Walton appears upset over the release Tuesday night of a letter from Fitzgerald to the judge correcting one sentence in a prosecution filing from a week ago.

Libby’s defense team released the letter to reporters via e-mail Tuesday night. The letter didn’t show up on the court’s docket until Wednesday afternoon.

But the Post and the Times for tomorrow are much less clear on the source of the letter, and in fact if anything appear to suggest it came from Fitzgerald rather than Team Libby. It’s easy to imagine Fitzgerald might have wanted to get word out to the press outlets that had written unintentionally misleading stories asap, though I sort of doubt he would circumvent normal procedures that way. It’s also easy to imagine Team Libby wanted to get this out asap and first to the more friendly outlets. Especially since today’s York story seems so obviously written at Comstock’s bidding, to reassure Cheney that he is not in danger from Libby and is not deserving of suspicion.

I was surprised to see my innocent question to clarice described in the previous thread as a punking. It was just genuine curiosity.

What are the chances of MEK having a handful of agents infilitrating al-Queda say in the ’90s to preform some unknown actions for their handlers in the early years of the 21st century? Or am I better off not knowing?

Behind the NYTimes’ “TimesSelect” wall, i found this Eric Lichtblau piece titled ” Top Names Aid Fund for Libby “:

The group includes some of the Republican Party’s best-known leaders, including two former presidential candidates, Jack F. Kemp and Steve Forbes. Others include former Senators Fred Thompson of Tennessee and Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the ambassador to the United Nations under President Ronald Reagan.

Bernard Lewis, the Princeton scholar who is a historian of the Middle East, and R. James Woolsey, who served as director of central intelligence under President Bill Clinton, have also joined the group.

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She (Barbara Comstock) said the supporters would serve on an advisory committee for a private group organized to aid in Mr. Libby’s defense, to be known as the Libby Legal Defense Trust.

The supporters are most likely to assist in both organizing the fund-raising drive and providing money themselves. Among others who have committed to the effort are Howard Leach and the lobbyist Wayne Berman, who were fund-raisers for President Bush’s political campaigns; Bill Paxon, the former Republican congressman from New York; former Ambassadors Mel Sembler and Dennis Roth; Richard Carlson, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1992 to 1997; the magazine publisher Philip Merrill, who is also a former president and ex-chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

It was Bushco who first pressured for another PM.

On NPR Fresh Air on 4/12/06, Sy Hersh said the reason BushCo wants to dump the leading candidate for Iraq PM is that he is committed to calling for a US withdrawl.

Bush is all for democracy, as long as he gets to be dictator.