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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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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.
Opinion Journal:
Obstruction for What? — Libby is charged with lying about a crime that wasn't committed. — Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation took nearly two years, sent a reporter to jail, cost millions of dollars, and preoccupied some of the White House's senior officials.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:Libby's Indictment does not depend upon the recollection of reporters
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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 …
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:At Milestone in Inquiry, Rove, and the G.O.P., Breathe a Bit Easier
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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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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:WAS EXPOSING VALERIE PLAME A CRIME?....Was Scooter Libby guilty …
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:WHAT SMEAR? — Some observations from the wrenching experience …
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The Colossus of Rhodey
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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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.
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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 …
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
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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Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Student ghosts unmasked in Newton — Primary school cancels Halloween celebration — NEWTON — When students at Underwood Elementary School walk to their classrooms on Monday, there will be no witches, SpongeBob SquarePants, or Johnny Damons there to greet them. — No skeleton paintings or Frankenstein tattoos, either.
Eric / Is That Legal?:
Sam Alito, As I Knew Him. — peculation is rampant that Bush is preparing to nominate Sam Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to the Supreme Court. — Sam Alito was the U.S. Attorney who hired me into the Appeals Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey back in 1989.
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Terror cell 'smuggled missiles into Europe' — An Islamic terror cell has smuggled two surface-to-air missiles into Europe in a plot to shoot down planes at one of France's main airports, it was claimed yesterday. — French and Algerian extremists with links to al-Qa'eda bought …
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White House:
President's Remarks on the Resignation of Scooter Libby — THE PRESIDENT: Today I accepted the resignation of Scooter Libby. Scooter has worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and sacrificed much in the service to this country. He served the Vice President and me through extraordinary times in our nation's history.
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