Verdict Breakdown and News of future appeal!

Following are the individual charges and their corresponding verdicts:

Obstruction of Justice: GUILTY

False statements to FBI investigators (about Russert conversation): GUILTY

False statement to FBI investigators (about Cooper conversation): NOT GUILTY

Perjury to the Grand Jury (about Tim Russert conversation): GUILTY

Perjury to the Grand Jury (about the Matt Cooper conversation): GUILTY

Verdict 3 and 5....Not guilty of statement to the FBI, but guilty to the statement to the Grand Jury (purjery).

Things heard on MSNBC and CNN:

Mr. Wells, being interviewed after the trial, said they were disappointed with the verdict and still believe that Libby is innocent. He intends to appeal. (Think of the money this will cost!)

The WH is saddened with the verdict. They will say no more because of ongoing legal proceedures.

Libby Juror:
It was the Russert testimony that convinced the jury that Libby was lying. Mr Libby was told by or told to people about Wilson's wife 9 times. Even if he didn't remember who he told it to, he did tell.

There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Libby by the jury. Where was Rove and the others and Cheney!

The jury took everything apart and opinion did not enter into it. The pieces were there.

Mr. Cooper, it was his word against Libby's. Cooper had already heard it from Rove, but he never wrote an article about it. It was reasonable doubt on Cooper's testimony. They spent the most time on the Cooper verdict.

Jury was focued on facts!

Fitzgerald said that the right verdict was reached. He said much much more but I'd have to read his interview to remember.

From FireDogLake:

To say it was tense in the courtroom as we were waiting for a verdict would be an understatement. My heart was pounding in my chest as it all started to become real for me, all we'd done, how far we'd come.

Libby was stoic and Mrs. Libby daubed her eyes as the verdict was read. Nobody on the prosecution showed much emotion but Zeidenberg held his head in his hands. Libby himself was seated between Wells and Jeffress. He did not move.

Afterwards Mrs. Libby came up and hugged Jeffress profusely, then Wells, saying "love you, love you" with much emotion. Then all the rest of the defense team. She didn't hug Scooter however, or hold his hand, or even make eye contact.

Wells said he would make a statement in the hallway in 10 minutes, and Fitzgerald will give one on the courthouse steps.

It's a good day to be an American, huh?

The filing of papers for the sentence will be filed June 5th, 2007. This will give the defense time to file appeals

Libby Trial Verdict expected at Noon EST

It's verdict day, finally. I'm hoping for some jail time for Libby!!

Will be back with the verdict, all 5 counts.

Libby Trial, Novak and Newsweek's Mystery Man

Newsweek has a new article on the Libby trial. During Robert Novak's testimony, he mentioned a man that no one in the trial had heard about before. Seems he's very well connected in the White House. Here's an excerpt:

A Man of Mystery
Richard Hohlt is the heavy hitter you've never heard of.

By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Feb. 26, 2007 issue - Robert Novak, as usual, had a scoop to unload—only this time, it was from the witness stand. Testifying last week in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the conservative columnist gruffly described how he first learned from two top Bush administration officials that Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson, was a CIA officer. But then Novak injected a new name into the drama—one that virtually nobody in the courtroom knew.

Asked by one of Libby's lawyers if he had talked about Plame with anybody else before outing her in his column, Novak said he'd discussed her with a lobbyist named Richard Hohlt. Who, the lawyer pressed, is Hohlt? "He's a very good source of mine" whom I talk to "every day," Novak replied. Indeed, Hohlt is such a good source that after Novak finished his column naming Plame, he testified, he did something most journalists rarely do: he gave the lobbyist an advance copy of his column. What Novak didn't tell the jury is what the lobbyist then did with it: Hohlt confirmed to NEWSWEEK that he faxed the forthcoming column to their mutual friend Karl Rove (one of Novak's sources for the Plame leak), thereby giving the White House a heads up on the bombshell to come.

So the plot thickens once again. And it all goes back to the White House. There's more and it's interesting so here's the link.