aipac and judy miller

* "A typical Washington, D.C. grand jury is about 75% African American. Fitzgerald’s is slightly more than that. This is not the kind of group Karl Rove feels at home with... To make matters statistically and demographically much worse for Rove and Scooter Libby, only 12 of the 23 grand jurors have to agree to indict them." (link)

* the other day i asked whether judy miller would turn up in the AIPAC case - justin raimondo thinks that she already has, and he also wonders whether the plame outing is *directly* related to aipac.

* via billmon, john dean thinks that Fitz might wimper outta town with nary an indictment: "In short, I think the frenzy is about to end -- and it will not go any further. Unless, of course, these folks were foolish enough to give false statements, perjure themselves or suborn perjury, or commit obstruction of justice. If they were so stupid, Patrick Fitzgerald must stay and clean house. "
the good news is that dean, unusually, makes a very weak argument.
but if he is right, the champagne bottles that i have chilled will be smashed across my computer and tv.

* "As for vice presidents, they can be indicted...
The problem with an indicted vice president, however, is that unless he resigns, he remains in office until impeached by the House of Representatives, and convicted by the Senate. That leads to a potentially absurd situation: As the presiding office of the Senate, a vice president who had been impeached could preside over his own trial. (The Constitution failed to account for this situation by naming another official who could preside -- a slight flaw, to say the least.)" (link)

* ive been watching lehrer all week and they havent mentioned traitorgate - they finally brought it up on friday with brooks and oliphant - and the second lehrer mentioned it, there was an outburst of nervous giggles