I started looking back at a few of my earlier postings on the Traitorgate investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson, and at some of Jane's early work as well, trying to find a particular post that I remembered from early on in the investigation. And it dawned on me that a full listing of links to every post, along with a brief description, might be useful for me — and for others who were likewise trying to find a particular post on a narrow subject within the whole.
This has taken me a long time to string together, let me tell you. I knew that we had been writing quite a bit about this subject…but I really had NO idea until I started putting this together. Hopefully someone else will also find this useful. If nothing else, there are some Plameaholics out there who won't be getting much sleep this weekend but, look at it this way: these posts will certainly tide you over until testimony resumes on Monday.
Let me just take a moment to thank the wonderful Emptywheel for all of her liveblogging prowess the last couple of weeks. Amazing work, and we are so grateful for every last minute of it. With Jane and Swopa headed to DC this weekend, the FDL All-Stars will keep giving you live coverage of every possible minute of the Libby trial. But, in the meantime, take a stroll down memory lane with some of the great snark-o-licious Jane gems below. (All of these links are before my time started at FDL — it was this great sort of digging and fabulous writing that drew me to FDL in the first place.)
Anyway, here are the links, in chronological order:
2/9/05: Assessment of media coverage of Traitorgate, with a comparison to Jeff Gannon.
2/19/05: The Gannon/Guckert knowledge of Traitorgate, and Rove.
2/23/05: Comparison to the wingnut treatment of the Gannon story and Traitorgate.
6/27/05: The Miller/Cooper SCOTUS decision and journaistic claims of privilege.
6/30/05: Morality, Bush, and worrying about the next Ken Starr moment.
7/2/05: Karma is a bitch.
7/2/05: Scotty McCellan's briefings and the meaning of chum for the sharks in the water.
7/3/05: The Rovian Defense Squad.
7/4/05: Wherein the argument is made that the information was already disclosed.
7/5/05: Is Judy Miller hiding her behind with the 5th Amendment?
7/6/05: The media and the handing out of free passes.
7/7/05: Judy Miller: tipping off terrorists for fun and profit?
7/7/05: Some background on how Fitz became special prosecutor.
7/9/05: Yet another reason why Bob Novak is beneath contempt.
7/10/05: Newsweek confirms Rove was Cooper's source on Plame (and an assortment of wingnut eating crow quotations).
7/11/05: Nothing like the facts to ruin a perfectly good Steno Sue article.
7/13/05: Wherein one Judith Miller has the NRO turn on her ass. (Who could have predicted that one, I ask you?)
7/13/05: The basics of the investigation.
7/14/05: Wherein David Gregory asks some tough questions of McCLellan and gets no real answers.
7/15/05: In which Rove tries the "I don't recall." defense.
7/15/05: What an ex-CIA agent think of outing a NOC. (Not pleased. And that's an understatement.)
7/16/05: Yet another reason not to trust Bob Novak.
7/17/05: A Billmon gem, comparing Fitz to the Terminator.
7/17/05: Karl Rove isn't telling the whole truth. (Duh.)
7/17/05: On Fitz.
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FITZ!!
Thanks ya’ll!
FITZ and FIREDOG!!!
Christy!
I adore the clift note posts of the days doings…. it is a bitch trying to follow the trial and get ANY work done!
REDD RULEZ!!!1!1
Christy is teh Hot. (much like Emptywheel’s new ‘do)
Ahem.
I’m going to DC, too! I’m important!! Really, I am!
It’s difficult for this observer to understand why Libby took this thing to trial. I must be missing something big time.
Ooooo! The Mother Lode!!
TRex @
7
:~)
TRex @ 7
Of course, you are, TRex! You know we all love you and respect you. (pats tiny little arm of giant therapod, ever so gently). You are VERY important to the FDL community.
Got my copy of Anatomy of Deceit today. I’ll dig in right after warmup exercises above.
Yay FDL!
TRex @
7
right out of the Dickerson playbook. oh, how the mighty have fallen. … :~)
Oh, Christy how fun is this? Hopefully, if I read them slow enough, these links should hold me over to Monday. Except, when I got home from work today, Amazon had put a package in my golf cart which I keep by my front door.
I finally received Anatomy of Deceit, by Marcy Wheeler. I now have weekend plans!
Thanks for stringing the posts together and I can’t wait to read Jane’s early time posts.
katymine @ 4
Work, the curse of the blogging classes *G*
*sniffle*
Thank you.
Can I have a cupcake?
TRex @
7
Rex from Toy Story still seeking validation.
TRex!
PS My favorite and oft-quoted line from Rex:
Oh great, now I have guilt!
I know this is after the cutoff date of your time frame, but one of the threads that I keep going back to is 16 Words, where Marcy’s book was announced. She invited us to answer a couple of questions:
(embedded links at the original post)
The answers, especially to that last one, are inspiring. I re-read that thread the day before the trial started, and the posts over the last two weeks have made me even more proud of FDL.
Thanks, Marcy, Christy, Jane, and the cast of thousands who hang out around here.
wow…groovy, Christy, this is GREAT!!
Is it possible for any indictments to be forthcoming as a result of the Libby trial?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 20
Yes.
Shuster on hardball…
smoking gun about weapons of mass distruction (my words).
Tweety WMD is not why we went to Iraq… I never thought that was why we went.
Reallly!
Wow, Christy, this is great. Thank you so much for this!
Rayne @ 19
cool blast from the past. notice the numbe rof comments per thread: 3, 7, 8, etc.
This is a great refresher. I mean, I have a good idea of what’s gone; I’ve read Joe Wilson’s book (and, YES! I’ve ordered Marcy’s), however time constraints and work make it hard to follow along as closely as I want. I have to make due with end-of-day summaries and after work reading.
TRex @ 21
Probable indictments?
xpost – I don’t mean this in a creepy way, but in the video blogs, Ms. Wheeler is distractingly attractive.
Christie,
Yummy! My book hasn’t arrived yet, so this will make my weekend. Thanks.
Well, thanks for this, and for all that preceded it. And Jane, when you get to DC, give ‘em Harry Truman’s version of hell.
Olbermann in ‘12′.
I like the contrasting styles/body language of Jeralyn and Marcy. Jeralyn is pretty animated and kind of winds up in anticipation of making a comment. Marcy is more stoic, but with a subtle wry sense of wit and twinkle of the eye.
Christy, hope the steamer works for the Peanut. When the last few weeks have taken so much out of you (and the rest of the FDL team!), it takes a lot out of her as well.
Oil’s real well for Exxon; $39B profit biggest ever in U.S.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I love this one linked above:
As someone who is still choking on the bile that came up over a bunch of sanctimonious old hacks hijacking the constitution and sitting in judgment of Bill Clinton, I would personally like to invite every one of them to dine on a delightful repast of their own words.
If revenge is a dish best served cold, you better eat fast, you bastards. This one’s heating up.
P.S. Oh, NYT, WaPo? You got scooped by the fucking McLaughlin Group. You should all be disembowling yourselves in shame. –JANE HAMSHER
http://firedoglake.blogspot.co…..bitch.html
Jacqrat @
6
New do? Where? I’d love to see it.
Walter Dellinger, Fmr. Acting Solicitor General & David Rivkin, Fmr. Justice Dept. Official – C SPAN VIDEO
discuss Congress’ constitutional powers to limit or end the Iraq war as proposed in several resolutions that may be debated next week in the Senate.
Hillary To Donors: “No Money To Anybody Else”
Hillary Clinton is personally putting out the word that she has no intention of sharing the wealth: “She’s calling all the big-hitter fundraisers and saying, ‘I want you to understand: NO money to anybody else. You cannot play both sides of the street,’” in the ‘08 presidential race, says a longtime Democratic operative who has worked for the Clintons in the past but turned down a role in the current campaign, and is so far sitting this one out.
And what’s the reaction been? “People don’t like it, but they’re afraid of her.” Yet the far more palpable fear for Democrats, discussed constantly, is that she’ll have so much money she’ll sail to the nomination.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..40209.html
Just want to take the opportunity to say thanks to all at FDL (visitors and regulars) for covering this case so well (Christy, Jane, Marcy, Jeralyn, Swopa, etc.). Marcy’s book hasn’t arrived yet (Amazon says they sent it out yesterday), so this post will be great to look at over the weekend.
I noticed that except for Shuster, noone in the MSM seems to be talking about the fact that according to the FBI Libby said that he may have talked to the VP about discussing Plame with the media. Should I get my tin hat adjusted?
I saw this in Editor and Publisher:
As always, we will base our updates here mainly on nearly minute-by-minute blogging from the courthouse by the women at FireDogLake.com, which has proven extremely accurate so far, along with other bloggers and wire service reports as they come in.
Skoal!!!
Olbermann!
Bush cooking the books on number of troops for the escalation.
I love that guy!
Republicans and Congress’ war powers — then and now
by Glenn Greenwald
TRex @
16
With sprinkles.
Sorry to cross post — not sure which Plame thread is more active …
One thing I’m confused about: agent Bond says that Scooter told her he 1st heard about Plame from Chaney in June ‘03.
But didn’t Cathie Martin say that she told Scooter and Cheney at that same time that her conversation with her counterpart in the CIA revealed that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA?
Is the clarification that Cheney looked into Plame’s employement and then gave Scooter more detail about Plame’s position?
1,423 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen oklahoma kiddo and the Firepup Patriots:
“It’s difficult for this observer to understand why Libby took this thing to trial…”
First of all, I think it’s his leverage… if he didn’t take it to trial he would be at the mercy of his fascist masters for a pardon of his plea-conviction. And he wouldn’t get the plea unless he gave up the big fish to Fitz. I think that the fact that Libby hasta play this out ta keep pressure on the White House is our first real look at a fault-line between the Cheney forces and Bushco. These slimy bastards are all scramblin’ ta cover themselves and they aren’t above fuckin’ their old buddies if it’ll get ‘em offa the hook.
And in answer to yer other question about more indictments: if there is a conviction here, there will be indictments the next week. Indeed, there may already be indictments to unseal when this trial is over.
KEEP THE FAITH AND KEEP YER EYES OPEN, THEY’RE GUNNA BE COMIN’ OUTTA THE WOODWORK!!!
‘No money to anybody else. You can’t play both sides of the street.’
hmmm. Suspiciously like the ‘K St. Project’ eh?
Is today’s Politics TV Libby Trial briefing featuring Teh Magnificent Marcy available for viewing yet? (I missed most of the day on account of work, dammit).
What is the consensus after today’s Bond hearing?
Yay! I love sprinkles!
*claps tiny forelimbs*
Here is one of Janes earlier posts that first points the finger at Scooter,courtesy of Jeralyn.
http://firedoglake.blogspot.co…..e-101.html
Jeebus, preview is my friend.
NorskeFlamethrower @ 44
The thinking here runs along these lines also. I want to see ‘The’ big fish (Bush) sizzle.
Oh hoooo KO just called Darth Chaney “Dick Deadeye” …..woooohoo….. ya think someone is reading the blogs?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 8
Yep. Big Time
Hillary Clinton is absolutely ruthless. I don’t like ruthless people. Male of female.
Apparently Bush thought he could deceive the American people one more time. Instead of 21,500 troops in the “surge,” it may be as high as 48,000. He failed to mention that the 21,500 would all be combat troops, and support troops would be in addition to that.
What exactly am I missing? Seriously.
FROM E AND P: http://www.editorandpublisher……1003540604
FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney
Scooter Libby
By E&P Staff and The Associated Press
Published: February 01, 2007 10:00 AM ET updates all day
…As always, we will base our updates here mainly on nearly minute-by-minute blogging from the courthouse by the women at FireDogLake.com, which has proven extremely accurate so far, along with other bloggers and wire service reports as they come in.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 55
I think it’s a play on ‘Big Time’ as in Darth Vadar…
Markey @
39
They’re for profit, aren’t they? Hope they’re kicking in to the FDL kitty. Add .07 to tag it for Libby trial coverage — and have a nice day! :)
I still think Cheney, Rove AND Bush knew what Libby was up to. This is an administration that was characterized as extremely tightly run, and loyalty was uppermost.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 59
ANd Fitz wouldn’t let him cop a plea unless he burned them, which he wouldn’t so…
Here we are, and Deadeye has promised to help. But like in the Mafia movies, Scooter keeps his mouth shut, does his time, The Company looks after Mrs L and the little L’s, nice pension when he gets out.
It’s like signing up for the military — you know you might get shot but your grateful country will look after you. Well, maybe not such a good analogy.
From the tubes perspective, it appears that Agent Bond was a damn good witness for the prosecution. I was somewhat discouraged yesterday after seeing Jerilyn and Marcy’s report on Pol TV. Has hope been restored by Agent Bond’s testimony?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 59
I agree and you win a cigar.
HotFlash @ 60
Ah, but there is Frankie Five Fingers who had a special visitor in prison. Because in crime families even loyalty isn’t enough.
just got my copy of “anatomy of deceit” today. i will start reading right after olbermann.
thanks for the links. i remember reading many of those posts. seems like time flies around the lake…
Speaking of Plame and the testimony, like everyone else, I was taken with the [Wilson=Snake] and [Tim_hates_Chris] comments in Libby’s note about Matalin. But now that I look at that note again …
…what strikes me is that on July 10th, Matalin says, “We need to address Wilson motivation.” At that time, she wasn’t working for the OVP, or even the government, yet she knows to go after Wilson’s motivation, suggesting she, too, knew about Plame. If so, how did she know?
Is she another early “leak?” Did Libby tell her about Plame too? Do all of you know the answer and I’ve just missed it along the way?
Mickey @
65
I don’t know the answer, but I do remember that her name surfaced in the early speculation regarding who leaked. She was doing that “K Street” HBO docudrama thing with Soderberg (sp?) at the time and it came up. She vehemently denied it (so did Carville I think).
One could argue (and I’m sure her defenders would) that she meant by “motivation” that they should go after Wilson’s political ties- and not Plame. They were using lots of talking points to discredit him, one of them being that he was an Al Gore supporter and that Wilson went public simply to embarass the administration.
1,423 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Oklahoma kiddo and the Firepup Patriots:
“what exactly am I missing? Seriously.”
Absolutely nuthin’, kiddo…absolutely nuthin’. As usual, you are right on the money about traitorgate and about Mrs. Clinton.
The corporatists are makin their play right now for total control of the Democratic Party thru Mrs. Clinton and the AIPAC-DLC folks in the congressional leadership (read this as:Rahm Emmanuel, Steny Hoyer, Mrs. Clinton, Joe Biden, Harry Reid and our old friend Joe Likuderman). I think that Al Gore is our “white knight” here and Mrs. Clinton knows if she doesn’t have it sown up by this fall, Big Al will step in over the dead bodies in January of ‘08 and kick ass all the way to the White House. I think Al Gore scares the hell outta Mrs. Clinton (not much does) and she’s gunna hafta kill everybody else off and use up a good portion of her money doin it before Al will step in and kick her skanky ass back ta upstate NY.
KEEPTHE FAITH AND DON’T GIVE THAT NASTY BITCH ONE DIME!!!
Mickey @ 65
Very interesting point. Wasn’t she a member of the Iraq war group with Perle et al?
By the way a brilliant NPR interview with Norman Mailer on now. All about the Iraq war mess and the neo-con ideology, and evil. Amazing.
TRex- when are you going to DC? I can edit post appropriately…. I think I’ve earned that much…
Mickey @ 65
And the President should wave his wand
Bwahahahahaha! “You and your little dog, too…”
Prairie Sunshine @
63
Could happen — but Scooter will be good, as his family w/b hostages while he is in stir. It’s funny, we find this a hard stretch to believe such things could happen here and now, but it’s pretty common when you read through history. In 1500 hundred years the HBO equivalent will run a historical potboiler series called “DC”
FYI, John Dickerson is going to be on Washington Week in Review discussing the Libby trial. Why do I think that wasn’t such a hot choice?
Alice @ 73
He is such a bush tool – and self promoter.
On July 8 he wrote down notes in which Rove said, people are taking Wilson as a credible expert. 2 days go by, he calls Matalin for advice. She tells him, she gives him strategy.
I really trust Mary Matalin’s husband James Carville to set aside his wife’s politics to do his best work for the democrats now don’t you?
Because Dickerson’s a dick, that’s why.
Meanwhile elsewhere in Cheneyville
TRex — you are spoiling my TRex Is in town special posting bonanza. *pout* As if you and your tiny forelimbs don’t deserve a confetti strewn extravaganze post all their own!
I had to leave the thread downstairs before it was done and a train of conversation evolved that I want to comment
first, there is no discussion whether or not Valery was covert, the special prosecutor told it to us in no uncertain terms and it was the cia themselves that initiated the investigation.
so the fact that morons suggest she wasn’t covert just demonstrates their “moronditude”, [a word I just invented}
anyway, I want to add layers to the very definition of “covert” and once told what I’m going to say is self evident, but needs to be spoken to be realized
even though the covert status is usually thought of in terms of “either covert or not”, there are very distinct categories of covert that CIA operatives use, and not so distinct as well, there are layers and layers that most people don’t appreciate of covert opps and operatives…there’s an almost endless list of components.
Some cover is real thin and disposable, meaning a person could be enlisted for a particular opp, then once the opp is complete, their life continues as though they were never involved. Other forms of cover are so layered and deep that they even anticipate probing into the operative from every facet of a person’s life.
there is also cover as thin as “works for the CIA but not undercover” while in fact that is their cover
once one of these opps are exposed as being under cover, that’s the end of their effectiveness in that capacity and that cover is blown.
but none of those layers have anything to do with this case, we know as a fact brewster jennings and associates had to close shop because Valery was exposed…this brutal fact is all anyone has to point to if they want to disabuse the morons who have moronditude concerning the value of Valery as a vital asset to our countrie’s national security
Scarborough is really unloading on Bush…offended that Bush claims Republican opponents of escalation are aiding the enemy.
So, the big news of the day is the revelation that the Vice President and his COS, according to FBI testimony on Libby’s first interview with them, may have conspired to commit an act of treason, and the MSM apparently gave it NO coverage on the evening news shows. NBC did not, and I watched in vain for it on CBS (though they gave impending SuperBowl ads and the Boston Cartoon Terror panic ample play). Did ABC blow it off as well?
_
neurophius @ 79
I’m really diggin scarborough lately, I have to tell you
My copy of Anatomy of Deceit came today! Marcy, I am very grateful for all your work this week. You have done a great service to the people of this country. Thank you.
neurophius @ 79
I am REALLY tired of that dipshit “aiding the enemy” canard. Our Middle Eastern adversaries are fully aware of the ongoing level of dissent in this country. They don’t base their tactics and strategy on anything we think. They could give a shit about any of our polls, including Bush’s JAR.
_
perris @ 81
Yes, it’s giving me brain farts. I am so in love with my prejudices!
They keep using that word (conservative) . . . .
if Libby Did take the stand imagine the questions from the jury….
LindaR @ 85
republcians are NOT concervative, they are extreme
when a party is in the mainstream of ideas, THEY are the concervatives
a real concervative wants to concerve our envirnment, concerve our economy, concerve our resources, concerve our national interest, concerve out armed forces.
a concervative has to be a moderate, anything else is extreme, not concervative
neo cons are neither concervative nor republicans, they are fascists, they have highjacked the republican party and are holding it hostage to their fringe, extreme, selfish and damaging idiology
perris, May I add conserve our constitution and civil liberties. thanks
Eureka Springs, AR @ 88
oh, that’s the best one
everyone’s upstairs by the way
thanks
kingfish @ 86
Yeah, “What the f*** were you thinking?”
Maya Angelou tribute to Molly Ivins up now for Friday’s edition of the WaPoo.
Christy — I would love to hear the story of how you got hooked up with Jane and started writing for fdl. Have you already written it, and is it archived somewhere?
I Just wanted to say thanks for all the work you guys are doing..I am waiting for you to write that
Libby is guilty, and that as a result of this trial Cabeza de Riccardo aka dickhead gets brought down, and in an avalanche of disgust bush is found to be what we all know he is, and he gets to wave goodbye from air force one on his way to Texas in total disgrace to await his trial for crimes against humanity..am I being too unrealistic-I think not.
Again Thank you
neurophius @
79
I was watching Keith Olbermann and kept it on MSNBC when Scarborough came on. Yeah, I heard that. However what he’s railing about is something that has been going on for many of us for the past five years – and oh, now – he’s “offended”?
Buchanan was railing about the war, but he always has as an isolationist. But then he gets on his shrill tangents and it’s time to move on.
Oh thanks so much for sharing all this work. I have a feeling these articles are going to be a resource for quite a while yet.
Thanks FDL for the great coverage. I’m addicted, I can’t get any work done, it’s carzy! I even had the threads pop up in my dreams last night. Can’t wait to read TRex coverage of the trial, GO BIG GREEN, yeah.
Awesome, thank you so much Christy. I am bookmarking for much future reference.