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He’s personally unpopular and Constitutionally independent and insignificant. What better target for a subpoena and a contempt citation?
Archive for the ‘Valerie Plame’ Category
July 2nd, 2007
Bring Libby in, immunize him, and ask him under oath what he had on Cheney and Bush.
June 19th, 2007
Category: Valerie Plame
Richard Cohen accuses Reggie Walton and Patrick Fitzgerald of Stalinism, because they’ve read the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and he hasn’t.
June 14th, 2007
Category: Valerie Plame
If Scooter doesn’t talk, Scooter goes to jail. Those are the rules of the game.
May 29th, 2007
Category: Campaign 2008, Valerie Plame
Fred Thompson announced two weeks ago that “everyone knew” - “it was obvious from the outset” - that Valerie Plame Wilson “was not a covered person” under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Oooops!
May 29th, 2007
Category: Valerie Plame
Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA office for the purposes of the IIPA up until the Novak column blew her cover. But by the time Scooter Libby got finished lying, there was no way of proving that any of the people involved had revealed her identity with the requisite knowledge and intent.
March 12th, 2007
Category: Valerie Plame
Mark proposes that Congress limit the president’s ability to pardon Scooter Libby by limiting his ablity to use Congressionally appropriated funds for that purpose. He argues that this position is consistent with the framers’ intent, because they were “Whigs.” This is a defensible position, but both on the basis of original intent and a larger [...]
