It’s hard to post when your bloggy compatriots are doing such an able job of covering and analyzing the salient points of what’s amounting to be a debacle, but after last night I thought it was time to emerge from my bunker and have at it.
What we’re looking at here is one of the most [...]

Those are big smooches landing smack on Scooter’s “other cheek.” I did not know this. But, Jane Hampsher at FireDogLake, who covered the Scooter Libby trial like no other blogger, had plenty to say: “Pardoning Scooter — Still A Bad Idea, Senator Obama.” Here’s the scoop from The Hill about Obama’s top general counsel:

Just a little pot/kettle fun: If Harold Ford hadn’t gotten so desperate and gone nauseatingly phony, rightwing, and over-the-top come-to-Jesus at the end of his Senate campaign, Tennessee wouldn’t have that intellectual giant Bob Corker as its new junior senator. However, even Sen. Corker sees the problem in the White House: About [...]

Football’s not the only national Sunday contact sport. (However, I am curious: Do any of you think the Patriots can (will?) lose a game this season?)
Memo to the Obama campaign from the regulars at No Quarter who know what Novak is capable of and who followed every minute of “Plamegate”: CONSIDER THE [...]

UPDATE — A Fun Interview with Valerie Plame Wilson on Her Movie Deal: “Plame on spy movies and going Hollywood,” at Politico.com (Tidbits: “We have a powerful script.” … “[T]here’s a story of political intrigue, an espionage story and a love story. It’s about the loss of innocence, about speaking truth to power. And [...]

With Electric Politics providing some technical assistance, Larry Johnson interviews his former CIA classmate Valerie Plame Wilson, author of Fair Game. Click the “Audio mp3″ icon to listen or download here. Total runtime thirty five minutes (and please use the link on this page to buy the book).
It’s a fascinating conversation between two seasoned intelligence [...]

Posted by Jim Marcinkowski
SECRET/NOFORN/NOMORONS/NOREPUBS/NOPOLITOCOS/NOHACKS
TO: CIA STATIONS WORLDWIDE
FM: LEGAL COUNSEL – LANGLEY, VIRGINIA
RE: DISMISSAL OF WILSON/PLAME DISCLOSURE CASE – SUMMARY
REF: Valerie Plame Wilson et al v. I. Lewis Libby, et al.
As you are no doubt aware, last week Judge John D. Bates of the federal district court in WDC dismissed the Wilson case. While you operate overseas in [...]

Patrick Fitzgerald gets quizzed on today’s airing of the deservedly popular NPR show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.” Reports the Progress Report:
[Thursday], in a “rare public appearance,” U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald “submitted himself to questions as a guest on Chicago Public Radio’s comedic quiz show, ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.’” Although “Fitzgerald flunked the quiz, a [...]

Breaking! President Bush will undergo a colonoscopy under anesthesia tomorrow during which time Vice President Cheney will assume control. I can hear the proctologist now: “That’s a rather large polyp! It’s nearly the size of a normal human brain. I am probing the polyp. Its exterior is calcified but the interior appears putrid.”
During July 18’s [...]

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Larry C Johnson
Today’s decision by one judge who dismissed the civil suit Joe and Valerie Wilson filed against Dick Cheney and others for the leak of Valerie’s covert identity is not unexpected and entirely procedural. If you are really interested you can read the opinion for yourself. I was particularly intrigued that Judge [...]

Today, the House Judiciary Committee holds this hearing beginning at noon EDT:
VIEW LIVE WEBCAST
Wednesday 07/11/2007 – 12:00 PM | 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Full Committee Hearing on: The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials | By Direction of the Chairman
(List of Witnesses – also listed at the end of [...]