More Fitzgerald / Plame

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I've just spent the last hour reading emptywheel's magnificent investigative summary of the Fitzgerald / Plame case at the Next Hurrah.

It's the piece that we've been waiting to read on this from the earliest days of Josh Marshall saying: "Really big story, on the way...developing." This is it. Worth reading every sentence, and hoping Fitzgerald has built his case.

I'll add more links to this developing story as I find them.

  • AP reporting that Rove will testify before grand jury again: (link.)
  • Reuters reports that Judith Miller may be asked to testify again before Fitzgerald.

    • Comments

    &y said…
    The emptywheel article is brilliant.

    ... and it's further evidence that good long blog posts are A-OK. Reading emptywheel was like reading your de Mello Iraq essays--sadness when the scrollbar finally hit the bottom of the browser window.

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    Department of Other
    A TalkLeft post that may be of interest to those who are puzzled about this "target letter" business. (I'm personally finding it difficult to give much of a damn about that aspect of the day's news, but there's the link, anyway.) Preposting update: JMM has now added his reading of the DA's Manual on target letters, too. Blah.
    5:14 PM
    NYBri said…
    judy miller will appear again on tuesday...no link, sorry.
    8:28 PM
    kid oakland said…
    Found one, thanks NYBri.

    Not to give away trade secrets, but Google Blog search is way potent....it gives crisper news links than Google News if you ask me.
    8:56 PM
    kid oakland said…
    re: &y

    Thanks...and thanks for those links....

    You might like this JMM update....:)...

    and this one too.
    9:13 PM
    kid oakland said…
    re: wg and Fitzgerald

    Now that's 'coercion' of a sort we all can get behind...metaphorically speaking, of course.

    head screwing followed by frogmarching, hmmm.

    what's next, as &y asks, unindicted co-conspirators?
    9:20 PM
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