I have to say that the knowledge that reporters in the courthouse media room had about the Libby case was remarklably good, certainly far more comprehensive than the thick-witted credulity shown by Steno Sue Schmidt and others as the shoveled one press release after another issued by Arkansas political operatives onto the front pages of the Washington Post during Whitewater. Even when the story made patently no sense reporters failed to ask appropriate questions. I do not know whether Glenn Greenwald is right and blogs are having an influence, but it did seem that the abililty of the Barbara Comstocks of the world to fob off outrageous spin as fact was somewhat diminished in this case.
One of those journalists was James Gordon Meeks, who said we "owned" the story on Washington Journal in the video above.
And he wasn't the only one who noticed. Glenn Greenwald did too, and Jeff Jarvis had this to say:
In the rearchitecture of news, what needs to happen is that people are driven to the best coverage, not the 87th version of the same coverage. This will work for publications and news organizations. It will also work for individuals; this is how a lone reporter’s work (and reputation) can surface. We saw that happening with the Libby trial and Firedoglake’s liveblogging of it. As Jay Rosen said at our NPR confab last week — and I’ve heard this elsewhere — theirs became the best source for keeping up on the trial. Reporters and editors knew it and were using it. So those same reporters and editors should have been sending their readers to the blog as a service: ‘We’re not liveblogging it, but they are. We’ll give you our analysis and reporting later. Enjoy.’ That is where the architecture of news must go because links enable it and economics demand it.
If you're one of the people who contributed to the publication of Marcy's book, take a bow because we could not have done this without you. You did this, and we cannot express how much gratitude we all have for being able to be here.
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FDL!!
FITZ!!!
Give truth back!
Jane!
JANE!
FDL!
Jane,
Do you still have the Snoopy dance?
We’re at Plame House doing PoliticsTV. What a long strange trip it’s been…
Maybe those reporters and editors ought to pitch in a little too. After all, via PBS: “Who is going to pay for the news?”
Anyone else not getting a video or is it just me?
Thanks to everyone who made this possible.
The Wilson’s statement on the verdict.
EPU. Your feedback please:
Today the former chief of staff of the Vice President, Mr. I. Scooter Libby was found guilty of two counts of lying to FBI investigators, one count of perjury for testifying falsely under oath, and one count of obstruction of justice in the leak investigation of a CIA agent’s identity.
If Mr. Libby’s motive for lying, perjury and obstruction of justice was to conceal Mr. Cheney’s role in the disclosure of classified information and insulate him from legal jeopardy, then it is the sole responsibility of Congress to investigate; and to initiate impeachment proceedings if there is probable cause and ample justification
While Mr. Libby has been found guilty of perjury and obstruction, there has been no determination regarding who is responsible for disclosing the classified information and blowing the cover of the CIA NOC. Mr. Libby learned of the CIA agent’s identity from Mr. Cheney. There is evidence presented at trial that indicates that Mr. Cheney learned about the CIA agent’s classified identity from his CIA briefer and a classified State Department memo. The prosecutor was clear where the facts lead. He stated in his closing argument, “There is a cloud over the Vice President.”
Congress must investigate in order to meet its responsibilities under the Constitution. As you know, this disclosure of classified information came from senior White House officials and occurred during a time when our President had war authorization for a pre-emptive war in Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein of his nuclear WMDs, which as we all know never materialized. This disclosure of classified information came from senior White House officials in reaction to an op-ed in the New York Times challenging the intelligence used to justify war authorization. We now know that Mr. Cheney’s office was involved in providing “intelligence” for war authorization. This disclosure of classified information came from senior White House officials and revealed a CIA agent’s identity, Valerie Plame, who is also the wife of the man who published the op-ed. On or about the time Valerie Plame’s name was published, the President’s chief policy advisor Karl Rove told Chris Matthews, “Valeria Plame is fair game.” The identity of the CIA agent was classified and her status was covert. She had non-official cover.
I call on you to conduct a thorough investigation into this matter, using subpoena power, as a high priority in Congress. If instead Congress elects to investigate the intelligence used for war authorization, then the interests of the integrity of our Republic will be equally well represented. Thank you.
Nice damn work.
Joe and Valerie Wilson’s statement at CREW:
STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO JURY’S VERDICT IN U.S. V. I. LEWIS “SCOOTER” LIBBY
Washington, DC – First, Valerie and Joseph Wilson would like to express their appreciation to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and the entire team of federal prosecutors for their professionalism and hard work. Their prosecution of a senior White House official illustrates that we are a nation of laws and that no man is above the law. The Wilsons respect the jury’s verdict and thank the jurors for their service. The entire Wilson team is pleased by today’s verdict and believes that justice has been served in this case.
The Wilsons will continue to pursue the civil case against Vice President Cheney, Mr. Libby, Mr. Rove and Mr. Armitage because it hinges on additional and different facts from those underlying the criminal case. The criminal trial was about whether or not Mr. Libby obstructed justice and committed perjury by lying to FBI agents and the grand jury about the fact that he had disclosed to reporters that Valerie Wilson worked for the CIA. The civil suit, on the other hand, hinges on whether or not the defendants violated the constitutional rights of Valerie and Joe Wilson by making those disclosures in a concerted effort to retaliate against Joe Wilson for revealing the falsity of the president’s rationale for the Iraq war.
Disturbing facts emerged from the criminal trial that are highly relevant to the civil case. For example, the American public learned details of how Vice President Cheney orchestrated the concerted White House effort to discredit and retaliate against Joe Wilson. Towards that end, the vice president enlisted the aid of other senior administration officials including former press secretary Ari Fleischer, vice presidential assistant Cathie Martin and presidential advisor Karl Rove. Testimony in the criminal case also confirmed that Mr. Libby spoke to numerous reporters in an effort to persuade at least one of them to publicly reveal Mrs. Wilson’s covert status.
Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director and counsel to the Wilsons, stated, “The civil case may provide the American public with its only opportunity to hear directly from Vice President Cheney, Mr. Libby, Mr. Rove and Mr. Armitage about what really took place behind the scenes after Joe Wilson exposed the truth about the administration’s justification for the Iraq war.”
***
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions.
For more information, please visit http://www.citizensforethics.org or contact Naomi Seligman Steiner at 202.408.5565/press@citizensforethics.org.
What you guys did was so important. Thank you so much. And it’s only right that you get as much credit as you are getting. Congrats!
No video here either. I’m sure they’ll get it fixed.
I’m so glad I made a “founders” donation.
You did us all proud!!!
I’m wondering if fitz reads the lake
I can see the future Ph.D. thesis now: “Disintermediation and traditional news reporting: the case of Firedoglake and the Libby Trial.”
I hope it’s appropriate to EPU the Video of Christy on CSPAN a year ago this month that is referred to in the video above.
ReddHedd on CSPAN – March 2006
Oops… I should have wrote out Christy’s name. Feel free to modify for me mod. I was just lazy and now I can’t edit.
Sending some PayPal Turkee your way, because you provide orders of magnitude more-bang-for-the-buck than “Times Select”.
“Alinsky’s conclusion that the ‘ventilation’ of hostilities is healthy in certain situations is valid, but across-the-board ‘social catharsis’ cannot be prescribed.”
~Hillary Rodham Clinton (1969)
Jane – You are entitled to four counts of ventilation.
Catharsis – Maybe later.
EPU’d Joe Wilson coming up on NPR all things considered soon!!!!
EPU’d:
Media Matters has an excellent list of “Media Myths and Falsehoods” to look out for in the coming days. It’s an excellent review of winger & TradMed talking points, and specific refutations of each one.
{TSF taking wee bow; thanking FDL}
YEAH FDL.
Regarding reporters – on MSNBC kelly O’Donnell was talking about how emotional everyone was, and mentioned Wells emotional tears at the end of his closing. If she had come hear she would have known they were FAKE!
Is rearchitechured a word?
Jeff Jarvis is one tough no-nonsense customer who usually knows what he’s talking about, and doesn’t mince words.
The “remarklably good” spelling error above, aside,
I still think a “My Fair Lady”-esque trill of praise is due to you and the other F-dog folx for all your efforts in keeping people informed: a la
“We know the blame for Plame from Jane and Rayne…”
or such.
Take a bow yourself!
FDL RULED on the Libby coverage. Plain and simple. And the MSM had to know that you had the goods…so they had better act accordingly….at least in most cases.
Thank you – not only for the play by play, but for the analysis that you also provided at the end of each day.
Doubtless this has been linked, but can’t hurt in case people missed it: Glenn Greenwald’s take on the Libby conviction. GG in short: it marks, in a meaningful way, the ending of an era of unaccountability.
My pleasure at the verdict was momentarily disturbed when I ran into one of partners on the way to lunch. Have you heard the news, I asked? He expressed surprise. Really, I said, have you been following the trial?
It doesn’t matter, he said. The DC Court of Appeals, Silberman especially, will figure out a way to reverse.
I’m still not sure why he is surprised at the jury verdict, but he may be right about the DC Circuit, at least if Silberman and Sentelle are on the panel. After all, they’ve been giving the Supreme Court the finger when they don’t think the Supremes have got it right.
Oh well. As Scarlett O’Hara said, I’m going to think about that tomorrow.
Well done.
Thank you thank you thank you. I watched (or at least think I did) the Watergate hearings which opened the world to something not nearly as destructive as we have witnessed recently. Of course I would have loved to watch this live, but because I couldn’t, you were there for me. I came to Firedoglake when the brouhaha began and left until the trial started and find myself back again. This is the coverage you all do best, and although I appreciate the other stories, it’s hard to beat court reporting at its finest. Am looking forward to future installments of The Perry Mason Show on Firedoglake. Thanks again.
I am glad what I could contribute helped in financing your efforts! It woould be interesting to know a ballpark figure what your costs ended up being to better give us all an idea of what future project costs might be.
The impact of FDL was demonstrated every single time the servers crashed! Did anyone count?
There’s no question that at this point FDL has, indeed, (how else to say it?) arrived.
Congratulations to Jane, Christy, emptywheel, Pach, TRex, Swopa, lhp, scarecrow, and many others whom I do not have the space to name here.
Biodun @ 26:
Must be a different Jarvis than the one I used to read occasionally.
IMO, he’s a glib, narcissistic twit, but if he saw the light briefly enough to praise FDL, it goes to show how clearly Ms. Hamsher’s vision lapped the field.
I sure would like to know if Cheney is responsible for the leak and culpable under the law. If Fitz believes it is Chaney, then Fitz can’t pursue it, right? Congress must.
I am listening to Collins–and liking this guy more and more!
Not wanting to endanger future court live-blogging with this comment, but I have a question. Tape recorders are not allowed in the pressroom, but laptops are. If you were blogging from laptop with a built-in microphone, it would be pretty easy to record the sound of the events. (Naturally if you were typing on it, it would also be picking up keyboard clicks, ect.) I guess my point is, how do they check that people are not indeed RECORDING AUDIO via their laptops? And what would the penalties be, if caught?
I’m still waiting for someone to publically notice that HR Haldeman, Richard Nixon’s Chief of Staff was coincidentally convicted of Obstruction of Justice….
kimalanus
jane, before we get to next battle, were we able to cover costs for this one? Want to make sure FDL is in the black.
Should we contact the Libby Defense Fund and offer a free box set of the Oz series for Scooter so he can get primed on life in the can?
-GSD
I just watched Tweety on Tucker. He’s foaming !
I think he read Marcy’s book too. Seems to have a new “command” of the total picture.
baked potato @ 18:
A fine book should come out of all this: using the occasion of the Libby case and trial to analyze the collusion between MSM and BushCo in contemporary American landscape. And Christy should write it. She already has all the material.
As I think about Fitz’s post-trial press conference, I am amused at two things he said. 1 – this investigation is inactive, and 2 – unless new information comes to light.
This amuses me because I can see Fitz is already working to flip Libbey. Fitz is saying to Libby ‘get ready for your 25 years in prison’. And then Fitz says ‘of course, if new information comes to light…such as Libby squeeling like a pig to avoid prison time’.
BIG game of chicken being played right now. Libbey better firm up that pardon promise from W. Judge Walton ran a pretty tight ship for all these proceedings, so an appeal is not automatic.
Jane,
Our victory lap is only possible because of Fitz and his team and because of FDL and your team.
The victory lap(s) and congratulations are for you all!!
Thanks again for this great service to our Country!!
was EPU’d (again) and again and again, threads moving fast!!!!!!
March 6th, 2007 at 11:21 am
thanks for the post (about the juror) jane, (and now marcy)
i was hoping the jury was approaching it and digging through it in a manner that is above reproach…….
hoping the republicans and the democrats everywhere will remember, truth is not partisan, we need more of it expressed and displayed every day…(c’mon out all you closet truth-loving reps and senators)
and to say again, my bumper sticker which i found in wva says:
when you tell the truth you don’t have to remember what you said
and thanks to all who relay the tv stuff, i only get pbs here and am on dial-up so can’t stream anything…….when i had cable, i was a political news junkie…….so thanks for your daily reports……..
and to add on–marcy, i can’t imagine what you and your gang are feeling right now, so won’t try to insert a word that may not describe it, just hope that it is all good, and that what you are feeling right now gets you through a rough day in the future. i wish i had more money to send toward your efforts, and will be sending some when i get a reimbursement soon……..it’s all yours!!!!!!! i know you all will spend it wisely, feels good to be able to say that to someone i don’t even know…….thank you.
and to add on more-
i cannot thank you all enough for how much i have learned in this past month, i read all of the posts and all of the comments….it’s been hard to keep up but i have….i also follow the links…..has pushed my own reading onto the back burner, but been well worth it….i hope you all are feeling the steel-founded strength that you have given all of us out in the netherlands…..and can use it to your own volition…
oh my god joe wilson on npr right now…..all things considered….i love it……just love it….thanks for what i am feeling right now.
Indeed, what a long strange trip it’s been.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vPNgjA4i6gM
Keep on truckin’ FDL, you do indeed rock.
A victory lap and a bow. Curtain calls, especially for FDL’s leading actors. Bravo! Flowers, standing ovations that will not die down.
Calls for encores! because the audience is never satisfied …
That’s my pessimistic opinion, too.
But you know what? No one said we had to make it easy for him.
Oh…and by the way…..don’t we still have another sealed indictment sitting in a drawer somewhere?????
many of us cannot afford to donate much, i was able to buy Marcy’s book. A pittance given for what we have received here. Thank you Mustang, Thank Steelthing. Thank anonymous donors who keep this enterprise afloat. Your gifts are so great. Those of us who cannot afford much are deeply indebted to you.
watching the TV news today mostly on msnbc (on dial up here), listening to the repug pundits..That kool aide is really really strong. They cannot handle the truth ! Here is to watching the wheels fall off this criminal cabal.
Here is to Congress, may they do the right thing, “catch the ball” and seek to IMPEACH.
Thank you FDL !
ding!
This asshole Tucker Carlson is just taking clips out of context and hammering that there was “no underlying crime”> Why, you may ask, am I watching?
Matt Cooper on NPR.
Neil – your #12 emailed to all three of my congresspeople. Thanks.
Cranky
Marcy, Jeralyn, Jane, Christie and all the crew at FDL, you are to be commended for, first, not allowing this case to be relegated to the shadows and more importantly, for establishing the facts of the case clearly as the investigation proceeded and as the case against Libby was made. Sadly, the real crime goes unpunished but the revelations that have emerged and the fact that establishment types like Matthews and Imus became so interested in the trial gave it a lot more juice.
I’d still like to see the minutes from those ultra hush-hush Cheyney energy task force meetings.
LOL! Mathew Cooper using Joe Wilson’s Al Capone getting caught on taxes analogy!
Interested Observer @ 40
Court hearings are not an opportunity to play games. It’s not a question of getting caught, it would never occur to anybody to deviate from the court’s will on an issue like that.
raven:
Tucker is an annoying twit. His voice alone drives me nuts. But sadly, I have to watch him and others for billables, as they say.
Victoria Toensing saying “aba aba aba” on CNN.
i gave to the marcy book fund because i thought it was important and it was the right thing to do. i give to firedoglake becasue they have become like my family and i am just helping out. i lurk, but i lurk many times a day. well done my friends.
…don’t look at on CNN…
It is now clear that the Bush Admin committed treason with Scooters conviction. In RICO the man at the top is responsible.
It is also coming out that plans to destroy Plame’s covert CIA operation Brewster -Jennings was the real target and decided upon before Joe Wilson even wrote his article.
The Joe Wilson smear spin is just that, spin that the MSM has swallowed hook line a sinker. Brewster-Jennings was our Nations most important intelligence operation tracking Nuclear and WMD acquisition and development in the Middle East. Cheney and Bush wanted tnis destroyed so there would be no ‘pissant’ cia trying to meddle in their Iran and Iraq war plans.
It is also rumored that Plame’s Brewster-Jennings just prior to Plames exposure had been instrumental in stopping a load of WMD headed for Iraq through Turkey, and it has been conjectured that this was the shipment and Bush operation to plant the WMD’s in Iraq.
When Brewster-Jennings was destroyed, people were killed as a result and a multi-year and multi-million dollar covert front company was destroyed. Covert front companies are the most complicated covert operations to create, and maintain, and they historically provide the best intelligence.
Bush and Cheney destroyed our nation’s most important and primary WMD/Nuclear proliferation intelligence efforts in the Middle East. And for this they should be tried, impeached and hung for treason.
THIS MUST GET OUT!!!! Write letters to the editors, blogs, websites. Make a stink!!!
Do the research yourself for what I say is true and it is the most disgusting and reprehensible thing that has ever been done to our country.
It is a heinous and treasoness conspiracy with no equal. The Joe Wilson smear angle was BS from the start and is pure Rovian mis-direction. It may even be the case that Cheney’s office sent Wilson to Niger to get the conspiracy and mis-direction rolling.
Think about it, but try to stop from puking or running ro the pitchfork.
My thanks and admiration to all involved in this quest for truth and justice from the first hint of the outing to the guilty verdict today. Occupying a HUGE space in this is the community of Firedoglake and Marcie Wheeler. They may have started out as pound puppies but are now sitting on the podium at Westminister.
For the many who have come to know this place as THE place to get the truth, there were long dry spells but also wicked hope and a growing faith and trust. Everyone from the tiniest cog, to the biggest (empty)wheel can say they had a part in bringing justice to Valerie Plame and the American public when so many administration criminals and press lackeys would have rather seen it buried.
((Hugs)) to you all. *ouch* (I just pulled a muscle trying to get my arms around TRex)
Okay… who is next. My preference, Cheney.
Indeed, while some of us are disappointed at Fitz’s having said that the investigation is now “inactive” (my own reaction, like others here, was, “No!”), Fitz is, of course, not really talking to us, he’s talking to Scooter: You think you’re being left hanging? You really think that you’re the scapegoat, the fall guy? Well, unless you talk, you’re right, I’m done, you’re the only one going to jail, and all your buddies are getting off scot free.
Might not work, but if Scooter (or his family) feel that it ain’t fair, and with jail that much more concrete a vision after today, it just might.
too late on CNN — is it just me, or does Victoria Toensing look like Novak in drag?
“…don’t look at on CNN…”
Coultergist must not be available
Blitzer with Balls? When did this happen?
March 6,2007 “a Day That Will Live in Infamy”
Thanks,firedogs, now let’s get back to work!
have you guys seen the screencap of the Wikipedia page for Libby?
As they say, it is to laugh…
http://www.boingboing.net/2007…..s_all.html
People can email questions (as well as call)
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/
CNN notwithstanding, I am loving watching Victoria Toensing look like a blooming idjit.
Thanks for this victory lap, FDL. That cool wind in my face feels great!
Poor Vicky T. Her lame attempt at jury tampering fell flat.
Maybe she can hop on to the case in Michigan and help the husband accused of dismembering his wife.
She can argue there was no underlying crime.
-GSD
Twolf…. too late!
Still whistling past the graveyard… and it REALLY pisses me off that they never mention her glaring conflict of interest…
Amen.
You have an eternally loyal soldier here, Jane.
Any FDL’ers in Manhattan interested in getting together tonight at a bar to watch the Joe Wilson interview and have a celebratory drink?
Does Libby sit in jail tonight?
*xyz — where in manhattan?
This much shit coming down and we’re not even in the Ides of March.
Hold on to your seats.
OT.
Two US troops dead in Ethiopia. Bush and Cheney are overstretching the military all over the planet. We are like Savoir Faire, we’re everywhere.
Plus the mystery of the dissappearing Iraqi general looks like it may heat up. Israel is on high alert.
Does this mean Collins? If it does, I don’t think Larry – or the CNN promo folks – know what “exclusively” means.
blitzer says: soon – “we’re getting reaction from Dick Cheney”
Jay at 78 — He’s out on bond until sentencing.
Woodhall Hollow – I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I can go just about anywhere that’s convenient for other folks. But I won’t be able to get out of work until around 8pm.
I went over to http://justoneminute.typepad.com/
and tried to explain the whole Fifth Amendment issue with a pardon and they all acted like I was a complete moron and there was absolutely no problem with Libby being pardoned. Oh well. Hopefully they will soon see the light. A toast to FDL!:)
john kerry goes strate to the heart of cheney with this statement
Well done FDL!
Fitz!
Neil @ 38:
I think Fitz COULD constitutionally go after Cheney — in other words, I don’t think the Veep is immune from prosecution until removed from office — but I don’t think he has the goods on Cheney. And the reason he doesn’t have the goods is that Libby lied (not to mention the mysteriously unprosecuted Rove).
Despite Shooter’s high regard for Scooter, he still can deny that he instructed Libby to leak Plame’s status. He can still say, without contradiction, that if Libby leaked, and if Libby lied to the GJ, he was doing so on his own initiative. There is no testimony to contradict that story, and as far as we know, no documents that contradict that story either.
Sure there are documents that strongly suggest Shooter’s role as leak and obstruction mastermind, but “strongly suggest” is not the same as proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Someone has to turn. Someone has to flip. And I don’t think Libby is going to do it. He’s counting on his pardon, and perhaps Judge Silberman too.
That’s why we need a Congressional investigation.
*xyz — I am 2 subway stops into Brooklyn, so as long as it is not too far uptown I would love to celebrate with nyc firepups.
I’m not sure what apoplexy is, but I hope that’s the reaction we’re getting from Darth Cheney.
I’m off to take a nap – what with a victory lap and doing the Snoopy dance all afternoon, I’m plumb tuckered…
litigatormom @ 89
Very well put, on all counts.
I think he wants to be re authorized…can congress do this?
Oh oh, der Murray Waas”up” is coming out with an
“INSTANT BOOK” on the trial,
lucky us, see Breitbart at http://www.breitbart.com/news/…..T2KO2.html .
Maybe others are more deserving of writing such tome.
Thank you Christy, Jane, and Marcy for keeping this story alive, making it understandable, and making it clear how important it was. You’ll be getting from me asap. A luta continua!
Thank you Fitz, Judge Walton, and jury for your devotion to law (and the Constitution).
And thank you Amb. and Mrs. Wilson for your past service, and your dignity through all this.
Now to resume my dopey grinning that suddenly I can’t seem to stop.
FDL Indeed!!!
I am so proud and appreciative of Jane/ReddHedd and the entire crew they have led and assembled along with the format, tone, approach, the depth of understanding and quality of writing they have applied to this unprecedented crisis of criminality in our government.
This place set the standard and, well, Marcy “wrote the book.”
You folks roped me in almost two years ago when I started coming her almost daily – originally because of the espionage/treason coverage and then for everything great that followed – and today it’s a privilege to be reading this news on the most appropriate forum anywhere.
slainte,
cl
Woodland Hollow – That’s funny – I always thought you lived out in the country somewhere like Vermont, based on your screen name. I will be happy to head somewhere downtown to meet up with folks. Do you have a place in mind?
Has anyone else mentioned Wilson being interviewed by Olbermann tonight?
vicky t. still claiming to have written the IIPA law, and that Valerie wasn’t covert.
on msnbc, buchanan speaks of a call he got from Joe Wilson within the last hour, yelling about something!
Hey, girl power, girl power, Jane and the girls absolutely kicked ass. I’m telling the world if they don’t know already.
I’m sending in some scratch for the future matches! Keep up the AWESOME work Pach, Jane, Christy, Jeralyn, Marci emptywheel, AZ woman, and the others…….a great day for democracy indeed.
and this verdict sure must have made Ted WELL(S) up with tears! sorry couldn’t help the snark! I learned it here :D
Wow – they were sure quick to update this:
http://scooterlibby.com/news/
You guyz rock.
you know what would seal this administrations fate?
libby jumps bail
Great coverage! Thanks for the insight. I still have a question:
If Libby is pardoned, couldn’t he be forced to testify again, maybe by Congress? If he lies again, couldn’t the whole thing start all over again? Does a pardon somehow protect you from future acts?
*xyz — that’s funny since I am from Vermont! No I don’t have anywhere in mind, since I don’t usually go to bars with TVs! But I am flexible below Columbus Circle on the west side or Grand Central on the East.
How else would he know to say hi to Marcy? He must read the Lake.
heh
And Truth takes an Obvious Hill in the battle against Infotainment!
Christy @ 84
How I savour those words: “He’s out on bond until sentencing. ” *slap happy*
sent another contribution today – third during the trial. I hope it helps buy a few new gerbils for the electronic wheel next time there’s a conviction!
perris @104:
I think this administration’s fate is already sealed…it is the rest of us I’m worried about.
Trying to get the lame explanations I’ve been surfing between CNN and MSNBC. Buchannon on Tucker said all he had(paraphrasing) was an obstruction cahrge, not outing a NOC. Why can’t these robots see that the reason Fitzgerald could not go beyond perjury and OBSTRUCTION was because Libby’s lying put up a road block. One thing he did was keep the VP out of the dock and will probably get a pardon. I just bought a 42″ LCD TV and I almost destroyed it when I got to CNN and Blitzer. Morticia Toensing did everything but call Fitz stupid for bringing an indictment against Libby. She can gag a maggot. She and her sleazy husband deserve each other. If I woke up in the morning and found her head on my arm I would chew my arm off at the shoulder just so I wouldn’t have to wake her up.
Why can’t someone on the air simply ask Vicky T…..
“If Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity was NOT classified, why does the indictment and trial documents show that she WAS classified?”
Will nothing shut this [expletive deleted] woman up?!??!????!!!
perris – you know what would seal this administrations fate? libby jumps bail
he’s got a future as a ranch hand in Paraguay
“If I woke up in the morning and found her head on my arm I would chew my arm off at the shoulder just so I wouldn’t have to wake her up.”
LOL
EW, you got company coming from Murray Waas:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..-Leak.html
I liked his reporting on the case, so I view it as a welcome complement to EW’s tour de force.
And when does the second edition, “soon to be a major motion picture” glossy of Anatomy of Deceit come out with trial updates?
Thanks again all!
litigatormom at 31
Mygawd. You didn’t deck your “colleague”?
You have buckets more self control than I.
He essentially said, “Don’t you know we have people who take care of that sort of thing?”
as in, heaven forbid he should risk chipping his own perfect manicure, but he assumes justice will be overturned since, of course, that’s the natural order of things in the “real world”.
You keep yer head up, Scarlett, and don’t back up an inch. Tell him you have friends who have friends, and they’ll take care of it. Then flounce off & leave him to ignore the oncoming freight train of justice all by hissownself.
To the lawyers at the Lake….
Fitz’s charge was to determine whether a crime was committed in the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity.
Why would Fitz stop now? Won’t Fitz be talking to Wells soon about a “bargain sentence” in exchange for ratting out the Shooter?
a juror and joe wilson will be on larry king and cnn tonight
Wow. Thank you all so much. I believe my donation to help get fdl to dc may be the best fifty bucks I`ve ever spent. Righteous justice and snarky entertainment is one delicious combination!
Thank you for all you and your colleagues have done, Jane.
$ 100.00 on its way to FDL.
Posted this at DU as an additonal thank you to FDL:
http://www.democraticundergrou….._id=354012
Peace,
Bob
Looks like Coltergiest has been bleeding advertisers since her latest shennanigans.
Also reading about the AG serial massacre that Abu Gonzales perpetrated there appears to be a whole new slate of Republicans and moderates and Independants who were thrown to the wolves so that the all politics all the time Bush administration could wedge just a few more lackeys and sycophants into high places.
The whole scam is coming unwrapped.
-GSD
Why can’t someone on the air simply ask Vicky T…..
Or just quote Fitz from today when he said that there is not a shadow of a doubt that Valerie Plame Wilson was classified. None.
Here is screen grab from a commentary over DKos from Faux News saying that Libby was found not guilty! I kid you not! And it has Brit Hume in the grab.
Fox News Alert: Libby NOT Guilty (Screen Grab Enclosed)
by KingOneEye
Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 11:24:03 AM PST
by KingOneEye
Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 11:24:03 AM PST
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..3482/03023
I feel like quoting the last line from The Candidate:
What do we do now?
okay, it’s confirmed. Wolf is a f**king idiot.
Following up on Biodun @ 27, it’s nice to see kudos for Jeff Jarvis. I found FDL from a Buzzmachine link in 2005.
If anyone had written a novel (or a movie) about a CIA agent outed by an American VP and his minions, I would have dismissed it as implausible. But that was before Plame.
Truth has turned out to be vastly stranger than fiction. And I have a slightly nauseous feeling that there is still more to come — the implications of this trial are so huge that it’s simply not credible that this is the end of it. You can’t learn that a VP and his minions were behind ‘outing’ an NOC without a creepy shudder down your spine. Then, when you layer on Iraq, Halliburton, tax cuts for the wealthiest, no-bid contracts, PNAC, K Street, and Enron…
It’s mind-boggling.
I want to remind EVERYONE, the president has made a pledge, given his work, that “anyone involved in exposing this agent would no longer be in this administration”
we know as a fact the vice president is involved in this breach of our security…at a time of war
the president as a pledge to fulfill
this is the way he has to be approached, his quote has to be repeated to him verbatum, national security must be at stake when he is challenged as to why he has not fullfilled his pledge
HAHHHAHAHAHAHA!
Thanks AZ Matt, I needed a good belly laugh.
Woodland – I’m trying to think of a place with TV’s to watch Olbermann – drawing a blank right now. I’ll keep thinking about it.
For all that you have reported, thank you.
There is hope. Let’s hope congressional hearing now take the lead in exposing more of the deception that led to war.
Pervasive and systematic human rights violations are the norm in US prisons (at the local, state, and Federal levels).
When US prison guards in National Guard units staffed Abu Gharaib (sp?), the whole planet could see how Americans shred their Constitution every day in US prisons and jails.
This sordid national crime is grotesque – any jurist who knowingly sentences the convicted to conditions ensuring sexual assault violates Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
Libby and all inmates deserve safe prisons and jails.
Our Constitution demands it.
so can congress re authorize the fitz?
Late to the party–I’ve been locked up in the office, with no internet connection at all.
Yee-ha! So many thanks to all the movers and shakers at FDL. Jane, Christy, Marcy, Pach, Swopa, Marcy, Pach, TRex, Scarecrow, LHP–this has been amazing!
xyz and Woodland Hollow.
Is Walkers stillthere on Franklin Street (Off w. Broadway in Tribeca) used to be where all the courthouse reporters hung out.
Or FOrlinni’s in Little Italy (behind the Tombs) where all the crim defense lawyers hang out.
Or Anticca Roma behind the playgrond in back of the DA’s Office (hogan STreet)on th eedge of China Town, where all the ADA’s drink.
ANyone of those bars should be chock full of people obsessed with this trial tonight.
Now, as for how I know where all these bars are…. Hides eyes and blushes
the president as a pledge to fulfill
The original “Plame Affair Clock,” which I put up almost 3 1/2 years ago, is still ticking at my scarcely used, rarely updated ole blog …
*xyz – my email is geshtinnanna at hotmail dot com.
“Why can’t someone on the air simply ask Vicky T…..
“If Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity was NOT classified, why does the indictment and trial documents show that she WAS classified?”
And you can go back even farther. The CIA is required BY LAW to request an investigation of an outed NOC, which they did. And the DOJ accepted the request
Woodhollow at 80
Lordy be! Haven’t even begun to partay yet, & I thot you asked, “Where is manhattan?”
[tee hee. there is one in KS, y’know]
Don’t want you kids gettin’ lost in a rough neighbourhood now… be careful out there.
i heerd there’re angry lil’ green foosbawls bouncin’ all over da place ta-day! & the playin’ field ain’t level nohow.
pity.
Banner on CNN.com:
Vice President Cheney “disappointed” and “saddened” by guilty verdict in perjury trial of his former chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
And their current poll is showing 3-to-1 support for the verdict:
Do you agree with the verdict in the “Scooter” Libby trial?
Yes 76% 40200 votes
No 24% 12660 votes
Total: 52860 votes
LHP — lawyer places, what a good idea! I have no idea since IANAL, but I bet old watering holes don’t dissapear easily in this town.
Thank goodness!That is meant quite literally.On the other side of the world the words of W Churchill come to mind.Something about the Americans will do the right thing but only after they’ve tried everything else.Also I read somewhere that in its own language the word satan means prince of liars.Something the rabid religious definitely need to get a grip on.
If this keeps up youse mob are going to be well on your way to regaining your mana.
WELL DONE!!YOU LITTLE BEAUTY!!CHOICE!!CHOICE!!
looseheadprop – thanks, those sound like ideal bars! Are you in NYC as well?
Adie–not to worry. No little greens in 80% blue NYC!
D’oh . . . just read #95.
Ot a little bit:
In all of those clips of Scoots getting out of the SUV w/Wells et all, is the dark-haired woman in sunglasses (who looks like Michael Jackson, imo) Scoots’ wife?
Sanctuary ! Sanctuary !
Hey Firedogs,
had to leave the house just as verdict was read, no really, I had to leave the house – so very happy for Jane, Christy, Marcy, Pach, LHP and all those of you contributing to the coverage.
Made my contribution earlier today, hope everyone else that can, does :)
oh and, flew the flag off the porch today – a great day to be American indeed (((Ms. Hamsher)))
a shout out also to the gabblers for keeping the chat going during the crunch!
jayt@145 – yep, Scooter’s wife
Dick Armey living up to his name on CNN – says the trial was silly and now officeholders can get back to their real work.
In the event the current slow motion collapse of the current adminsitration has consumed a lot of your time and energy it should be noted that at the same time the British and the Israeli governments are both involved in massive criminal scandals that threaten their continued existence.
All while reports indicate Sunnis are “rampaging” in Iraq and that Al Qaeda and the Taliban have merged and metasticized and are preparing a large scale offensive in Afghanistan and have taken over large swathes of Pakistan.
-GSD
Woodhall Hollow 144
heh – i grew up ’bout 20mi. from where yer headin’
have a grand time!
You folks truly rocked this entire trial. I only sprang for $50 when you solicited donations prior to your trip east, but I’m proud that I gave. I think you have done much to give truth back to the people in one simple step, and I believe this will become more clear to people in the near future. The people still have power. We just need to keep making this clear.
omg SWOPA !! forgot to include you w/ all those who so deeply enriched our experience – thank ya thank ya thank ya
XYZ and Woodland Hollow
Out on Lawn Guyland today. No trips into city for me tonight have very ealry doctor’s appointment tomorrow.
However, there is a bottle of Tattinger’s that will get cracked open tonight at home.
I am pretty sure Walkers is stillthere.
Also, ther is a place called theh Metropolitain Improvemant Company right behind One Police Plaze (Police HQ. Years ago it was where the AUSA’s hung out.Then it sorta got taken over by the FI guys and , stangely, the Dept of Sanitation Police (yes, they have their own police force–don’t ask).
But tonight, you may find some feds there.
Thank you. Excellent work all of you. You make democracy work.
Yes 76% 40200 votes
No 24% 12660 votes
Total: 52860 votes
Can someone methaphorically staple these numbers to the heads of the weak-kneed Blue Dogs and Liebercrats and let them know that the nation is sick of Bush and Cheney and is looking and pleading for someone to stop them before they ruin everything.
-GSD
kirk murphy @131
Well if the prison system doesn’t seem right let’s not discount the house arrest/bracelet form of punishment. It ruined the marriage of someone I was acquainted with. Imagine Mr. & Ms. Scooter with *all* that time to spend together.
He might ask: Why did you hug Wells and not me after the verdict?
Marcy and egregious are drinking wine. Marcy’s interviews are getting better and better…
Jane 159,
Is Marcy grinning!?
A Heartfelt Thank you to EVERYONE at FDL!
You guys are better than ALL the news agencies out there. Why, because you believe in the truth and relay ALL the facts for us, normal Americans, so we can judge for ourselves.
You guys deserve a Pulitzer! First ones to ever live-blog a trial! Jane, I hope you are feeling very well, and I hope you are fully recovered. God Bless You!
Congrats Jane, I love you! What a fun day…I’m totally exhausted already and I have to watch Victoria T on CNN to get sicker by the minute…
It would serve these goombahs right if (instead of waiting around to be fired) Fitzgerald quit — and was immediately hired as counsel for a Congressional Plamegate committee!
Great coverage, guys. Great cheerleading.
John @ 162
Thanks for all your great work at Crooks & Liars!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, FDL
for the most excellent adventure and
for your hard and compelling work throughout
the trial.
and i want to give credit to a commenter at
achenblog at washington post for leading me here…………..thank you thank you thank you.
I heart FDL
I’ve just started Marcy’s book and it is so easy to read. Wonderul writing, Marcy. Thanks for all your work. I’ve watched you, and look forward to much more. HOORAY!
((((((((FDL above and below the fold)))))))
144 Gary Reilly says:
March 6th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
D’oh . . . just read #95.
- – -
No prob chief… :D
SLJ says:
March 6th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I’m so glad I made a “founders” donation.
You did us all proud!!!
I’m glad too
thank you
David Boyle (28) — I claim no credit save that anybody else has earned for supporting Marcy’s book and cheering on as FireDogLake doggedly slogged through the deepest weeds along with Marcy at The Next Hurrah to see this through.
Bravo to Jane, Christy, Pachacutec, TRex for building this edifice, their co-contributors looseheadprop, Scarecrow, Peterr, Jeralyn Merritt and the rest of the cast for their efforts.
An enormous debt of gratitude to Marcy, for application of the most incredible holographic memory and fastest, most accurate of typing.
Yet another enormous debt of gratitude to the “ghosts-in-the-machine” like RBG and the mods who’ve kept this place running as smoothly as possible, in spite of enormous loads and smart*ssed commenters and a barrage of trolls.
History, in the making, right here, up close and personal; many of us do not have the chance in our lifetimes to be part of making history let alone share the road with it.
And many of us in our lifetimes don’t get a chance to observe this lesson: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead was right when she said that — and FireDogLake is proof.
FDL Team,
t h a n k – y o u ~ for your stellar work & vigilance from this Toronto gal ~ $100 PayPal’d your way~
hi mui -
just to clarify: I’m all for scooter doing time for his actions – just want him (and all inmates) to do their time in safe conditions.
Toasts to Marcy and egregious, and roses and truffles for Jane!
Dear Jane, Marcy, Christy, Pach, loosehead and all,
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I know I am repeating others comments but you all did a wonderful job of reporting and giving those of us without a legal background information that was thorough, informative and easily digestable. You deserve a prize. I hope this is a first of many such endeavors. I wish you all a little R&R and a lot of praise for your work.
thanks for your work. will you be liveblogging the invasion of iran?
hi marcy, i finished your book last nite, great timing, eh?
thanks so much to fdl for this front row seat.
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who’s next?
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Two questions:
I finally read the IIPA- can it possibly be prosecuted ? Specifically, the requirement that your friend, the government, must be taking affirmative steps to conceal the noc’s identity is problematic- is the CIA going to let that type of operational information come out into the public domain? Toensing (sp?) should not be proud of writing that law.
Two: What is the constitutionality of indicting a sitting vice president for acts committed in the execution of his duties? My limited understanding is that that question hasn’t been answered.
Look forward to hearing from some of the fed’l criminal attorneys.
Oh, and good gravy, Swopa and eRiposte, too — what would we have done without them??
The blogosphere is a weird meritocracy. Whatever one’s standards of merit, the blogs that live most faithfully up (or down) to those standards become the hubs of choice.
For those admiring the standards of logic, rectitude, eloquence, the rule of law, and geeky weediness, FDL has naturally evolved as the hub of choice. And today is FDL’s day! Megacongrats to the creators, the maintainers, and sustainers.
i watched the watergate hearings on tv when i was a teenager … and i have despaired of the media … but fdl has made me proud that justice really can flow down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream …
fitz for president
cozumel @ 138
As Tweety once said to Coultergeist:
“The facts mean nothing to you.”
Applies to all the wingnuts who freely lie to the American public… like Toenails et al. And you know, once a lie is repeated often enough… that’s why Faux exists.
OT – Marcy, there’s an article in today’s WaPo on insomniacs and their increased level of creativity.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01541.html
hey, I am just savoring those moments when we had the trolls that had the nerve to say during live blogging;
how does it feel to see fitz’s case slowly unravel”
Hey, before Marchy gets blotto (jk)… could you pls share with us your meeting with Fitz??
Can someone explain what the motions are that Well’s is going to try to get Libby of the hook? He’s going to argue for a new trial (which, I don’t even get how they can do that) and then appeal if that fails; what do they do to argue for new trial and barring that, on what basis would they appeal?
Iwouldn’t waste one minute on that law.
CitizenSpook is right, and Pat said so in his indictment press conference:
It’s the Espionage Act you want to focus on.
Yes John Conyers, the ESPIONAGE ACT. Much easier case to make. MUCH
Congratulations to you all at FDL.
It is great to see you receiving the recognition that is so well deserved.
Ah I feel I should compose a sonnet in honor of that cloud that hangs over the office of the vp.
Cheney is feeling the rain.
Fineman has an excellent article up at msnbc.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17484687/
Subtitle is: What – or whom- was Libby hiding?
Jane H. @ 159
Is “getting into the weeds” taking on a whole new meaning?
Vp official statement feel saddened for libby and family and he’s a great man who worked tirelessly for him, the administration, and the country…blah blah.
Okay, now that Libby has been shot by Cheney in the back as opposed to in the face like Withington…I’m just waiting for the apology from Libby essentially saying,(paraphrasing) Pardon me, but I am sorry to sadden Vice President Cheney and upsetting this administration.
Plus, let’s not forget Libby was assistant to the President in National security aka Dick Cheney’s Cheney.
Jane, were you asking questions at Fitz’s courthouse steps presser? There was a questioner who called him “Pat” that sounded like it might be you….
PS — Pach has Joe Wilson’s tele-press-conference upstairs.
What arguments will he likely make or what legitiamte argument will he make?
As it has so reliably done throughout this trial, the defense will pull out the old chestnuts: Jury instructions were bad, jurors were prejudiced about the VP, evidence was admitted that should not have been, evidence was excluded that should not have been, Pat scared the jury when he went flying across the room yelling “madness!” (ok that last one is not an old chestnut–actually, it’s probabaly a first)
But do I think any of these arguments have merit? No
For that, you gotta call up Jeralyn. Maybe she will see a chink in the trial that I do not.
The FDL team has done something really important here — reporting and the relationship between the blogosphere and MSM is never going to be the same.
When I was a young 1L, I spent the summer of ‘73 watching the Watergate hearings live on network TV (!!) Never will forget the moment when Alexander Butterfield testified that The Trickster had a taping system; you could feel the ground shift under the Nixon Presidency.
Today has a similar feel — not so much a ground shift per se, but a convergence that is going to lead to somewhere unexpected and interesting.
Libby verdict, testimony of the fired AUSAs, testimony about Walter Reed — it’s all coming together and with any luck it means that for Dear Leader A Hard Rain Is Going To Fall.
Raw Story has Jane up
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0306.html
Here is screen grab from a commentary over DKos from Faux News saying that Libby was found not guilty!
That might have been part of a rotating chyron, although CNN had a ‘Libby Not Guilty On One Charge’ chyron up straight after the verdict, and it took a while for them to replace it with ‘Oh, BTW, He’s Guilty On The Other Four’.
The weirdness of the cablenews response was that the anchors seemed to think that the one not-guilty verdict meant more than the four guilties. And of course, that played into Vickie T’s ‘Inconsistent! Inconsistent!’ bullshit.
Glenn Greenwald is right and thank God for that!
One more contribution to the Victory Lap thread, which I hope underscores the scope of this miracle….
From my trove of hysterically assinine tidbits:
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Pres G W Bush, Sept 30, 2003, in response to a question about leaking:
THE PRESIDENT: …There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington… There’s just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of...I’m absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job. …I want to know the truth … I don’t know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I’d like to know it, and we’ll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing… … people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information — outside the administration…. I want to know who the leakers are.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news…..930-9.html
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Expecting a frothing tumult of “there was no underlying crime whine-whine-whine” for the next several newz cycles at Faux and other morally astigmatic outlets.
said it before will say it again:
Thanks to all of you at Firedoglake organizing this coverage.
And to the knowledgeable posters.
Amazing what comes through the tubes ain’t it?
Marcy and Jane’s posts just hat tipped at CNN’s blog report.
I just arrived home from the school where I worked tday in total isolation from any news reports except for the instant my cell phone message light began blinking at the time the verdict was announced. What an amazing moment in history!!! And now I have rushed home to read the blog! *not finished yet* Thank you so much to Jane Marcy, Swopa, Christy, TRex, LHP and anyone else at FDL I may be forgetting in my delirium at the moment. I had never been to a blog before this trial but pressing the pay button last week was the best most gratifying thing I have done for the First Ammendment in a very long time. It has been an education that I credit also to the brilliant people who comment (and I can assure you I am not one of them) especially Rayne, Mason, EvilDrPurma, Teddysanfran, AZMatt, Helen, Ed*ardTellar, Suzanne and not but last but never least the amazing Litigatormom! Thank you and my cat thanks you!!!!!! GO TEAM FDL AND GO TEAM FITZ!! *opens champagne*
I thought Meeks’ comments were grudging, as if he didn’t really want to admit fully what you did. He didn’t mention Jane or Marcie! Just kept saying “bloggers” as if he was being forced to by circumstances. In my book, that’s damning with faint praise. You must take a victory lap out there all by yourselves, without wide-shouldered suits to endorse you. You don’t need anybody’s praise from that field. You have praise and thanks enough from your readers – and donations, too, I hope! I have Marcy’s first book. What’s the second one on the trial going to be called?
Power to FDL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am today reminded of the words of the old Civil War song, “Rally ‘Round the Flag”. I find them appropriate to today’s victory by the honorable Patrick Fitzgerald:
“….Down with the traitor, up with the star
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
….We will welcome to our numbers
The loyal, true and brave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
….And we’ll prove a loyal crew
To the land we love the best
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom..”
Let’s get the FDL’ers on the Diane Rehms show. Call and e-mail. We want the “Anatomy of Deceit” discussed on Diane’s show
Here in the UK the BBC News at Ten report on the verdict is that although the case involved a lot of evidence at its heart it was about Iraq, the Niger allegation in the State of the Union address and an attempt by a member of the Bush inner circle to cover for his boss, the Vice President following a dishonest attempt to exact revenge on Mr and Mrs Wilson; Mr Wilson was interviewed during the report which also included an old video of Bush looking very fed up as he gets on board his plane after refusing to answer a reporter’s legtimate question on the case.
Thank you to all at FDL for the part you played in making sure that the bad guys did not get away with it – at least so far as this case goes.
Congrats and thank you to all of you. It can’t be repeated often enough.
Valerie & Joe – never have so many been so happy for a couple!
Two questions for the firepup legal eagles:
Will the court let Libby dress in a suit when he is called to testify at the Plame/Wilson civil trial?
Is their trial coming up this summer?
To xyz & Woodland Hollow:
Walker’s is on Varick St. at Franklin St.
Take the #1 Train to Varick. It’s right there!
Have fun.
They also have great burgers.
I hate to be nasty, but that vid made me want to say only one thing: eat shit, buddy
Bravo! Brava! FDL, you have done a wonderful job and won many new fans (or addicts) like me!
I am sooooooooooooooo happy today. My best to all of you at FDL – I am glad I contributed to your fund so you could bring us this. ITS A VICTORY FOR EVERYONE TODAY – OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM, THE WILSON’S, ALL OF US. FDL has set a precendent and its on to bigger and better things for all of you.
So many thanks to everyone at FDL for fabulous, wonderful, incredible work. I’ve sent in a (belated) contribution and wish it could be more. You guys deserve zillions. On the appeal, could you give us a rundown on the current makeup of the DC Circuit? Of course Silberman is a goner, but is everyone there now a Silberman clone? In the Fifth Circuit where I clerked many years ago, panels were composed by a sort of lotto wheel. How does it work now in the DC Circuit? If the chief judge sets the panels, I’m afraid we’re cooked. Again, many, many, many thanks – where would we be without you?
My hat is off to all of you people, Jane and company.
You kicked ass.