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

That the Appeals Court threw out the Wilsons' suit is not surprising. That the logic in Sentelle's opinion is so crappy and ignorant is. It basically argues that because Valerie Wilson has no recourse to the Privacy Act wrt Cheney and Libby and Rove, those thugs can violate Joe Wilson's First and Fifth Amendment rights too!

Colin Meloy - Valerie Plame

When evidence from the Scooter Libby trial showed that Dick Cheney had probably ordered Scooter Libby to leak Valerie Plame's identity, Cheney built a firewall that legally excused the leak--but still insulated George Bush from involvement in knowingly outing a CIA spy. Cheney claimed, on at least two occasions, that he himself had the authority to declassify classified information, presumably up to and including Valerie Plame's identity.

Who do YOU think Bush will pardon in his last days in office?

In a supplement to his responses to the House Judiciary Committee, Patrick Fitzgerald confirms what we've always suspected: Karl Rove was trying to have Patrick Fitzgerald fired while Fitzgerald was still investigating Rove for his role in leaking Valerie Wilson's identity--and the timing lines up perfectly with the Administration's efforts to fire a bunch of US Attorneys.

I'm receiving word that Bush just invoked executive privilege over Cheney's interview with Fitzgerald during the CIA leak case.

There are still a number of unexplained aspects of Novak's column. But the Attorney General seems determined to make sure we never explain them, since he's refusing to turn over the Bush and Cheney interview reports.