Update: Not guilty on count 3. Guilty on remaining counts 1, 2, 4, and 5.

Via TalkLeft blogger Jeralyn Merritt:

Guilty on count 1 – Obstruction
Guilty on count 2 – False Statement, Russert
Not Guilty on count 3 – False Statement, Cooper
Guilty on Count 4 – Perjury
Guilty on Count 5 – Perjury

White House statement expected ETA 12:30pm.

Fred Barnes on FNC states the obvious: “This is damaging to the White House, no question about that.” But, he says, “it’s not quite as devasting as it could be.”

Libby lawyer Theodore Wells: “We are very disappointed in the verdict of the jurors…Despite our disappointment in the jury’s verdict, we believe in the American justice system and in the jury system. We intend to file a motion for a new trial and if that is denied, we will file a motion for appeal…[He is] totally innocent. We intend to keep fighting to establish his innocence.”

No questions.

12:37pm Patrick Fitzgerald. Paraphrasing. “The results are sad. It’s sad that we have a situation in which a top official lied and obstructed justice. But it happened…We brought charges. We went to trial. And proved our case…Any lie under oath is serious. We cannot tolerate perjury…”

12:42pm Fitzgerald: “I do not expect to file any further charges.” Paraphrasing: We’re not going to be handing over our files to you guys to write articles or books or whatever.

12:54pm Denis Collins, one of the jurors, addresses the press. He identifies himself as a former reporter. “The primary thing that convinced us on most of the accounts was the alleged conversation with Russert…It was either false (didn’t happen) or did happen…Mr. Libby was either told by or told to about Mrs. Wilson at least nine times…we believed he had a bad memory…but contradicted by testimony that he had an incredible grasp of details…even if he forgot who told him, it seemed very unlikely that he would have not remembered about Mrs. Wilson…tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury…jury asked “Where’s Rove? Where’s the other guys?” It seemed like he was the fall guy.

Googling “Denis Collins” turns up this book on Amazon:

SPYING: The Secret History of History
Book Description
Everyone, at some time in his or her life, fantasizes about being a spy–James Bond, Mata Hari, George Smiley, Maxwell Smart. At the new International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., more than a million visitors have stepped into the secret history of history–and have learned what it is really like to live undercover. This distinctive and fascinating book at once distills and expands upon that experience, with inside information on how spies do their jobs, interviews with operatives, and hundreds of photographs and descriptions of tools of the trade.

Biographies of legendary spies and how they completed their special operations are included, along with timelines showing the developments of bugs, surveillance tools, weapons, and disguises. Letters, maps, examples of disguises, dead drops, and rare photos make spies and their operations from 2000 BC to the present live and breathe on every page.

About the Author
Denis Collins is a journalist who writes for the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Miami Herald. He lives in Washington, DC.

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All the cable nets are reporting…

Byron York parses the reports of jury “confusion” and concludes it’s the case, not the jury, that’s the problem.

Just One Minute is Libby Case Central.

Clarice Feldman’s read on the jury last week is up at The American Thinker.

Honing in on the Cooper conversation.

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