The link above is to wire service (AP) copy about Lewis Libby's conviction today on perjury and obstruction of justice counts. The copy is correct, but when Kevin Ogle read it to lead KFOR's 6:30 PM "news" cast just now, he managed to change it into GOP spin:

The jury found that Libby wasn't the one who actually leaked the CIA agent's identity, but his lies to the FBI and grand jury will now land him in jail.

The emphasis was in Ogle's reading, and the words are completely false. The jury was not asked if Libby was the one who first leaked Plame's identity to reporters - Libby was not charged with doing that, and the jury did not consider it. The jury did not find that Libby was not the original leaker, nor did they even consider it.

It is GOP shills like Victoria Toensing who have been saying all along that unless you can prove that someone was the original leaker, prosecuting them for perjury is out of bounds. (Of course, Toensing was extremely fond of perjury when she thought Bill Clinton had committed it.)

Toensing, by the way, was on CNN with Wolf Blitzer this afternoon, saying immediately that there's a difference between "perjury" and two people remembering conversations differently. Yes, yes there is - that's why juries have to decide who's right. In her dishonest defense of Libby, she continues to assert that poor Scooter being told something nine separate times and working on that fact for an entire week doesn't mean he remembered it at the exact moment when remembering it would have been damaging to him and his boss - he could have forgotten it for that microsecond and been telling the truth!

And yet, as a lawyer and former career prosecutor, you'd think she'd remember that this is exactly why there are trials - to find facts when people disagree. In Toensing's world, if Frank says Bob killed his wife, and Bob says he did no such thing, then there must be no possible way to decide what the facts are.

Unless she knows Bob's political affiliation, for if Bob is a Republican, he's obviously innocent, and if Bob is a Democrat he's obviously guilty. Yeesh. Get these people off the air, please.

Update: Media Matters tackles Kevin Ogle's myth:

• Libby was not responsible for the leak of Plame's identity. Some in the media have suggested that because Libby did not discuss former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity with Novak -- the first journalist to report she worked at the CIA -- he is not technically responsible for the leak. But such claims ignore the fact that Libby discussed Plame's CIA employment with then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller on several occasions prior to the publication of Novak's column naming Plame as a CIA operative.

Well, more or less - Ogle said the jury exonerated Libby of that, and that's completely wrong. They were not asked to decide that.

Update II: Media Matters also notes Toensing's CNN moment, and that Toensing did paid legal work for CNN against the investigation but CNN neglected to note that when interviewing her about how evil the investigation was.