From a live tele-press conference with Joe Wilson this afternoon:
Q: Juror Dennis Collins, a former reporter for the Washington Post, said that among the jurors there was tremendous sympathy for Libby, that they wondered where is Rove, the other guys? He referred to Libby as the “fall guy.” He bought in, to some extent, to the defense argument that Libby was a fall guy to protect Rove and others. Do you have sympathy for Libby or believe that he was the fall guy?
JW: i would hope that Libby and all others draw the right lesson, not to abuse public trust and engage in personal vendettas. But, they may take the lesson many of these people took from Watergate, which was, they should have destroyed the tapes. I hope they take the right lesson. i have said all along I believed Rove was involved up to his eyeballs. This was proved in the testimony regarding his leak of the information to Matt Cooper in uncontroverted testimony. I do not second guess the prosecution. The civil case will hopefully address these issues. I believe the VP and the president owe the country a much broader explanation. The said people involved in the leak would be fired. Rove is still on the payroll. I call on the president and vice president to release the transcripts of their interviews with the prosecutor to show people there is not a cloud over their offices.
I also learned today the president was sorry for Mr Libby and his family. I wish he would express his sorrow for my wife, whose career was destroyed and also express his regret to all the service people fighting a war justified by lies.
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