Rove co-conspirator Lewis Libby pleads "NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS!" as to why he OUTED an undercover CIA operation to the DC press/media....

President Bush's STONEWALL of the CIA "outing" scandal is, at the very least, succeeding in DELAYING and CONFUSING the case. As we recall, Ambassador Joe Wilson published an op-ed in the New York Times in July of 2003 that not only directly contradicted Mr. Bush's stating that Iraq was purchasing African uranium ore ("yellowcake") for an alleged nuclear weapons program, but Mr. Bush KNEW THE STORY HE WAS TELLING WAS FALSE when he included it in his January 2003 State of the Union speech as a means of drumming up support for an attack, invasion, and occupation of Iraq. Shortly after Ambassador Wilson's op-ed hit the New York Times editorial pages, the DC press was suddenly flooded with stories that the Ambassador's wife was actually a CIA undercover spy, operating under "NOC" rules - NON-OFFICIAL-COVER - which meant that should such a person be arrested in a foreign country for spying, they would have NO official protection from the US government, and could thus be executed or imprisoned as a spy.

Not only did the DC press reports "out" Mrs. Plame-Wilson's UNDERCOVER identity, but the same stories also RUINED, DESTROYED, DEMOLISHED the cover of the cover company Mrs. Plame-Wilson was working for, an entirely CIA run company then called Brewster-Jennings energy consultants.

This month, we learn from a leading member of that "DC press corps" (the Washington Post) that Mr. Libby, charged with a felony for his role in the "outing scandal" is pleading that STATE SECRETS will PROVE that he is innocent, and that therefore his trial must be thrown out of court.

That is how Mr. Bush's Washington works.... Innocent health experts are WRONGLY blamed for the ANTHRAX TERROR ATTACKS and have their lives ruined by the US government; and administration insiders who answered directly to the President and Vice-President find the government running "INTERFERENCE" on a criminal prosecution to save THEIR hides.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601554.html

Such is inJustice in George Bush's America... and the ANTHRAX TERRORIST STILL ROAMS FREE, given LICENSE BY THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE to possibly STRIKE AGAIN IN THE FUTURE.

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Secret Papers Could Halt CIA Case
Libby Intends to Present Classified Evidence; Judge Skeptical
Associated Press
Saturday, October 7, 2006; Page A08
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601499.html?nav=E8

Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff intends to load up his criminal trial with information about nine national security matters, the names of foreign leaders and details about various terrorist groups, according to court filings in the Valerie Plame leak case.

The papers filed this week hint at what has been taking place behind closed doors as Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald tries to limit the amount of classified data that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is permitted to use at his trial, scheduled for January.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton is asking whether classified evidence would overlap with what Libby is likely to say in his testimony. Libby's attorneys have said he will take the witness stand to deny lying to the FBI in its investigation of the disclosure of Plame's identity to the media.

Even if prosecutors agreed ahead of time about the importance of the "nine national security matters" he wants to disclose, Libby would be entitled to introduce additional evidence, the lawyers wrote.

In court documents, prosecutors argued that it would be "unnecessarily wasteful of time" to allow Libby to present "names of foreign leaders or government officials of other countries, or the names and histories of various terrorist groups."

The danger for prosecutors is that the sheer volume and sensitivity of the classified information Libby wants to introduce could scuttle the trial. Once the judge identifies classified information Libby is entitled to present, U.S. intelligence agencies must rule on whether the secrets can be declassified. The trial would collapse if the intelligence agencies refuse to declassify the information.

Libby is charged with five felony counts of perjury, obstruction and making false statements to the FBI. He is accused of lying about how he learned of Plame's CIA employment and what he told reporters about her when her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, was accusing the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence to help sell the public on waging war against Iraq.

Libby plans to use what his attorneys call "a memory defense" and must be allowed to demonstrate how busy he was, the lawyers say.