So here’s another built-in appeal: another juror who convicted Libby for something with which he was neither charged, nor on trial. She had no better understanding of what she was doing there than Denis Whoever does.

This is amazing to me. Libby was not charged with outing Plame (despite all the coverage we read to the contrary),and that is in fact not a crime in the eyes of anyone even if it had been the point! (If it were, we would now be speculating about the length of Armitage’s upcoming sentence.)

But,a long with a generally clueless press corps, we now have at least two jurors on the record testifying that they had no idea a) why they were there, or b) what they were doing, or c) what they were supposed to be considering.

I’d say a successful appeal from this mish-mash would be pretty close to inevitable.

I believe he also called for the President to fire Fitzgerald for prosecutorial misconduct. I wish the President had the stomach to do that. I thought that Fitzgerald tarnished himself and the case irrevocably with his first public statement about the indictment. He told bald faced lies to the public on that occasion, and never stopped right up to his post-trial statement. Patrick Fitzgerald meet Mike NiFong.

Now that the trial is over, I know of two jury members who have spoken publicly and revealed themselves to be exactly as Mulhern described the jury; i.e., either partisan hacks or too mentally challenged to judge anyone.

One other aspect of the trial has not been discussed publicly as far as I know. That is the competence of the defense. I know that Ted Wells is described as an excellent defense attorney. But, he certainly appeared to be off his game in this episode.

It is sad, but when the media and partisans scream for political blood real lives are damaged.

The only positive development so far is that despite the efforts of T.S. and others of like mind to glorify him, the media spotlight is now turned fully on Joe Wilson, and it reveals a rat who was skulking on the edge of the shadows. No satisfaction for Scooter Libby, however.