I’m puzzled. When Karl Rove finally spoke in public about the Plame Affair last week, he said that Armitage was the one who “used her name.” But didn’t Novak look it up in Who’s Who?
Aha. I see you subscribe to the immaculate leak theory of Plameogenesis.
It’s true that Novak started making that claim after the […]

At Slate, Timothy Noah has written a defense of Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s jail sentence that is riddled with errors, fallacies, and non-sequiturs. To wit:
1. Noah says that Libby “probably didn’t understand that Plame’s identity was a government secret.” In fact, in Libby’s indictment, we read that:
Shortly after publication of the article in The […]

Today at the White House press briefing, I got into a somewhat heated (on my part) dispute with John Gizzi, political editor of the right wing web magazine HumanEvents.com. It happened like this…
Earlier in the briefing, the press was asking Tony Snow some pretty good questions about Bush’s commutation yesterday of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. […]

Threatening letters to Judge Walton are counterproductive.

After six years of being lied to by the Bush administration and the pundits, the American people finally hold someone accountable…

Ted Wells wants Scooter back, Pat Fitzgerald would rather have the truth…

Tim Russert cemented his reputation as the Bruce Strauss of Washington journalism during his testimony at the Scooter Libby trial. During Sunday’s episode of Meet the Press, he gave other, lesser journalistic lights the opportunity to demean the profession each in their own imitable ways.
The Politico’s Roger Simon grabbed most of the attention from […]

Why are lefty bloggers embracing the defense’s attack on Russert’s credibility?

Tim Russert delivers the prosecution’s knockout punch…

In his grand jury testimony that we heard today, Scooter Libby introduced a novel concept to the field of national security law…