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.
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