OK, this news item linked today by Mac Ranger is news to me – though it does predate this blog and my newly focused attention to news stories. But this is just stunning: (Filed: 14/12/2003) Iraq’s coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 […]

** Updates at end, keep checking back ** Good news for Karl Rove and the Bush administration as special counsel Fitzgerald finally realizes (I assume after numerous failed attempts with the grand jury) that he has nothing on Karl Rove that would not apply to his ‘star witnesses’. That of course is the reality of […]

In a very well structured piece, the WSJ notes the lunacy and weakness around Fitzgerald’s case against Scooter Libby. It is a great read, and exposes what could be the root problem here – The Grand Jury process. Fitzgerald obviously controlled the flow and substance of information going to the Grand Jury to get indictments […]

In Fitzgerald’s latest filing he demonstrates a level of twisted logic (immersed in tortured english grammar) I find stunning. To us mathematically oriented the terms ‘likely’ and ‘unlikely’ are ends of a common spectrum called ‘probability’. On one end is the probability of zero, the other end a probability of 1 (which equates to 100%). […]

Fitzgerald’s case is taking on water faster than I thought. In a 40 page decision (H/T Tom Maguire at JOM), Judge Walton gave Libby all sorts of impeachable information against Fitzgerald’s witnesses. He did let Miller’s schedule and phone records be excluded, but as you read through it seems there was other evidence that could […]

Scooter Libby won a decision against Time and Cooper, which doesn’t bode well for the other media outlets and personalities facing subpoenas or Fitzgerald: A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak […]

Want to know what the best political theatre will be next January? It will be when VP Dick Cheney is examined on the witness stand by Prosecutor Fitzgerald: Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested Cheney would be a logical government witness because he could authenticate notes he jotted on a July 6, 2003, New York Times […]

One thing that could be holding back Fitzgerald’s indictment of Rove is the fact his key witness – Richard Armitage – is as guilty as Rove is, as The Prowler points out today: The New York Daily News reported last week that “Two sources familiar with the case said Armitage, Rove and Libby all had […]

Jack Kelley has a great piece out today at RCP which discusses how this summer it will be the investigation of rogue personnel in the US government who have leaked critical information to our enemies through our press that provides the spectacle and the splash: After all the cheerleading journalists have done for Mr. Fitzgerald, […]

Team Libby has a whopper of a filing on their subpoenas to reporters (here) on the details of the subpoenas. One that caught my eye was to CNN (page 22 of 43) and aimes at Eason Jordan. I guess Jordan can thank Joe Wilson for the lawyers fees he will be incurring since Wilson mentioned […]