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》 COURTROOM DRAMA
Defense rests after judge bars classified evidence
Scooter Libby fails to testify, case falls short of hype
WASHINGTON — Once expected to rival the courtroom dramas of Watergate and Iran Contra, the trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby neared a quick, unsensational close Wednesday.
Libby's attorneys rested a truncated defense after the judge barred much of their classified evidence because Libby decided not to testify in his perjury trial. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald wrapped up the government's rebuttal in minutes.
On Tuesday, the jury will return to hear closing arguments over whether the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick. Chellyied
to the FBI and a grand jury about whether he leaked to reporters in 2003 that Valerie Plame, the wife of prominent Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson, worked for the CIA.
The trial fell well short of the Watergate and Iran Contra trials that riveted the nation's attention. Defense attorneys decided not to call the two biggest witnesses they had dangled in pretrial proceedings; Libby and his former boss Cheney.
In 14 days of testimony, the trial never filled an overflow courtroom, with a video hookup, to handle the crowds expected — particularly for the cross-examination of Libby and Cheney.
Nevertheless, testimony showed
that Cheney was intimately involved on a daily basis in July 2003 in rebutting Wilson's allegations that President Bush had led about intelligence to push the nation into war with Iraq.
Cheney was described by his own aides as particularly upset that Wilson suggested the vice president knew one key justification — that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons — had been debunked by Wilson in 2002.
The defense put in a handwritten note in which Cheney told the White House secretary to exonerate Libby in the leak and not sacrifice him to protect Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rowe.
The case marched chronologically through the tumultuous spring and summer of 2003, when the administration was embarrassed that U.S. forces in Iraq hadn't found any of the weapons of mass destruction that Bush had used to justify the war.
Fitzgerald's goal was to render Libby's statements to the FBI and the grand jury unbelievable.
When Libby decided not to testify, Walton reversed course on Wednesday and barred almost all the classified evidence.
"My absolute understanding was that Mr. Libby was going to testify," Walton said. "My ruling was based on the fact that he was going to testify."
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Attorney Theodore D. Wells, right, puts his arm around his client I. Lewis Scutter Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, as they leave U.S. Federal Court, Wednesday in Washington.
GREEN EGGS AND HAM
Class about Dr. Seuss fills fast at Kansas State
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MANHATTAN - Associate professor of English Philip Nel stands at the front of his classroom with a book in his hand. An illuminated screen with a typed list of eight ways to look at the story glows behind him.
He opens the class for discussion; questioning the students about the themes and motifs of the book. His students begin breaking it down, talking about its ethnic and gender
roles, stereotypes, general structure and prose.
The book?
"And to Think That I Said if on Mulberry Street," by Dr Seuss.
Nel is the instructor of a new class in the English department devoted completely to the life and works of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seus. This is the first time in Kansas State's history the university has offered a class specifically on Dr. Seus.
One could question how an
entire semester could be devoted to the famous children's author, but Nel said it is harder to figure out what not to include.
"There's an enormous amount of material," Nel said. "The real challenge comes in squeezing it all into one semester."
The class doesn't just focus on his books however; it looks into his influences, style and politics.
Nel's class attracted the interest of many students. It is on the closed list this semester, and two weeks
into the class, the room is still full of students with notebooks and pencils in hand.
Katie Pearson and Britni Kelly, both seniors, said they took the class out of sheer curiosity.
Pearson, maloring in secondary education and English, said she always heard about the deeper meaning in Seuss' work and was curious what a class about him would be like.
"It's Dr. Seuss," she said, "And Dr. Seuss is cool."
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WASHINGTON — Challenged on the accuracy of U.S. intelligence, President Bush said Wednesday there was no doubt the Iranian government was providing armor-piercing weapons to kill American soldiers in Iraq. But he backed away from claims the top echelon of Irans government was responsible.
Bush says Iran supplied weapons
Bush, at a news conference, also said he would fight any attempt by the Democratic-controlled Congress to cut off money for the war.
"They need to fund our troops and the need to make sure we have the flexibility necessary to get the job done," he said.
buildup in Iraq. The four-year-old war hangs heavily on his presidency, and Bush's approval rating in an Associated Press-lipsos poll in February matched an all-time low of 32 percent.
The House is expected to vote Friday on a nonbinding resolution opposing Bush's decision to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.
There have been mixed signals in the administration about Iran's involvement in supplying Shiite groups in Iraq with a particularly lethal type of roadside bombs.
The meeting with reporters in the East Room was Bush's first news conference since Dec. 20 and the first since he announced the troop
Three senior U.S. military officials, at a weekend briefing in Baghdad, said the highest levels of the Iranian government had ordered the weapons smuggled into Iraq. They based their claim on the belief the weapons are moving into Iraq through the Iran's Revolutionary Guards elite Quids Force.
Wading into the debate, Bush said the Quds Force was instrumental in supplying the weapons and that the Quds Force was part of the Iranian government.
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