List of People Who May Testify or Be Mentioned at Libby's Trial
There you are, ladies and gentleman, the list of all potential witnesses who may be called at Scooter Libby's trial. The most interesting surprise? Dougie Feith, propaganda artist extraordinaire. And...
View ArticleDid Libby Leak the CIA Report on Wilson's Trip to Novak?
The MSM has bought the story of Armitage as the "source" hook, line, and sinker. But there is increasing evidence that Fitzgerald will have some surprises that will undercut that story. In a proposed...
View ArticleLibby Update and Documents
I'm cross-posting two TNH posts below. The first shows that--in new news--the CIA actually received a copy of the Niger forgeries, in addition to the State Department. The second offers some thoughts...
View ArticleLibby Trial: Tom Cruise and National Security
Here was my own personal favorite moment in the trial coverage on Wednesday. At one point, Cline was questioning Schmall about all the thing that Schmall's work, as a briefer, helped Libby do with his...
View ArticleLibby's Testimony Dance
Understand this. Libby's team is playing a big game with their witnesses, throwing a bunch of names out there--Cheney, Bartlett, Rove, Libby, Wilson, Woodward, and about 12 journalists to be named...
View ArticleThe Banality of the Unitary Executive
It's weird, blogging the Libby trial. I'm putting out details at such a tremendous rate all day that I have a real hard time getting the big picture--though I do get that by the time I talk it through...
View ArticleMigrant Libby Liveblog
FDL has crashed, so I'm going to liveblog the Libby trial here until we get FDL up again. Please recommend this up so people can find it.Thanks.This starts in a sidebar where they're discussing two...
View ArticleThe Libby Trial: Collective Forgetting in the Office of the Vice President
I'm going to make a not-so-bold prediction. Libby is not going to put Dick Cheney on the stand. And he never intended to.Here's why. It would be almost impossible to put Cheney on the stand and not...
View ArticleLibby's Approximate Date
As astute readers have noted, there is a key detail from the note (PDF) Libby wrote in June 2003 recording the information Cheney had just passed along, that Plame worked in the Counter-Proliferation...
View ArticleWhat Wasn't In Tenet's Statement: The January 24 Document
This morning I posted a summary of the various drafts of George Tenet's July 11, 2003 statement taking some of the blame for the 16 Words in the SOTU. I suggested that Cheney was the one who was...
View ArticleDick's Talking Points
I made the point the other day that if Cheney were put on the stand, he might be put in a place where he refuted some of Libby's testimony. Specifically, Cheney might have to admit that he and Libby...
View ArticleThe January 24 Document Had NOTHING to Do with the SOTU
I raised some questions the other day about the January 24, 2003 document that OVP used to justify the inclusion of the 16 words in the SOTU. Basically, my questions were:Why did George Tenet refuse to...
View ArticleScooter Libby Meets (and Greets) the Press
For the record, I'd like to catalog he number of, um, questionable, conversations with journalists that Scooter Libby had. By that, I mean just conversations where he spoke to journalists at a rather...
View ArticleThe Libby Defense Rests (Almost)
We're waiting to see whether the ice sheet blanketing DC prevents the trial from restarting at 11:30 today--Libby's team is supposed to complete their defense. The defense was short--really short. But...
View ArticleLibby's Evolving Defense Claims
Back before the trial started, I noted this passage from Libby's theory of his defense.Mr. Libby further contends that when the investigation began, he was confident that he had not provided any...
View ArticleLibby Trial: Hunting Vampires
One wildarsed speculation that I made about the Plame affair that has proven to be correct is that Libby and Novak had a conversation they were trying to hide. Jane S has been asking how I figured out...
View ArticleIndicting Dick, the Trial Edition
In my sixth post after Libby's indictment--just two days after the indictment--I wrote a post called Indicting Dick. After noting that one of the indictment descriptions--the strategy session aboard...
View ArticleLibby Trial: Madness! Madness! Madness!
One of my favorite posts from FDL's trial commentary was Pachacutec's Who's Your Daddy. He wrote:A trial is a complex thing. There's all the evidence, rules of evidence, legal stuff and rules for jury...
View ArticleLibby's Missing Document
So here's what I've been thinking about while I wait on the jury (and reunite with my MilleniaLab, who missed me quite a bit). There's a potential smoking gun document that seems remarkably absent from...
View ArticleLibby Trial: Two New Jury Questions
Late today, the jury submitted two questions to Judge Walton that off the best opportunity to read some tea leaves about what they're thinking. Here's my read on those tea leaves.
View ArticleWaxman Hearing: Tom Davis Reveals His Cards
There's a remarkable detail from Waxman's hearing on Friday, relating to my favorite story of Libby's bogus NIE story. In short--the ranking Minority member, Tom Davis, reveals he knows--and...
View ArticleNovak Lied about What Libby Gave Him
I wasn't going to do this. I contemplated letting the whole Plame thing go. But hell, if Novak can blab on about it forever, then I think I ought to take the time (we're talking a four-part series, I...
View ArticleBeware the Shiny Object in the Gonzales News
Everyone is excited about the fact that Abu Gonzales is done. He has to be:Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting, according to documents...
View ArticleCheney Can NOT Declassify at Will
Ever since it was revealed (first by me and then by Murray Waas) that Libby had testified he was authorized to leak Plame's identity the NIE by Cheney and Bush, Cheney has claimed that he has the...
View ArticleWaxman Says: Give Us the RNC Emails
Hey, whose job was it to tell Henry Waxman that he's supposed to be on recess this week? Because he's still churning out letters, closing in on Republican chicanery. This one is a request to the head...
View ArticleMonica Goodling's Loyalty Oaths
Josh Marshall notes a passage in a BoGlo article that suggests the politicization of the DOJ started before Kyle Sampson's suggestions to fire all the USAs in 2005. In fact, John Ashcroft changed...
View ArticleSenator Whitehouse Busts Gonzales for Burying the DOJ Internal Investigation
There was an important part of the Gonzales hearing yesterday that was kind of confusing, so I wanted to unpack it here. It appears that Senator Whitehouse believes Gonzales tried to bury DOJ's...
View ArticleDid CO's USA Hide His Abramoff-Related Lobbying?
In my post examining who BushCo has replaced the fired USAs with on the Native American Issues Subcommittee, I pointed out that DOJ decided to hide a salient fact about CO's USA Troy Eid's background....
View ArticleWhy Did James Comey Fire Thomas DiBiagio?
As Paul Kiel notes, one of the pieces of news from today's hearing is that James Comey asked two different USAs to resign. Comey didn't say who he had to fire. But it's clear that one of those USAs is...
View ArticleDid DOJ Leak to Taint the Wilkes Prosecution?
Earlier this week, I mapped out all of the leaks used by Brent Wilkes' lawyer, Mark Geragos, to support his attempts to get Wilkes' indictment thrown out as improper. But there's one leak of particular...
View ArticleGonzales Backdated Griffin's Appointment to Get around Pryor
There has been a bit of discussion about the Comey hospital story. Why would Gonzales and Card get Ashcroft's signature to authorize their domestic spying program? Any idiot who knew about Ashcroft's...
View ArticleLibby's Lawyer Is Afraid of Bloggers
(From the diaries -- kos)There is a mini-controversy brewing over whether the letters sent to Judge Walton, arguing that Libby shouldn't go to jail because he's too important, should be released to the...
View ArticleThe Libby Letters: Did Michael Horowitz Threaten Judge Walton?
I wanted to call attention to the Michael Horowitz letter in support of leniency for Libby. Horowitz issues a thinly-veiled threat to retaliate if Libby has to do jail time. Disposition of the Libby...
View ArticleFred Fielding Lied to the Press Yesterday
The White House had a super-secret briefing yesterday in which they trotted out Fred Fielding, but then insisted he be referred to solely as a Senior Administration Official. Perhaps they insisted on...
View ArticleObstruction of Justice Merits More Punishment than Censure
[Promoted from the Diaries - Meteor Blades]Let me say straight out. Punishing Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence with censure would be like punishing Libby's obstruction of justice with just 400...
View ArticleChief Libby Lobby Complaint Proven False
Let's pretend, for a second that all the other reasons why the cries of "runaway prosecutor" from the Libby Lobby don't exist. Set aside the fact that the FBI and then Fitzgerald were investigating all...
View ArticleWhy Does Rove's Story So Closely Match Libby's Perjury?
Karl Rove has finally gone public with his cover story for his leak to Novak (transcripts here and here; my long-winded Rove debunk here). Don't you think it'd be nice if the "journalists" interviewing...
View ArticleSolution for MI: Solomon's Baby
What I'm about to write will probably get me bounced from local politics. But here goes--my suggestion for how you resolve the impasse over the MI delegates. It requires each campaign to lose a bit,...
View ArticleSign a Petition to Solve MI's Clusterf**k
I just started a petition to collect the names of people who would like the MDP and the DNC to adopt my "Solomon's baby" solution for the seemingly intractable problem of how to seat MI's delegation.
View ArticleIs George Bush Giving Saudi Arabia Nukes?
No no, not the bomb. Strictly a peaceful civil program, you understand, just like the Iranians say they're developing.As Bush flew into Riyadh, the White House said the United States, the world's...
View ArticleDNC Ignores Valid Citizens' Complaint about MI's Primary
The Democratic Party's charter requires that the Party:Establish standards and rules of procedure to afford all members of the Democratic Party full, timely and equal opportunities to participate in...
View ArticleDid MI's April 19 Conventions Become Clusterf^$ks Too?
There's something disturbing in the Rules and By-Law Committee Meeting Materials handed out for Saturday's meeting: the distinct possibility that the RBC will overturn the results of MI's April 19...
View ArticleWaxman Closing in on Cheney's Role in Outing Plame
Henry Waxman noted the same thing that I did about Scottie McClellan's book. He noticed that Scottie McC's book sure came close to saying Dick Cheney and George Bush were personally involved in the...
View ArticleFive Years Ago Today Novak Outed Plame
And yet Attorney General Mukasey is still preventing us from learning what happened. Five years ago today, on a Monday morning just like today, this happened:Our bedroom was just beginning to show the...
View ArticleRove Tried to Fire Fitzgerald During CIA Leak Investigation
In a supplement to his responses to the House Judiciary Committee, Patrick Fitzgerald confirms what we've always suspected: Karl Rove was trying to have Patrick Fitzgerald fired while Fitzgerald was...
View ArticleThis Miracle Brought to You by America's Unions
(Cross-posted from emptywheel)They're calling it a miracle--the successful landing of a US Airways jet in the Hudson and subsequent rescue of all 155 passengers. They're detailing the heroism of all...
View ArticleBailed Out Bank, JP Morgan, Dooming Chrysler
Cross-posted from emptywheel.The WSJ confirms what we've all probably suspected: the creditors that are forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy are the same banks that have been surviving only with the help...
View ArticleSave 300,000 Jobs--Boycott Chase [Update]
Cross-posted at emptywheelMichigan and Chrysler have about 2 weeks to get JP Morgan Chase to renegotiate Chrysler's debt--or 300,000 people will lose their jobs. To pressure JP Morgan to negotiate, FDL...
View ArticleKSM Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month [Updated]
(Cross-posted from emptywheel) I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183...
View ArticleThey Planted a Gay Whore in Bush's Press Conferences
Cross-posted from http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/I'm going to get to what it means that the AP--purportedly the most neutral source of "news" out there--is harping on the Nico Pitney question. But...
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