Denis Collins (journalist)

Denis Collins, an American journalist who has written for the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Miami Herald, served as juror #9 in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., relating to the Plame affair, and was the first juror to comment publicly about the trial.

He is a former reporter for the Washington Post and the author of two recent books: Spying: The Secret History of History; and Nora's Army, about "a Bonus camp in 1932."

He is a resident of Washington, D.C..

He is currently married with two children, Dylan and Riley Collins.

On March 6, 2007, the day of the guilty verdict, Collins was the first juror to give media interviews about his experience as a juror in the trial. In his first extended television interview, on Larry King Live, he told Larry King that he planned to write about the trial.

Subsequently, on March 7, 2007, he posted a seven-page "exclusive" article about his experience as "Juror #9" in The Huffington Post.

As reported in CNN Newsroom, and subsequently on Larry King Live, and by various other television networks, including MSNBC (on Scarborough Country), and as he elaborates later in his HuffPo article, Collins "said he and fellow jurors found that passing judgment on Libby was 'unpleasant.' But in the final analysis, he said jurors found Libby's story just too hard to believe.... 'We're not saying we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of, but it seemed like ... he was the fall guy'.... Collins said the jury believed Libby was 'tasked by the vice president to go and talk to reporters.'"

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