Jeffery Smith makes the same errors on the CIA Leak case that reporters have been making for years.

I think the DOJ is trying to distract Jon Stewart from laughing at Cheney by making a farcical argument about why his interview materials can't be released.

Mary pointed me to DOJ's latest attempt to prevent CREW from accessing the materials relating to Cheney's interview with Fitzgerald and the FBI. I'll get into what a load of crap the DOJ argument is later. But first, I want to lay out what the FOIA declarations say about the Cheney interview itself. First, the date.

We might yet get to see Cheney's interview in the CIA Leak case.

It's all part of a pattern: Republican jackass wants to show off what a big swinging insider dick he is, ends up blurting out obviously confidential information without a care in the world for what the consequences might be. Sometimes those consequences are comic, like in Virginia, but more often they're tragic or have the potential to be. And with the immediacy of the internet, there's no media filter to stop the dickitude from seeing the light of day.

Remember how Victoria Toensing always got to pretend she had no association with Scooter Libby's defense team? Well, now she's fund-raising to support Libby's PR flack's run for political office.

Murray Waas proves that Dick Cheney knew he might out Plame when he encouraged journalists to look into who purportedly sent Joe Wilson to Niger.

Murray's got a Christmas Eve scoop on Cheney's FBI interview. I'll return to the main point of it later, but IMO the really interesting detail is this one: Both Cheney and Libby have acknowledged that Cheney directed him to meet with Miller, but claimed that the purpose of that meeting was to leak other sensitive intelligence to discredit allegations made by Plame’s husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, that the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information to go to war with Iraq...

Tweety has started to count the days left for George Bush to pardon Scooter Libby. Bush has 69 days left to--as Tweety accurately describes it--complete the cover-up of the leak of Valerie Plame's identity.

President Bush sidetracked a congressional probe by wrongly invoking executive privilege, according to a draft bipartisan congressional report released today