Political Friday
Charles Johnson
Fri May 5, 2006 at 2:01 pm PDT • Views: 255
Sheesh. I step away from the computer for a couple of hours and Porter Goss resigns unexpectedly. Lots of theories flying around (the Duke Cunningham scandal? hookers? space aliens?), but very few facts about why he quit, as of this writing.
Meanwhile, in other political cage match news, Byron York at the Corner has a bulletin from the Libby courtroom.
Lewis Libby defense lawyer Theodore Wells told a federal judge a short time ago that the Libby defense team has located “five witnesses who will say under oath that Mr. [Joseph] Wilson told them his wife worked for the CIA.”
Wells said he expects that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will call Wilson himself to the stand to rebut those accusations.
Today’s hearing concerning what evidence Fitzgerald is required to turn over to the Libby defense team turned into an extended discussion of whether jurors will be allowed to assess Joseph Wilson’s credibility vs. that of the administration as it concerns the reasons the U.S. went to war in Iraq. Prosecutor Fitzgerald told the court, “We don’t want to try the war. The courtroom is not a reasonable place to try the war. Judge Reggie Walton seemed to agree, saying, ”I’m not going to let this case end up being a judicial examination of the legitimacy of the war.”
Frank says: