With the recent release of a myriad of e-mails, documents and breathy reportage and leakage, it's no wonder that Rove and Gold Bars Luskin tried to get themselves out in front of the wave by giving multiple "exclusives." Oxymorons notwithstanding, when you have bad PR coming your way, it's always better to stand in front of it shouting "look, over there!" It's like the dogs in Up.

Lanny Breuer provided John Kiriakou, who responded to Dick Cheney's inquiries at CIA about Joe Wilson, with at least $5000 of legal services. Doesn't that mean he probably shouldn't have been the guy at DOJ who submitted a declaration insisting on keeping Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald secret?

Time has allowed a bunch of Bush partisans to put a nice spin on his non-pardon of Libby.

The fact that Dick Cheney's lawyer has already leaked the contents of his interview with Fitzgerald utterly devastates the government's arguments for keeping his interview materials secret.

Cheney's lawyer attended Cheney's Fitzgerald interview. Does the cover story he told reflect what Cheney said in his interview?

An annotated version of all the information DOJ doesn't want you to see in Cheney's interview with Fitzgerald--and where that information already exists in public form.

Jeralyn as an interesting piece up wherein she defends the WH's decision to continue to invoke Executive Privilege to withhold the Cheney interview documents. I have to disagree.

An annotated version of all the information DOJ doesn't want you to see in Cheney's interview with Fitzgerald--and where that information already exists in public form.

As BayStateLibrul pointed out in threads, SCOTUS denied the Wilsons cert today in their lawsuit against Dick Cheney and his band of leakers. As bmaz points out, the news is unsurprising. The die was cast by John Bates’ exploitation (and to some extent contortion) of glaring and gaping holes in the pleading by Plame/Wilson.

I've been reluctant to embrace suggestions that torture, iraq, and Valerie Plame were all going to coalesce into one linked story. But it is increasingly looking like that may be the case.