Byron York:

Tim Russert’s testimony at the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of Lewis Libby presented a dilemma for the left-wing netroots critics of the Bush administration who have come to the federal courthouse in Washington to watch the proceedings. On the one hand, they can’t stand Libby and, even more, Libby’s old boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. But on the other hand, they can’t stand Tim Russert, either. Whose side to take?

Tom Maguire:

In one sentence, the defense insinuation will be that Russert cooperated with the FBI investigation and committed a firing offense by keeping that from his NBC overlords; he also misled the FBI and the grand jury about his talk with Libby in order to minimize his own role in this case.

Howard Kurtz:

And this is what’s interesting. As defense lawyer Ted Wells started questioning Russert about the mistaken statement he had made to me, which he later had to correct, I immediately knew what he was talking about. It was a long magazine piece in which I tried to subject Russert to a “Meet the Press”-style interrogation during a 90-minute Q & A. But I couldn’t instantly recollect the exact sequence of when I learned of the error and how I came to do the follow-up piece. The whole thing was a minor flap, but when it’s time to impeach the witness, the defense will use any and all available weapons. Human memory, it turns out, is a fragile thing, even for journalists who pride themselves on having a vast mental repository of information.

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