Comments on: The End Of The Fantasy http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:46:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: teqjack http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-56205 teqjack Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:18:34 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/#comment-56205 I also found fascinating a tidbit from another site: experts on memory were not allowed to testify. Apparently the study of memory [function] is not a science, but just common sense, according to the judge. More tellingly, presentation of expert testimony would only confuse, not educate, the jury members. If I were a doctor (or lawyer, accountant, plumber, mechanic...) I would hope never to be in a trial by a judge who disallows expert testimony because it might be confusing and/or not readily understood: is it not one function of the lawyers to press for explanations of specialist procedure/jargon that are reachable by "the man on the street"? I also found fascinating a tidbit from another site: experts on memory were not allowed to testify. Apparently the study of memory [function] is not a science, but just common sense, according to the judge. More tellingly, presentation of expert testimony would only confuse, not educate, the jury members. If I were a doctor (or lawyer, accountant, plumber, mechanic…) I would hope never to be in a trial by a judge who disallows expert testimony because it might be confusing and/or not readily understood: is it not one function of the lawyers to press for explanations of specialist procedure/jargon that are reachable by “the man on the street”?

]]> By: feeblemind http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-56181 feeblemind Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:00:58 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/#comment-56181 From here it looks that what Libby was guilty of was talking to the Press. Hope the lesson is not lost among other employees in the administration. From here it looks that what Libby was guilty of was talking to the Press. Hope the lesson is not lost among other employees in the administration.

]]> By: daveinboca http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-56162 daveinboca Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:05:13 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/03/08/the-end-of-the-fantasy/#comment-56162 Note the simple silliness of Sandy Bergler stealing/destroying documents which the 9/11 Commission needed to make its judgments and then walking away with the drastic punishment of picking up litter in Virginia parks for a few days. Then note that a witch-hunt by a political assassin named Fitzgerald catches Libby stumbling in nonsensical memory games---after FitzFong knew the leak had been to Novak by Armitage before he started his show trial. And that Plame was not a covert agent, as Ms. Toensing points out in her lucid professional fashion. Just another Vishinsky-type purge by rabid apparatchiki of the left peddling their agitprop. The game is fixed, and we remember the ridiculous flaps about chasing DeLay while a crook like Cong. Jefferson gets appointed by Pelosi to Homeland Security, with its fungible secrets that Jefferson will trade for more cold cash to the highest bidder. Pelosi is a machine politician more crooked than DeLay ever was. The outcome is rigged, and if Billy-Jeff can pardon a mega-criminal like Marc Rich in return for massive contributions to his library and some fleshy face-time with Marc's wife Deborah, then Libby can get pardoned for faulty memory in a kangaroo court plumped up in the media by mendacious reporters like Tim Russert. And Chris Matthews. Note the simple silliness of Sandy Bergler stealing/destroying documents which the 9/11 Commission needed to make its judgments and then walking away with the drastic punishment of picking up litter in Virginia parks for a few days. Then note that a witch-hunt by a political assassin named Fitzgerald catches Libby stumbling in nonsensical memory games—after FitzFong knew the leak had been to Novak by Armitage before he started his show trial. And that Plame was not a covert agent, as Ms. Toensing points out in her lucid professional fashion. Just another Vishinsky-type purge by rabid apparatchiki of the left peddling their agitprop.

The game is fixed, and we remember the ridiculous flaps about chasing DeLay while a crook like Cong. Jefferson gets appointed by Pelosi to Homeland Security, with its fungible secrets that Jefferson will trade for more cold cash to the highest bidder. Pelosi is a machine politician more crooked than DeLay ever was.

The outcome is rigged, and if Billy-Jeff can pardon a mega-criminal like Marc Rich in return for massive contributions to his library and some fleshy face-time with Marc’s wife Deborah, then Libby can get pardoned for faulty memory in a kangaroo court plumped up in the media by mendacious reporters like Tim Russert. And Chris Matthews.

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