* "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' written answers to questions about the Bush administration's eavesdropping program may require him to testify a second time before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel's Republican chairman said Monday... Having Gonzales called back before the Committee in order to explain the glaring discrepancies between his testimony and his subsequent "on-second-thought" letter can endow the scandal with an even greater whiff of deceit and cover-up." (link)
* "Futures contracts on a guilty verdict for Libby have soared to 57 percent in recent days on the web-based trading site intrade.com." (link)
i'm surprised it is so low.
* here's bob fertik's take on the wsj impeachment article: "Today the Wall Street Journal broke the Corporate Media taboo on ImpeachPAC. The article is generally fair, but ignores the main distinction between the impeachments of Clinton and Bush - only a rightwing minority of 26% wanted to impeach Clinton, while a mainstream majority of 52%-53% wants to impeach Bush. And the polls on Bush's impeachment were taken before the Dubai deal and the Katrina tapes, which have pushed Bush's disapproval ratings up to 60%..."
* a coupla hilights from the server logs:
1) someone at the DoJ in DC is looking into Ziyad Abduljawad
2) someone at NBC is looking into Dusty Foggo
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Eh, 57% sounds about right to me. It all depends on what Judge Walton does in response to the greymail strategy. If Walton can come up with a good framework for giving Libby's lawyers declassified PDB summaries that Fitzgerald will sign off on, then I think there's a very good chance that Libby's toast.
The only way Libby skates here is if Walton has to dismiss the case because he can't resolve the PDB issue. I think Walton realizes that he's under the judicial microscope right now, and will lose a lot of face amongst his peers if he can't come up with a workable solution.
Unless, of course, Rove has promised him an appointment to the SC or the DC circuit for "cooperation" in this manner.
Of course, all this ultimately rests on whether or not Libby will get a pardon. As long as we can keep him in the news on a monthly basis, it will be hard for the admin to justify a pardon, particularly if there are more indictments.
viget - "The only way Libby skates here is if Walton has to dismiss the case because he can't resolve the PDB issue." - yeah, i agree, that's why i thought 57 was low.
it seems that yuo are saying that there is a really good chance the greymail strategy will work?
57% isnt much different from flip o' the coin
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