He's not accepting a plea bargain because he's been promised a presidential p-a-r-d-o-n.

I think it's a huge tactical error. Libby's defense is "I forgot." Now your lawyer says Rove and the WH is out to dump this on you. No one could ever forget that. This "defense" infact provides a motive for Libby to lie--i.e. they are trying to dump this on me and I won't let them. Also, now the media is on fire and this is much higher profile than it may have been otherwise. Big mistake. Now we have this story a few hours from the SOTU with the Pres at 28% and the vultures circling around the VP and Rove. Not a good day for the defense or the administration. Score one day for Fitzgerald.

After the prosecutions strong opening, I thought the defense did a brilliant job of deflecting the blame. If you look at the division of the defense statement, it involved blame Rove, blame the faulty memory of reporters and then blame the faulty memory of government employees. For good measure, it was mentioned that Libby has a poor memory so he's not responsible. I think that the blame Rove was a warning in disguise, that simply meant that I'm not going down alone.

Wow, according to Digby (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116957751746718548):

"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.)"

As Atrios put it, Norah O'Donnell (!).

"If I go down, you come with me...or at least, I'll try"

Libby should have known better...Dart Vader Dick NEVER reaches out for whomever "falls" of the ship.

It's just "friendly fire" Scooter...

NY Times reports that defense was that Rove was crucial to the survival of the Republican party.

So...

1. The survival of the Republican Party depended on protecting a lawbreaker? Sounds like ethics as usual.

2. Rove wasn't necessary to protect the Republicans; he was needed to save G.W.B.--which in the end, could destroy the Republicans for a generation. In the long run, it would have been better for the whole country had Rove been pinned with this.

Hmm...Libby was the one who allegedly lied to the feds and the grand jury, so he's the only one on the hook for that. I don't see how anyone put him through the meat grinder or hung him out to dry; if the allegations are true, he hung himself with his own rope.

Awesome that it comes on the day of the State of the Union. Hope the talking heads all bring that up tonight after the SOTU. We shall see.

There's no way Scooter Libby, long-time right-hand-man to Cheney, perhaps the most powerful man in the world, is acting without the VP's approval. All those Republican donors who contributed to Libby's defense fund wanted to keep the White House and GOP untainted by scandal. Too late, certainly, but that was their goal. This is akin to the NH phone-jammer defense bills being paid by GOP campaign committees - protect the big players at all costs.

What motivation would these people have to support Libby? It has to further their interests. How does it do that? Well, there are no more elections for Rove to win. After the midterms, he's clearly useless for national campaigns. Think about it from Cheney's perspective - this idiot who couldn't deliver Congress is no longer useful. But an all-around trooper like Libby, loyal to Cheney at every turn, has years of service behind him and probably a few more left. Time to throw Rove overboard. Who would stop him? W? Look at him. The President is W can't stop an anti-war resolution in the Senate - can he really stop Cheney from doing whatever he wants? Could he ever?

Turdblossom and his bestest pal George just cost the the republican party control of congress and the immunity from investigations that went with it. If this can be hung on a lame-duck president with no chance of furthering any agenda in the next two years and a political advisor who's made a lot of republican enemies as well as democratic ones, then maybe (in Cheney et al's fevered imagination) the "grownup" wing of the party will be able to weasel out of trouble.

Received this email from Salon this am.

Far as I know they have not written to me before.

"Scooter's tragic innocence
By Nick Bromell

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/24/scooter_libby/index.html

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