His testimony, calling for opening electricity markets to competition, was part lecture, part sermon.
The board's vote followed Republican candidate Mark Harris's testimony calling for a new election after he said he was mistaken in his testimony earlier in the day.
Still, the Libby legal team seized on Woodward's testimony, calling it a "bombshell" with the potential to upend Fitzgerald's case.
Mr. Dodd strongly rebutted Mr. O'Hare's testimony, called his bookkeeping "sloppy," and said his previous confidence in the aide was "misplaced".
The Libby legal team cheered Woodward's testimony, calling it "a bombshell" and contending that it undercut Fitzgerald's case that Libby was the first official known to have talked about Plame and her CIA status with a reporter.
In a statement Thursday, Mr. Grey said he was "extremely saddened" by Mr. Shandling's testimony, calling it "very different than what I remember and what I know to be true".
In his Fourteenth Symphony, he set a poem by Apollinaire entitled "The Zaporozhian Cossacks' Answer to the Sultan of Constantinople," in which the "evil butcher of Podolye" is denounced in tones distinctly reminiscent of the Scherzo from the Tenth Symphony — the piece that "Testimony" calls a "portrait of Stalin".
The prosecution spent the first month of testimony calling witnesses who were close to Mrs. Astor and who told similar anecdotes about how she did not remember their names; made irrational and sometimes inappropriate remarks late in life; expressed her disdain for her daughter-in-law, Charlene Marshall; and had trouble with simple tasks.
Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria, who appeared on short notice to comment on Mr. Kitsmarishvili's testimony, called the allegations "irresponsible and shameless fabrication," and said they were "either the result of a lack of information or the personal resentment of a man who has lost his job and wants to get involved in politics".
Some, such as Rep. Jim Greenwood Jim Greenwood (R-Penn)., chairman of the subcommittee that was taking Winnick's testimony, called the offer "magnanimous" and a shocking act of leadership.
