FBI Agent Bond admits that she mistestified when she said that Libby told her Rove told Novak. In fact he said Rove said Novak told him about Plame. Tom Maguire wraps up the testimony of Bond, who proved to be yet another weak prosecution witness . The jury has now started listening to the tapes of Libby's testimony before the grand jury. You can read the transcript of 20 pp of the grand jury testimony previously put into evidence by the prosecution here. A blogger in the media room reports that in the tapes of the grand jury, Libby sounds careful and refers to his notes Indeed, he sounds infinitely more punctilious that all the prosecution witnesses who've testified in the trial.)Azaghal explains why to that same blogger Fitzgerald sounds so confident on the tapes:1. He is the "functional equivalent of the Attorney General," and so is expressly answerable to no one at DoJ.2. As such he can exempt himself from DoJ guidelines that he finds irksome.3. He...(Read Full Post)