I don’t know about you, but this Fitzmas movie brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my face. “Every time a Republican hack gets called out on his lies, an angel gets his wings!”

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Salon’s Tim Grieve:
It all sounds a little speculative, and we haven’t even gotten to the Times’ disclaimers yet: A “flurry of behind-the-scenes discussions” has “left open the possibility of last-minute surprises,” people “involved in the case” won’t “rule out the disclosure of previously unknown aspects of the case,” and the question of whether anyone other [...]

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Remember, the only bad indictment is no indictment at all:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Associates of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, expected an indictment on Friday charging him with making false statements to the grand jury in the C.I.A. leak inquiry, lawyers in the case said Thursday.
Karl Rove, President Bush’s [...]

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[Via Democratic Underground.]

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Is this the missing link on the Plame leak? Rumor has it that Bob Woodward is preparing a story for tomorrow on Fred Fleitz, John Bolton’s former chief of staff.
UPDATE: Richard Sale seems to think so.

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Now, this is pretty funny. Forbes magazine (which is such a rag, I cancelled my free subscription), has an article telling businesses how to attack bloggers who criticize their products:
“Bloggers are more of a threat than people realize, and they are only going to get more toxic. This is the new reality,” says Peter [...]

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I forgot to mention that Will wrote a great guide to the CIA leak case for people who haven’t been paying attention - until now.

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Steve Clemons has withdrawn the story about Fitzgerald renting new office space. His real estate source retracted the info.
Oh well. He goes on to say:
On other fronts, thus far I am standing with what I posted the other day about the multi-point run-down of what Fitzgerald was doing. While he hasn’t called a press conference [...]

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I keep thinking it can’t get any better, and yet it does:
Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence [...]

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I just got this link in an email from one of my friends, who made a reference to one of my hard-drinking exes.
I shall say no more. Because I am a lady, I am.

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It’s not Fitzmas, but it’s close:
The U.S. Attorney’s office has indicted Tom Noe, the former Maumee coin dealer suspected of laundering money into President Bush’s reelection campaign, Mr. Noe’s attorney told The Blade today.
Jon Richardson said he was called this afternoon and informed of the indictment. The details of the indictment are being withheld until [...]

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CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is focusing his investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity on whether White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove committed perjury, two lawyers involved in the case told CNN.
Fitzgerald is expected to announce Friday the results of his investigation and whether he has come up [...]

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So a handful of locals (myself included) sat on the Inquirer panel about bloggers last night and I passed along your thoughtful comments to Dan Rubin, who writes the Inky’s Blinq. Since we agreed to keep it off the record, no details.
But I can tell you that boy, I wouldn’t want to be a journalist [...]

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You know, I don’t care how long I have to wait - as long as he does it right:
The prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson has secured at least one indictment in the case from a majority of the 23 grand jurors, lawyers and intelligence officials close to the case [...]

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Somegirl’s mom swears by the Karl Rove Diet. Try it, girls, it’s fabulous!

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Yeah, I hear they’re planning to bust out with their “Gay Daughters of Prominent Crooks” chat room:
America Online Inc. hired Mary Cheney, the 36-year-old daughter of Vice President Cheney, to offer advice on building up Web site businesses, a company spokesman said yesterday.

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Telling it like it is:
CLEVELAND - There was outrage at the gas pump today as motorists learned that the major oil companies posted huge, record breaking quarterly profits.
BP announced they made $6.5 billion in profits during the summer months when gas was $3 a gallon…
“They’re just stealing from the American public and everyone knows it,” [...]

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But then, I’m just a blogger so I don’t have to be classy:
…”The fact that this may become a crisis of governance should please no one,” Wilson said at a private hotel reception before speaking in downtown Seattle Wednesday evening. [...]
Greeted by a boisterous, packed house of about 900 people at Seattle’s Town Hall, Wilson [...]

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I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait:
At the U.S. courthouse, the grand jury heard evidence for three hours, but Fitzgerald did not make any announcements about indictments related to his two-year probe. Fitzgerald emerged an hour after adjourning the panel and offered no comment.
While White House staffers were tense, Fitzgerald’s team relaxed from [...]

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Via TalkLeft:
On February 11, 2004, Newsday (quoted at length here) reported that former White House Press Aide Adam Levine testified before the Plame grand jury for 45 minutes on Friday, February 6. The paper also reported:
In the grand jury sessions, press aides were confronted with internal White House documents, mainly e-mails and telephone logs, between [...]

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Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination.

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CNN: Fitzgerald says no indictments today.

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Paul Begala has a good post up at TPM Cafe on what it’s like to be in a White House under seige:
Mr. Bush would do well to augment his current staff, a C-Team if ever there was one, with some stronger characters. But to read the Bush-Miers correspondence is to gain a disturbing insight [...]

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Tbogg, as usual, has the definitive snark:
I’m didn’t really care much one way or the other who won the World Series (although I did get a charge out of watching George H.W. and Barbara Bush witness something even more disappointing than their children), but it was nice to see an old school team win it [...]

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Laura Rozen, as always, has lots of good stuff on the unfolding yellow cake document forgery scandal.

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You don’t want to eat all of this in one sitting, you’ll get sick. But there’s enough here to last you a long, long time.

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Apparently many parts of Florida, including Broward Co., are without food or water. And since there’s no phone service, residents can’t call out for help.
What a disgrace.

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The Washington Note has more great Fitzmas news:
Patrick Fitzgerald’s intermediaries denied that there was any significance to the establishment of a new website, minimalist as it is, for the Office of the Special Counsel which is investigating the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA responsibilities to the media.
Fitzgerald’s people said that the investigation [...]

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Oh dear. The Red State Fighting Keyboarders are smoking crack again:
My sources are relaying to me information that may be very good news re: the Plame Case.
Although I cannot substantiate this info 100%, I am receiving this from sources very close to the investigation and grand jury:
No indictments for Rove, Libby or any member [...]

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I feel bad that they’re picking on poor little Karl, God bless his heart:
The prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation presented a summary of his case to a federal grand jury yesterday and is expected to announce a final decision on charges in the two-year-long probe tomorrow, according to people familiar with the case.
Even as [...]

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