Three prosecution witnesses have now testified in the Libby trial that I. Lewis Libby, as Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff and national security advisor, received information that the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was a CIA employee. So far the defense has countered the testimony of all three men with heavy emphasis on the incompleteness of their memories. The focus is a putative win-win for the defense table, which like the government table numbers at least six persons, besides Libby, at any given moment. Should a government witness be discredited by his failure to remember all the pertinent ...   more »