Apparently, sympathy was the theme in the jury room for Scooter. Not enough sympathy to acquit him of the charges, but enough to pose some pretty pointed questions about Rove and others in the administration. From E&P: NEW YORK A spokesman for the jury that convicted “Scooter” Lewis of four counts today of perjury and [...]

Wow, that was quick. Anybody want to bet that National Review probably already had it typed up? From NRO: President Bush should pardon I. Lewis “Scooter� Libby. The trial that concluded in a guilty verdict on four of five counts conclusively proved only one thing: A White House aide became the target of a politicized [...]

Here’s your bombshell of the day. Now the only question is…will he do jail time? From the AP: WASHINGTON (AP) – Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. Libby, the former chief [...]

…Richard Armitage. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the source who revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak in 2003, touching off a federal investigation, two sources familiar with Armitage’s role tell CNN. The sources said Armitage revealed Plame’s role at the CIA almost inadvertently in a [...]

The Plame Game…it continues… From the AP: WASHINGTON (AP) – The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District [...]

Just curious … Is the Plame Game still viewed as real news? What I’d really like to know is how much the entire investigation cost taxpayers — now that would be real news :- )

That’s the conclusion of Truthout.org in their non-apology/explanation to their readers. A taste: Yes, it does appear that Truthout was used, but not lied to or misled. The facts appear to have been accurate. We reported them, and in so doing, apparently became an instrument. From all indications, our reports, first on May 13 that [...]

A Republican heavy weighs in on Karl Rove’s non-indictment: “The other team thought they’d sacked the quarterback, and even if he came back he’d limp anyway,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and a Rove confidant, who had lunch with him yesterday. “Now he’s back — no limp.” What they don’t get [...]

Well, well, well…looks like Jason Leopold and his gang over at Truthout have some ‘splaining to do. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Leopold reported on the aforementioned left-wing site that Rove’s indictment was imminent. As we’ve seen from today’s developments, it was not. Now comes the hard part for Truthout…what to do? [...]

Karl is in the clear — another reversal of misfortune for the Bush White House, and another warning sign to the Democrats that their gloating anticipation of a November Congressional victory has been extremely premature.

Well, judging from the noise being made by two CIA agents, the answer is yes. This could mean dark days are ahead for Libby. From the NY Daily News: WASHINGTON – Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors’ charge that Vice President Cheney’s chief aide lied to them, court papers show. Prosecutors say disgraced Cheney [...]

To all of those who said she wasn’t really a covert agent, that she wasn’t really doing anything of importance…well, you’re wrong. She was working on Iran. In fact, she was tracking the ins and outs of their attempts to acquire WMDs. And the Bush administration’s actions most likely harmed that intelligence gathering. From RawStory, [...]

Actually, $10 total. But it might not be as easy as it looks.

I’ve been in the advertising and marketing world for a while now, and with that comes a fair amount of exposure to the production side of the business. What that means, for the purposes of this post, is that I’ve written and produced a fair amount of radio and television commercials. Now, when I’m editing [...]

While many on the left are hyperventilating about the latest little twist in the Plame story, painting it as Bush’s blue dress, voices on the right are shrugging it off as a questionable choice, but nothing more. Cf. Captain Ed: One can argue about the wisdom of George Bush in declassifying the Iraq NIE when [...]

John Podhoretz of The New York Post is moving at about 1000 rpms in an attempt to spin yesterday’s revelation that President Bush himself may have authorized the release of information the resulted in exposing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity. Podhoretz wants us to think this is much-ado-about nothing and lays out an argument [...]

This from the New York Sun: “Defendant testified that he was specifically authorized in advance of the meeting to disclose the key judgments of the classified NIE to Miller on that occasion because it was thought that the NIE was ‘pretty definitive’ against what Ambassador Wilson had said and that the vice president thought that [...]

This is Valerie Plame. Her identity is well known now, so just in case you haven’t seen her picture….well, there it is. Now it appears as if she was working on the Iran problem back in the day during her outing, and that’s what Raw Story talks about today: The unmasking of covert CIA officer [...]

The NY Times talks about when the document Libby leaked was declassified… The National Intelligence Estimate, which was done in October 2002, said that Iraq “will probably have a nuclear weapon during this decade,” but it included some dissenting views. The report was classified. But amid doubts about the rationale for the invasion of Iraq [...]

Well, this is certainly an interesting (and potentially sad) turn of events…. Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend [...]