiss a civil suit accusing them of conspiring to destroy the career of a CIA employee.

By Joel Seidman
Producer
NBC News

WASHINGTON - For the past few months all the public could know about the goings on during numerous closed-door hearings in Courtroom #16 were from one-line court filings indicating the proceedings were dealing with requests from I Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff - to include classified materials in his defense of perjury and obstructions charges in the CIA leak trial.

Next month all that will change. Judge Walton will give the public a peek at the issues he has had to rule on concerning the thousands of classified document in question.

Until now carts full of sealed boxes entered and exited Judge Reggie Walton's courtroom, grey-suited CIA document specialists accompanied them, and court security officers roamed the hallways on the sixth floor of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal courthouse, but both the prosecutors and defense attorneys were mum on exactly what was going on. All the public knew from the filings was that it was a tense courtroom drama that was unfolding inside.

more at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15752207/

[fooj]

1. Well I'll be damned.

[texpatriot2004]

2. Well, how 'bout them apples? nm

[Bluestar]

3. This is fantastic! n/t

[grizmaster]

4. sweet, about time

[mmonk]

5. Hhhhhmmm

Good.

[stillcool]

6. that ought to be some good reading...

Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work—and life,”

[ThomCat]

7. I wonder what we'll find in those documents

that we can use to shed some unwelcome light on the Bush adminstration? :evilgrin: