Blogging the Scooter Libby Trial
A New York Times profile of bloggers at the Scooter Libby trial, especially the FireDogLake gang, includes a discussion of the Media Bloggers Association's role and the larger implications for blogger-mainstream media relations: For blogs, the Libby trial marks a courthouse coming of age. It is the first federal case for which independent bloggers have been given official credentials along with ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 15, 2007 10:17
Libby Trial Judge: Defense Misled on Libby Taking Stand
Judge Reggie Walton castigated the Libby defense team yesterday for closing the case without calling their client, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to the stand. Judge Walton said he “believed all along in the process that Mr. Libby was going to testify” and that his lawyers were now “playing games with the process.” He made his remarks out with the jury out of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 15, 2007 06:33
Plame vs. Wilson
Kevin Drum finds it interesting that Ari Fleischer today testified that Scooter Libby told him, four days before Bob Novak's story was filed, about Valerie Plame's role in sending her husband, Joe Wilson, to Niger. Not "Valerie Wilson," the name she used socially, but "Valerie Plame," her maiden name and one that she used only on agency business. . . . ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 29, 2007 16:40
Libby Defense Team Losing Hearts and Minds?
Christy Hardin Smith believes some legal maneuvering by Scooter Libby's army of lawyers that occurred outside the view of the jury will ultimately undermine Libby's credibility. Essentially, they are using every trick in the book to introduce the "memory defense" despite months of pre-trial wrangling and rulings from Judge Reggie Walton precluding them doing so unless and until their ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 26, 2007 07:36
Libby Trial Blogging
OTB's stint live-blogging the Scooter Libby trial has ended. The reins have been passed to Wizbang's Kevin Aylward and Rory O'Connor of Media is a Plural. You can follow their coverage and all the other MBA bloggers here. It was a worthwhile experience but confirmed my suspicions that a reporter's job is often quite tedious. Sitting there ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 25, 2007 18:21
Libby Trial: Cathie Martin’s Testimony Damaging
The testimony of Cathie Martin has been by far the most damaging so far to Scooter Libby's case. She is currently a Deputy Communications Secretary for the Bush White House and worked for Vice President Cheney during the period in question, so it will be difficult to impeach her credibility or motives. Her testimony makes it clear that by July ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 25, 2007 12:32
Libby Prosecution: Cathie Martin Testimony
At 11:22, after a lengthy dispute over documents, the prosecution called Cathie Martin, a 1993 Harvard Law graduate who became a senior public affairs official in the Office of the Vice President from 2001 to 2004. She's now Deputy Communications Director in the White House. Live blog below the fold. Government questioning: Nearly daily contact with Libby during time in OVP. Practice at ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 25, 2007 11:29
Libby Prosecution: Craig Schmall Testimony (Pt. 2)
Day three of testimony began with the resumption of cross-examination of Craig Schmall, the CIA manager who briefed Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney during the period in question. Live blogging below the fold with any breaking news also in separate posts. Court began precisely at 9:30, as scheduled. Judge Walton is amazingly prompt, having begun all sessions my four ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 25, 2007 09:33
Libby Trial: Subtle Distinctions in Guilt or Innocence
David Corn has been in the media room with me covering the Libby trial for the Nation and a book he is writing. While we're coming at it from rather different ideological perspectives, his assessment of the evidence is fair and his knowledge of the details of the case is encyclopedic. His assessment of the first couple of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 25, 2007 09:22
Scooter Libby Met With Tom Cruise on Scientology
Scooter Libby's CIA briefer, Craig Schmall, reports that he and Libby had a discussion on Saturday* June 14, 2003 about a visit from Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz, with the former interested in talking about Germany's treatment of Scientologists. Libby was apparently quite excited about the visit. *Counsel for both sides stipulated that June 14 was indeed a Saturday. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 24, 2007 16:05
