“Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level WH meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

The meeting came one day before WH officials tried to get approval for the same program from then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft [who was in the hospital, etc].”

Here’s the text from the article:

And did the Poo put this on the front page? No, it was too busy covering vital items like prices for Nationals tickets, so it buried it on A3.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..amp;sub=AR

http://www.tfot.info/component…..bfa6c32ce2

CTuttle @ 142

Otis clearly missed the reasoning for Scooter’s lying! Jail time is necessary to force Libby to reconsider his options, i.e. rollover on Shooter and Turd Blossom!!! Jez my $.02!!!

Over at the white collar crime profs’ blog, Ellen Podgor makes an interesting point. In her view, Libby’s leverage is gone. Whatever he might know, his testimony has little or no value. After all, he’s a convicted perjurer — why should a jury believe anything he says?

Oopsie.

To paraphrase Reagan…negotiate but confirm.

Any testimony that Libby offers to ameliorate his guilt would have to be backed up by hard evidence. But also a jury would only believe Libby’s new version if it actually served to explain why he lied and obstructed in the first place.

Fred Malek was also Richard Nixon’s Jew-counter

He’s been at the center, or near to it, of GOP evildoing for some time.

I’ve been popping in and out, all evening, slipping over to DKos to read the important piece on Malek, which I nominate for the best tidbit of the night (so far), as well as writing to my Congress critter about it. And getting handouts ready for our Progressive Democrats of Hawaii meeting tomorrow evening, and chasing down noteworthy tidbits like Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps. So I know that by the time I finish reading the comments, most of you will be sawing logs in slumber land.

So this is kind of a driveby to wave hello to those who haven’t already signed off for the evening, before resuming my reading of the comments and getting ready to make lunch for tomorrow. Geez, maybe PW has already put up the late late show, and I’m already in EPU-ville.

See ya!

Bob in HI

larue @ 195

Hire a thug. Immediately.

Or call your credit card company…

Not enuff drama for a big lizard!

GSD, you are a one-person info-tsunami.
Any confirmation on the Turkish incursion into Kurdistan? All I see are denials.

It appears the official stance(both US and Turkey) is that no incursion took place. The more likely case is that there was a limited incursion, not an invasion.

Link.

-GSD