2007年VOA标准英语-Libby's Fate Now With Jury in CIA Leak Case
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（二月）
Washington
21 February 2007
The fate of former White House aide Lewis Libby now rests with a jury in Washington, D.C. Libby is accused of lying and obstructing 1 justice in the investigation 2 into who leaked the identity of former CIA covert 3 officer Valerie Plame in 2003. National correspondent Jim Malone has more from Washington.
Lewis 'Scooter' Libby arrives at US Federal Court in Washington, 21 Feb 2007
The jury of eight women and four men began deliberations one day after closing arguments by both sides in the case.
Prosecutors 5 contend Libby lied about his conversations with journalists concerning Valerie Plame. Plame is married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's justification 6 for the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Defense 7 attorneys argued that Libby is the victim of a bad memory and that there is no proof he deliberately 8 lied to FBI agents and a grand jury investigating the Plame case.
James Gordon Meek 9 has been covering the Libby trial for the New York Daily News. He spoke 10 on the C-SPAN public affairs TV network.
"It seems like a simple case," he said. "Did the guy lie or not? But the way it has been presented in court every day is very confusing, even for those of us who have been covering the leak probe all along. The government has made an incredibly, I think, very solid case. And Libby's lawyers, who are very expensive and very talented, have done a hell of a job to defend their client."
Prosecutor 4 Patrick Fitzgerald said Libby leaked Plame's CIA identity as part of a White House effort to discredit 11 her husband.
Libby's defense attorney said Libby was preoccupied 12 with national security matters in his role as Vice 13 President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and was too busy to recall what he told journalists about the Plame matter.
Plame's name first surfaced in an article by syndicated columnist 14 Robert Novak in July of 2003.
If convicted, Libby could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.
- You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway. 你不能在这里停车，你挡住了我家的车道。
- He was charged for obstructing the highway. 他因阻碍交通而受控告。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。
- The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.军队对这座建筑物进行了数月的秘密监视。
- The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
- The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
- In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
- They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
- He expects his wife to be meek and submissive.他期望妻子温顺而且听他摆布。
- The little girl is as meek as a lamb.那个小姑娘像羔羊一般温顺。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- Their behaviour has bought discredit on English football.他们的行为败坏了英国足球运动的声誉。
- They no longer try to discredit the technology itself.他们不再试图怀疑这种技术本身。
- He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事，没注意到有什么不对。
- The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。