Jonathan Turley outlines Libby's defense team strategy of pressuring Cheney to help him out of multiple convictions. Not that Cheney didn't plan to bail out his pal, but they made sure to turn the screws so to speak. Full transcript here...

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Turley: If you ask any criminal defense attorney, they said we would make Dick Cheney the focus of the trial. He is perfect. He’s all over this case.  It really was an investigation about what Dick Cheney ordered, what Dick Cheney said, what Dick Cheney did.  It’s just that Dick Cheney wasn’t indicted. 

So no one was that surprised when the defense team made it clear they were going to call him to the trial and they were going to take the gloves off.  And then suddenly, it changed and they said they were not going to call him. 

They barely talked about him in any sinister way.  And they adopted what could only be described as a passive defense.  They virtually walked Libby into a conviction.  I don’t mean to be too harsh, but it seemed to me a pretty passive performance.

Well some of us speculated at the time that it seemed to be preserving the chance for a pardon.  He was a loyal soldier.  He took the hit in court and he remained quiet even after his conviction and even after his sentencing. 

Greenwald writes "Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite."