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http://www.warandpiece.com and her source is David Shuster.
This is day #2 of jury selection, and it has become another bad day for a few of America’s elite universities. This morning, a young woman with degrees from Swarthmore and Emory University said she had no opinion about the Bush Administration’s case for war with Iraq. She also said she never watches the news or reads the paper, and said she would consider Vice President Cheney “a perfect stranger.†Yesterday, a potential juror with two degrees from Northwestern, including one in journalism, said she thought she knew something about the CIA leak case but “couldn’t recall anything.†When asked about the types of stories she covered as a graduate school journalist, that woman repeatedly said, “I don’t really remember...just stuff at the court, stuff at the city council.†Asked what else? She said, “Other stuff.†Asked to be more specific, she said “I don’t remember. It was a bunch of stuff.†...
The next prospective juror, a database administration, answered affirmatively to the question of whether he “knew†any of the attorneys in the case. He said he “knew†prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from a news conference Fitzgerald held 15 months ago on the day Scooter Libby was indicted. The prospective juror said he didn’t mean to imply he “knew Fitzgerald personally.†Upon further questions by the judge, this man said his wife works in the criminal division at the justice department and added that a friend of theirs is a federal prosecutor in D.C. ....
Just a few moments ago, the 12th prospective juror to be questioned on the witness stand noted that she had read a Washington Post article on Monday previewing the Libby trial after the woman learned she would be a possible juror in the case. Asked by the judge, “You read the specific article?†The 60ish woman said, “Absolutely.†When the judge asked the woman if she had “any opinions†about the Bush administration that might affect her ability to focus solely on the evidence and statements made in court, the woman replied: “I certainly have an opinion that I can’t believe any statement by the Bush administration.†The judge immediately asked attorneys to approach the bench ...
The 13th prospective juror to be questioned has emerged as the most well connected to top figures in this case. For three years in the 1980’s, this man said he worked as a reporter at the Washington Post for Bob Woodward. Until six months ago, the man was a neighbor of Tim Russert and “shared an alley†with the host of Meet the Press. The man went to grade school with Maureen Dowd. He is “friendly†with Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus, who wrote about the administration’s false case for war in the spring of 2003. Attorneys spent more than a half hour questioning this man about whether he could put these connections aside and judge the case “fairly†and solely based on evidence presented at trial. ... Towards the end of his questioning, the man was asked about what he has been doing in recent years since working as a reporter. He casually noted he wrote a novel about “spying.†Libby’s lawyer said, “Tell me about the spying book.†The man described the “good, the bad, and the ugly†of CIA spying in Guatemala. It quickly became clear that he had no “strong opinions†one way or the other about the CIA. ....
http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/17/33073.aspx
