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Think Progress:
BREAKING: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney 'Deeply Involved' — Under oath, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby told a grand jury that he first learned that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent from conversations with the media.
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MSNBC:
Prosecutor: Libby 'wiped out' Cheney memo — Defense in CIA leak trial counters that White House tried to set up Libby — WASHINGTON - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald used his opening statement in the CIA leak trial Tuesday to allege that Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff lied …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Holy Moly — Norah O'Donnell is asking Andy Card and Leon Panetta if the president is going to have to ask Dick Cheney to resign as a result of what's being alleged at the Libby Trial. (They both punted.) — If that's the beltway chatter, look for the Republican noise machine to go into high gear.
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Crooks and Liars, Balloon Juice, Democrats.com, The Impolitic, Political Animal, Daily Kos, Wonkette and Shakespeare's Sister
Washington Post:
Defense Attorney Paints Libby as Scapegoat — I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was "put through the meat grinder" by the White House shortly after the Iraq war began, scapegoated to cloak the leak of a CIA officer's identity to the media by presidential adviser Karl Rove, Libby's lawyer contended today as Libby's perjury trial began.
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Wells' Opening Statement, Part Two — Picking up after lunch. — To remind you of housekeeping. This is not a transcript. It is as close as I can get. — And I'll timestamp my updates. I'll try to update every 15 minutes. So don't overtax the servers by trying to update every two minutes.
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Fitzgerald's Opening Statement — Here goes Fitzgerald... It will be utterly fascinating to see how Fitzgerald operates. I'm most interested, though, in how Fitzgerald will describe the obstruction charge and Libby's motive. What will Fitzgerald say Libby was obstructing, and why?
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Well's Opening Statement, Part One — Wells up. — As you learned a few days ago, my name is Ted Wells. And I speak for Scooter Libby. Scooter Libby is innocent. Totally innocent. — He is an innocent man and he has been wrongly and unfairly accused.
Michael J. Totten:
Hezbollah Riots in Lebanon (Continuously Updated) — While I was in Lebanon gathering the material I've been publishing, Hezbollah kept threatening to strangle the country by seizing major roads, including the one that leads to the airport. I was worried I might get stuck there, but I didn't.
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From Beirut to the Beltway, BBC, Haaretz, Blogs of War, Pajamas Media, A Blog For All, Blacksmiths of Lebanon and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Abu Kais / From Beirut to the Beltway:
Hizbullah, Aoun unleash terror on Lebanon — continuous updates — Hundreds of masked men are setting fire to tires and dumpsters after filling them with fuel in Beirut and other areas. Eyewitnesses told me that they saw bulldozers assisting the protestors by shoveling dirt and dumping it on some of the roads.
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Blacksmiths of Lebanon, Gateway Pundit, snapped shot, Publius Pundit and Blue Crab Boulevard
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Liberal talk show host trashes Clinton's staff — Fargo's liberal talker Ed Schultz broke out enraged against the staff of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in remarks broadcast Monday — and then met this morning with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), RAW STORY has learned. A Schultz aide said the meeting was long planned.
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
As Kerry ponders, Democrats crowd in
As Kerry ponders, Democrats crowd in
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Think Progress:
Embargoed: State of the Union Text — We'll start respecting White House embargoes when they start telling the truth. — Embargoed Until Delivery of the State of the Union Address at 9:01 PM EST — January 23, 2007 — STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS — As Prepared For Delivery
Amanda / Think Progress:
CNN's Glenn Beck Calls Anti-Gay Slur Simply A 'Naughty Name' — Yesterday on CNN Headline News, host Glenn Beck addressed the controversy raised after Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington called his castmate T.R. Knight a "faggot." — Beck called the New York Times's refusal to print the anti-gay slur …
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Associated Press, AMERICAblog, Media Matters for America, My Two Sense and Shakespeare's Sister
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
FAQ - The State of the Union Address! — 1) So what's going to happen tonight? — The only thing we can really know for sure is that Peggy Noonan will hate the speech. Unless of course she wrote it. Then she'll like it. Except for the delivery. — 2) Surely we know more about what's to come than that.
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Subpoenas raise new questions — A flurry of subpoenas issued late last year to three powerful House committees and two staffers are raising new questions about House policies on document retention as well as internal House rules governing response to subpoenas.
Drudge Report:
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8:45pm ET] — Good evening. — I'm Senator Jim Webb, from Virginia, where this year we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown - an event that marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth.
Ynetnews:
Iran: Israel, US will soon die — Ahmadinejad: Be assured that the US and Israel will soon end lives — Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report.
PJM / Pajamas Media:
The State of the Union is a Disaster: — The Speech George Bush Should Make Tuesday Night — Don't bother standing up or clapping, any of you. I already know who won the election, and I know how you feel. — I come before you tonight not to make amends, not to make it good, curry any favor or find any middle ground.