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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
'Official A' Stands Out in Indictment — WASHINGTON — In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as "Official A." — The unidentified official could become a courtroom witness …
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Byron York / The Corner on National Review Online:
THE WORD ON LIBBY — AND THE BIG PICTURE — A number of observations tonight from people who know and follow the CIA leak case: — The first is that they view the indictment against Lewis Libby as very strong. One source called it "as clear-cut an indictment" as one would ever see …
rawstory.com:
Rove is 'Official A,' Novak's 'indirect' source, lawyers say — Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove was the mysterious 'Official A' named in the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, lawyers close to the case have told RAW STORY.
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:At Milestone in Inquiry, Rove, and the G.O.P., Breathe a Bit Easier
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Prairie Weather, AMERICAblog, BrothersJudd Blog, Severe Writers Block and Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Novel Strategy Pits Journalists Against Source — In pressing his indictment of I. Lewis Libby Jr., the special prosecutor is pitting three prominent journalists against their former source, a strategy that experts in law and journalism say has rarely been used or tested.
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Michael Ledeen / The Corner on National Review Online:
A STRAIN — I think the indictment stinks. You have to parse it very carefully to figure out whether Libby is accused of lying to the grand jury or the FBI, or to journalists. Go look. I finally concluded that it says that Libby lied to the grand jury (and elsewhere the FBI) …
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Ace of Spades HQ, The Mahablog, Two Babes and a Brain, prnewswire.com, »«TBogg»« and GOP Bloggers
Billmon:
Fitzgerald Pulls His Punch — The lawyer blogger types no doubt can answer this (or at least offer more informed speculation than I can) but reading Libby's indictment, I have to wonder why Fitzgerald didn't hit him with the 1917 Espionage Act — or even the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (a.k.a. The Big Enchilada.)
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The Corner on National Review Online:
THE INDICTMENT DOES NOT ALLEGE ALL COVER-UP AND NO CRIME — There are several crimes laid out in the espionage act, but the one that applies most closely on these facts requires the government to prove that a person (a) obtained classified information lawfully (e.g., in his official capacity) …
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rawstory.com:
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Libby indicted — Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been indicted for five counts by the federal grand jury investigating the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame for perjury, obstruction of justice …
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Scott Shields / MyDD:David Addington: Meet Cheney's New Chief of Staff
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Sirotablog, The Next Hurrah, TAPPED, War and Piece, Think Progress, AGITPROP and whatever already!
Don Surber:
Halloween Trackback Party — Hey, it was emailed to me. If you can think of a good caption, put it in comments. — Time to kick back and relax with a Halloween Trackback Party. You link me, I check trackbacks and I link you. Links can be on anything. Offer void after noon on Sunday.
Washington Post:
A New Moment of Truth For a White House in Crisis — With yesterday's indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide, President Bush's administration has become a textbook example of what can go wrong in a second term. Along with ineffectiveness, overreaching, intraparty rebellion …
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Voter ID Law Is Overturned — Georgia Can No Longer Charge For Access to Nov. 8 Election — In a case that some have called a showdown over voting rights, a U.S. appeals court yesterday upheld an injunction barring the state of Georgia from enforcing a law requiring citizens …
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:
WORST WEEK EVER/BEST WEEK EVER — Earlier this week the mainstream press was awash with stories of this being President Bush's "worst week ever." We'll forgive them their hyperbole since their evidence was pretty strong: looming indictments in the Plame case; the faltering Miers nomination; and the 2000th military death in Iraq.
Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
A Prosecutor's Focus Shifted to a Cover-Up — WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - The capital stopped in its tracks on Friday to watch a trim, plain, soft-spoken prosecutor whose voice it had barely heard in two years call the most important aide to the most powerful vice president in American history a liar.
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The Politburo Diktat
Washington Post:
No More Special Counsels — Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should be the final proof that the system of "special prosecutors" is bankrupt and ought to be abandoned. — Fitzgerald, a highly respected federal prosecutor from Chicago …
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The Anonymous Liberal
