....about six seconds into voir dire, if that long :)

I suspect, though, that his firm inclination to convict would have gotten him stricken somewhere along the line.

1) Fitz is not that concerned with whether or not Grossman and Grenier mentioned "the wife". What he is doing is establishing that the Wilson trip was an extremely important matter to Libby.

2) Schmall testimony establishes a number of things---despite the expected defense efforts to portray Libby as so completely focussed on critical National Security issues, on a day when a whole pile of supposedly critical national security isses, on June 14 Libby was most concerned about his meeting with Tom Cruise, a press report that said that CIA personnel were feeling pressured by administration officials, and (most critically) Joe and Valerie Wilson mentioned by name

Cline's cross-examination that included the laundry list of topics also discussed that day -- intended (apparently) to demonstrate how people can forget really important stuff -- backfired on Libby, because Schmall was NOT "tasked" to find out more about any of those crucial issues. Instead, Schmall's notes make it clear that Libby was concerned with "trivial" matters, and matters concerning the public perception of the administration and its case for war.