Gee, Did They Ask Martha Stewart's Jurors Questions like These?

Scooter Libby is on trial for lying. Not for outing Valerie Plame, and not for covering up BushCo's bogus Iraq War evidence.

He's on trial for lying. Period.

12:55 PM, from The Associated Press:

"Do any of you have feelings or opinions about the Bush administration or any of its policies or actions, whether positive or negative, that might affect your ability to give a former member of the Bush administration a fair trial?" U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton asked a panel of about 60 potential jurors.

Walton did not ask jurors their opinions on the Iraq war or whether they had family or friends who served in the military - questions Libby's lawyers had hoped would be asked.

The answers will be crucial for Libby, who is hoping that a sympathetic jury can be selected from a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than nine to one.

"Do any of you have any feelings or opinions about Vice-President Cheney, whether positive or negative, that might affect your ability to be fair in this case or that might affect your ability to fairly judge Vice-President Cheney's believability?" Walton asked.

Cheney is expected to be a key defence witness. Presidential historians believe it would be the first time a sitting vice-president testified in a criminal case.

Don't you wish everyone could be treated as fairly as Bush & Cheney?

Best bar bet in the world: Delilah didn't do it.
Judges 16:19-- And she made him (Samson) sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head.