Judith Miller was not jailed because she had committed a crime. She was jailed because she refused to obey a court order, which ordered her to testify before a grand jury and reveal her sources.

Miller was a witness to a potential crime–the possibly-unauthorized divulgation by someone (the “source”) within the administration of classified information. Nobody–not even a purported journalist–is exempt from testifying to matters to which he or she is a witness.

CSPAN doing the dinner tape right now!
(9:30AM PDT)

Jiminy, good game from Mary!

I am in complete agreement about the lemon juice – I am gloomily aware that an awful lot of what I write ultimately amounts to a faith-based inititiative.

I also agree about the “direct evidence” point, and try to note that when I do a full fledged post (Honestly!).

However, I try to sneak that quote past others, especially on comment threads other than mine, or when Jeff may not be around. Darn.

All that said, I think (semi-faith based) that Fitzgerald is also lacking in indirect evidence, and was hoping for more from Ms. Miller.

Put another way – I don’t think Fitzgerald is shy, and I do think that in various filings a clear statement that he had evidence that Libby knew Ms. Plame’s status was classified would have helped his argument.

And, IMHO, his failure to indict Libby for perjury on his testimony that he did not believe Plame to be classified is also telling – it certainly makes me think that Fitzgerald cannot prove the opposite.

Well – good job, anyway.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Y.shtml

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll continue to keep the champagne on ice. But a little optimism’s not a bad thing.

I’ve been hanging around here at the end of the Late Nite FDL thread for a while, so at least one person shuffled over to see Karzai with Scoots.

I think most FDL regulars are aware of the fund raising efforts of Libby. They’re a sharp bunch. But thanks for posting the link just in case.

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http://www.scooterlibby.com/

(I’m probably very late to the party with this URL discovery, but just in case…)

Any democrat can freely admit that politics is a desultory business and perhaps all politicians lie and are somewhat corrupt or at least are prostitutes. But there are important shades-of-grey-differences between the democratic ilk and the republican ilk that Naderites failed to discern and which ushered in what may well someday be known as the second Dark Ages, the age of Bush:

On the democrat ledger we have:
** Clinton tried to mask an extra-marital BJ in the office;

On the republican ledger:
** abused the government and media during the Clinton years to thwart the will of the American people in hounding a popular President with extensive false and specious charges;
** illegal, unnecessary invasion of sovereign nations;
** illegal torture and rendition;
** illegal spying on Americans;
** anti-constitutional dictatorial grab of executive power;
** extensive corruption and abuse of power for self-enrichment and for enrichment of the obscenely rich;
** extensive cronyism at the expense of the American’s well being and security;
** dismantling of regulations to free corporate interests to abuse Americans and America..

If anyone ever again says there is no difference between democrats and republicans be conscious-free in promptly spitting their face.
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