Ana is traveling, so here’s a link to her take on the Libby verdict. (And, yes, go ahead and say it: Linking to other people’s work means I am shamelessly avoiding doing any of my own.)
As Ana mentioned earlier today, this has been a particularly bad week for an Administration that hasn’t had many good ones in the past couple years. Nine U.S. soldiers died in Iraq yesterday. Hearings on Walter Reed Hospital and the fired U.S. Attorneys have made the administration look both insensitive to wounded veterans and dismissive [...]
Never a good idea to predict what a jury is going to do. Guilty on four counts. Here’s our colleague Reynolds Holding’s explanation of what it means.
So, I read the fact that the jury was asking a lot of questions completely wrong: They’ve reached a decision and it will be read at noon today. I still think he’ll get off but I’ll be happy to be wrong about that, too.
Walter Reed, the Libby trial, the war, and now, the escalating malfeasance apparent in the dismissal of eight US attorneys: The telephone calls to Iglesias by Domenici and Wilson appear to put them in conflict with congressional ethics rules that bar contacts with federal agency officials during most active investigations. People started talking about “the [...]
