OK, I’ll bite. Is there an alternate blog universe going on here?

I’m 45 years old with 40% grey hair and 60% brown hair. I have english/german ancestry.

Did I miss a post here?

Troubled

katie jensen (117) — was thinking of Craig Spence, in particular, circa same era and same scandal.

Bionic (142) — hmm. I don’t know about a horse-head. I think there were enough dark players looking to ensure they got what they needed out of this administration that G/G could have been their boy. It would merely be a bonus if G/G had also caught a few other flies in the honeypot, could ensure leverage. Perhaps that’s how the Repugs managed to stay so tight and on party line during their majority…

Gannon played two roles, IMO. The I laid out previously and as the putative Bureau Chief for Talon News, he was the face for the propaganda machine that spread the WH talking points out into the small Republican websites and little local papaers and to Limp and BOR who would talk to Gannon and the “news” which would then legitimize it and thus get picked up by the MSM.

Most of the Talon News posting were barely rewritten press releases and any official writing by “Gannon” is dissimilar to the writing he did on his own after the fact. Maybe he just showed up at hte WH to pick up his copy. ;o)

Talon News wasn’t even up as a website when he got clearance as a daily visitor to the WH press corps and Gannon had no journalist bona fides. Or even copy, I think.

Personally, I think he came off off as a vain blowhard, desperate to be admired but not very smart.
If you ask me, that’s a perfect combination for someone like Rove to use. Stroke his ego while he is useful and he’ll happily do whatever you ask. But easily disposable.

Sally @ 134

Wonder what was factored into Wells’ decision to take Libby’s case. Besides money.

Moolah, wampum, dough, shekels?

More than that — celebrity. Litigators like high profile cases. Even if the case is hopeless. Indeed, especially if the case is hopeless. Wells won’t be blamed if Libby is convicted.

Litigatormom #46:

Libby is an attorney. I find it really odd that Addington would have to say something like that to him at all. Libby was finding out at that moment that he was somehow going to be thrown under the bus. Addington was basically saying, I can’t help you, “get your affairs in order”, I’ll get you a copy of the crime you might have committed. “The Aspens are turning.”

Just because Libby is an attorney doesn’t mean he didn’t need the reminder (as an attorney, he should also know better than to lie to the FBI and the GJ!), but having said that, I think you may be right. Libby may have thought “we’re all on the same side,” but Addington strikes me as someone who doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and he may have considered Libby a fool at that point.

annx @ 67

Raw Story has Schuster’s take on Judy, Judy, Judy’s testimony. Most hilarious thing … look at the photo. That’s not Judy – that’s an actress that usually plays psycho out of control women. ROTF.

Rawstorylink

Wtf, that’s the psycho from Desperate Housewives….

Hey, this past weekend in an FDL thread I said she (the pictured actress) should play Judy in the Plame movie!

Lots to learn…

I once heard that one unwritten rule around the DC government establishment is that you never, ever ask a person what they do. If they can tell you, they will. If they can’t, they’ll have to lie. Either way, what have you actually gained? You aren’t sure of the answer either way.

Nah, I’ve lived here all my life, and people ask that just as much as they do out in the real world. For the people who actually work for intelligence agencies, there are any number of ways to say “I work for the government” without being too specific, and people who are actually covert have a cover story.

It’s probably true that most people know that if someone says says “I work for the government” without being specific, there’s no point in asking further, though for a lot of jobs people will simply say “I can’t tell you.” The other distinction is that you can tell someone is a contractor or beginner instead of career if they enjoy the fact that they can’t tell you.

Rather like “remote viewing“, only fuzzier.

sweetgumroot at 157 — Well, secretly (or not so secretly at this point), I’m an avid InStyle reader. So the details on the attire are just fun color commentary for everyone. :)

Speaking of the costumes–I wanted to see Fitz today, someone said there was a photo of him today at the LA Times but I couldn’t find it. Anyone know where I can see the prosecution team coming in today?