The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has accredited members of the Media Bloggers Association to cover the Scooter Libby trial. The Associated Press is linking to a page aggregating their posts as a convenience for our readers. The opinions expressed in the blogs are solely those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Associated Press or its members.
<p>By now you've <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.courttv.com/inside/2007/03/radio_and_telev.html">read</a> that Bryan and Savannah had the good fortune (or unfortunate curse, depending on your perspective) to attend last week's Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner. </p> <p>I've attended in past years, and I agree with Savannah's better half that it is "roughly as entertaining but far less exclusive than the White House Correspondents' dinner." </p> <p>These events aren't without controversy, by the way.
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The one constant I've observed, in 27 years as an on-again, off-again political reporter, is that Republicans return reporters' calls and Democrats don't. To a great extent, this is what got Scooter Libby into trouble, calling back The New York Times's Judy Miller and Time's Matt Cooper. Libby is a superb example of the much-vaunted Republican Party message discipline-he's got tenacious follow-through. He's one of the people who helped give the Bush administration its reputation-intact as recently as 24 months ago-as the most masterful iteration of Republican media management, a leviathan of political marketing.
No kidding....
<p>Did you miss Valerie Plame Wilson's testimony before a House committee yesterday? See it <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1205">here</a>.</p> <p>And a note on what you don't see in the video: one of the dismissed Libby jurors sitting in the gallery!</p>
at Think Progress. via Talk Left |
Disclaimer: This is nowhere near a transcript... Plame said she learned about Robert Novak's disclosure of her identity when her husband showed her Novak's column in the newspaper. She said her first thoughts were that the disclosure had damaged her life, her family, her career, her contacts in...
Disclaimer: This is not a transcript. Westmoreland: The counter-proliferation division seems like a place where people would keep good records. Plame: Yes. Westmoreland: How could they forget how they came up with Joe Wilson's name as the person to send to Niger? Plame: At the time, they were...
C-SPAN and the House of Representatives are broadcasting Valerie Wilson's testimony before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform , chaired by bulldog watchdog Henry Waxman (D-CA). According to a July 14, 2003 statement that is still on the committee's website, the purpose of the...
<p>Tomorrow, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1205">hearing</a> that will attempt to answer the question the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/09/29/LI2005092901976.html">Scooter Libby trial</a> studiously avoided: was it wrong to leak Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA identity to the press?</p> <p>Ms.
<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.courttv.com/photos/uncategorized/libby3_1.jpg"><img title="Libby" height="128" alt="Libby" src="http://blog.courttv.com/inside/images/libby3_1.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT:right;MARGIN:0px 0px 5px 5px;"/></a>I've got Libby Libby Libby on the brain. Seriously folks, I can't stop thinking about <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.courttv.com/trials/libby/030607_verdict_cnn.html">Scooter Libby</a> (the trial, not the man). </p> <p>I know, I know.
Jay Rosen has a long homage to those who blogged the Scooter Libby trial, most notably the Firedoglake gang. As a critic who follows the fortunes of the American press, and writes about its collapse under Bush, I found it extremely painful to sit on the sidelines for this event. But as compensation I had [...]
I have an op-ed today in the Rocky Mountain News, Scooter Libby Takes One for the Team. It's about why I was rooting for both sides in different ways, and why, although I think the verdict was correct, I feel cheated. Hope you'll read it.
David Corn has a new article in The Nation, "Cheney on Trial." Using testimony from the Scooter Libby trial, Corn shows: ....beyond resolving whether Libby had mounted a criminal cover-up to hide his--and perhaps Cheney's--involvement in the leak episode, the trial exposed the inner...
<p>So, the Scooter Libby jury has spoken ... 4 guilty verdicts that will carry, realistically, the possibility of six months to three years of incarceration in some form (think Martha Stewart, and some combination of prison, house arrest, and extended probation) ... not a great surprise, given the testimony, but I'm still puzzled by some observers who've characterized the verdict as a condemnation, in some fashion, of the Iraq war.
Robert Novak, the columnist whose July 14, 2003 article outed Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA operative, has a new pro-Scooter Libby column. Among his disclosures: Actually, in my first interview with Fitzgerald after he was named special prosecutor, he indicated that he knew Armitage was my...
I was waiting for Matt Sheffield to post about Scooter Libby's four "guilty" verdicts before I said anything but it looks like Matt's busy. So I'll just say that I think...
Noel K. Gallagher wrote in Portland Press Herald Bloggers get chance to cover Libby trial, and they like it
Among the 100 credentialed reporters covering the trial were a handful of bloggers, including Dutson and Robert Cox, president of the 1,000-member Media Bloggers Association. "We accomplished what we were trying ultimately to do: cover the trial and distribute the material.
Drudge has the transcript from Chris Matthews' interview with juror #10, Ann Redington: MSNBC host Chris Matthews spoke with Libby juror Ann Redington on HARDBALL. Juror [#10] says she would...
Wonders never cease. A juror in the Scooter Libby trial recommends he be spared jail and receive a pardon from President Bush. “He seemed like a ton of fun. ... I didn’t want to see him and his wife and say he was guilty of a crime,” Redington told MSNBC’s Chris...
BooMan Tribune contributor, clammyc, has a word of advice for the Bush admin – “Don’t you dare pardon Libby”! Also, Steven D puts the smack down on post-trial exultation with a reminder that with nearly two years to go, there is no limit to the potential damage ahead. TalkLeft’s Jeralyn gives us...
<p>Well, one juror has, anyway.</p> <p>Former Washington Post reporter and Libby juror Denis Collins demonstrates ample writing chops in an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/docs/libby/">online piece</a> for the Huffington Post. It's worth a read.</p> <p>Tidbits:</p> <ul><li>Jurors thought former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was "Slick Willie" and "not believable";</li> <li>One of the jurors - eventually dismissed for almost telling her fellow panelists what her mother had read about the case - wrote a note in court to a fellow juror that read, "Look at the eye candy in the third row."';</li> <li>Jurors enjoyed seeing journo-celebrity <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101289">Nina Totenberg</a> in the courtroom;</li> <li>The defense was "so aggressive" in cross examining <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_(journalist)">Judith Miller</a>, it "created sympathy" among the jurors;</li> <li>Way back in the 1980s, when juror Denis Collins was a Washington Post reporter, he suggested to his then editor, Bob Woodward, that the newspaper hire <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/DOWD-BIO.html">Maureen Dowd</a> (with whom Collins had grown up).
<p>Once you've been <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=wk3uMejc1ScvypkNnQ49BO2-94IJpKNi&UserName=Unknown">convicted</a> of four felony counts, does it really matter what date the judge chooses to sentence you? Normally, no. In Scooter Libby's case, however, the June 5, 2007 sentencing date could make a huge difference.
Crooks and Liars has the video of faux right wing pundit Stephen Colbert's take last night on the Scooter Libby trial. Pretty funny.
Mar 07, 2007 04:30 AM Rick Westhead Staff reporter "With media magnate Conrad Black's trial only days away, U.S. prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is likely to be in a good mood to start the high-profile case. "Fitzgerald, who works as a federal prosecutor in Chicago, has spent recent months as a...
Libby Juror #9, Denis Collins, a journalist and author, made the rounds of every network yesterday. On Larry King Live, he said he'd be writing about his experiences but hadn't yet decided in what form. Today, his 7 page online account of what happened inside the jury room appears...
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When you're covering a verdict, your heart's already beating a little faster. But if there's no camera in the courtroom, there's even more pressure because -- instead of everyone seeing for themselves in real-time -- you're the link from the courtroom to the outside world. You have to get the news out right and you have to get it out quick. If the latter's your first priority, you can have big problems like another network did yesterday.
Scooter Libby juror Denis Collins explains the thought process of the jury. It confirms and expands on some quotes highlighted yesterday at the Drudge Report. Jurors in I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s perjury trial were certain of the former vice presidential aide’s guilt, but they also harbored sympathy for him as a “fall guy,” one of [...]
...then Scooter, Scooter, Scooter is a convict, convict, convict. I'm sorry, but I've been saving that line since the whole trial began. Now that the trial is over (not counting...
Politics TV brings you the final v-log from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and Marcy Wheeler (Empty Wheel) of the Next Hurrah. I'm going to miss them both. They provided invaluable coverage of this trial. At the end, they talk about the impact of bloggers on the trial and credit all of us who...