Because of the sheer amount of evidence introduced in the case, it could take several days for the jury to reach a verdict. They started at 11:30 AM this morning after Judge Walton gave them their instructions (nothing unusual, but you can read about the instructions here). Team Libby has apparently been playing things so […]
Tim Russert’s testimony in the Lewis Libby trial today was exactly what it was expected to be: dammaging. And Libby’s lawyers were unsuccessful at making him look bad or cast doubt on Russert’s testimony. Libby had previously claimed he first learned of Plame’s identity from Russert, in a phone conversation on July 8. The conversation […]
The defense scored a major setback today in the trial of Lewis Libby when it was announced not long ago that audio testimony from Libby’s appearances before a grand jury will be released to the public.
As I’d written earlier, several news organizations were considering suing the court if Judge Walton (who considered the matter over […]
Evidently the Libby trial will make a turn towards the totally awkward, according to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, who writes about the case as though it was a rumor in high school or something. According to Isikoff, it’s going to get, like, totally awkward for the White House.
What’s the scoop? Well, evidently Team Libby has been […]
With so much attention going to the trial of former Vice Presidential aide Lewis Libby, which just began this week, the media has discovered a little pre-game show to cover.
Because the trial is currently in the phase of selecting jurors, there is not much in the way of unexpected moves from the defense and prosecution, […]
Okay so get this. According to Newsweek, former CIA agent Valerie Plame has written a book about her experiences with the CIA and how her identity was outed by the Bush Administration for political reasons in mid-2003 after her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson spoke out against the war in Iraq and criticized the Administration […]
I usually hate to quote this much from an article, but this is newsworthy. The Associated Press reports that Vice President Cheney will be called to testify for the Defense side in the Libby trial, scheduled to start early next year:
Vice President Dick Cheney will be called to testify on behalf of his former chief […]
Hilarious. The first witness in the Lewis Libby trial is a memory expert. She’s trying to defend him and his fake little “memory problem.” Here’s the problem. This supposed memory expert forgot that she had met Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald before going into the courtroom and denied that she had. Further, she forgot what her […]
$21.45 million. That’s roughly how much Kenneth ‘I love writing about oral sex almost as much as Bill O’Reilly does‘ Starr spent in the first three years of his eight-year politically-motivated investigation of whether or not former President Clinton cheated on his wife or not, and also the whole (entirely cooked up) Whietwater debackle. And […]
Apparently the Valerie and Joe are going to add Richard Armitage to the lawsuit. If you believe to the traditional media’s (and conservative’s) narrative about how Armitage leaked the name by mistake, then the suit against him doesn’t seem that strong. On the other hand however, he has admitted he did something he shouldn’t have […]
As predicted earlier today, Jason Leopold has published a new article on the CIA leak case. In it, Leopold dispells the theory which the traditional press is promoting; that since Armitage was Novak’s original source it means that everything is safe for the White House.
By reminding us what we do know that special prosecutor Patrick […]
Just a quick heads up here.
With the new developments in the CIA leak story, I have it from an absolutely unimpeachable source (okay, Jason himself) that Jason Leopold will be publishing an interesting new article over at Truthout sometime today, most likely within a few hours this afternoon. I’ll link to it when it is […]
Fresh news in the CIA leak case- Richard Armitage has confirmed that he was one of Novak’s sources.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn’t be any blunter.
“Oh I feel terrible. Every day, I think I let down the […]
For your entertainment, I bring you part four of our continuing series “replying to right-wingers.” Part one of the series as well as a short explanation can be found here. The following exchange was in discussing PlameGate. Today’s installment is extra long and jam packed with juicy quotes and embarrassing misspellings (on the part of […]
Only recently has it been confirmed that Richard Armitage was Robert Novak’s source for Valerie Plame’s identity (thanks to the Associated Press), but a new book is going to reveal that the State Department knew this– and more– for years.
According to an upcoming book Hubris, coauthored by Michael Isikoff of Newsweek Magazine, the State Department […]
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