1.23.2007

More on Scooter Libby/CIA Spy Leak/PlameGate trial

Also from Larry Johnson's No Quarter, including how it's said Libby lied about Cheney's "close involvement":

Marcy Wheeler aka Emptywheel -- author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy, 097917610701_aa240_sclzzzzzzz_v47812545_
which comes out at Amazon on January 28 -- is live-blogging the opening statements: Patrick Fitzgerald's opening and the defense's opening. I just had trouble opening a page at FireDogLake, which is comprehensively liveblogging every minute of the trial; if you have trouble too, keep trying. (NOTE: HuffingtonPost blog is supposed to cross-post the FDL team's live blogging, but I can't find the posts there.)

Below, the latest MSNBC story, "Prosecutor: Libby 'wiped out' Cheney memo," and then there are Byron York's mad scribblings on how Libby was the fall guy and was "sacrificed" to save Karl Rove's hide...