"I'm pretty much going to stay out of it until the course -- the case has finally run its final -- the course it's going to take."

So says President Bush , responding to inquiries about whether he will pardon Scooter Libby. I know Bush often stumbles over his words -- an...

"The time for a pardon is now."

The Wall Street Journal editorializes that Bush should pardon Libby: In hindsight, the defense seems to have blundered by portraying Mr. Li...

Minutes after we hear that their notes make the jurors seem confused, the verdict is in.

Here 's the piece about the confused-sounding notes. In their questions, which were released Tuesday morning, jurors seemed confused abo...

"'Humanly possible' is just a nebulous term, and I don't know exactly what it means."

The judge in the Libby case refuses to answer the question the jury asked. Remember, we puzzled over the question here . I wrote: "Is ...

"Is it necessary for the government to present evidence that it is not humanly possible for someone not to recall an event?"

So asked the jury in the Libby case, seeking a clarification from the judge about the meaning of reasonable doubt. They've been deliber...

Here they are, with laptops, salami, and crackers...

It's the bloggers! They're covering the Libby trial. All day long during the trial, one Firedoglake blogger is on duty to beam to ...

Things I read/watched but don't quite feel like blogging about this morning.

1. People kind of hate real estate agents. 2. Maybe you really don't have to save that much for your retirement. 3. A developmentally di...

"Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others."

So read the note from Dick Cheney, translated for the jury by Scooter Libby's lawyer Ted Wells, paraphrased by Michael Isikoff: The vic...

Judging a candidate by his fiction writing.

George Allen attacks Jim Webb for the tawdriness in his novels. The stuff is rather awful, but it does seem lame to go after fiction. Poli...

Did Patrick Fitzgerald act improperly?

The NYT asks , in light of what we've just found out: that he knew the identity of the leaker all along. Now, the question of whether Mr...

The Plame leak "came from a man who had no apparent intention of harming anyone."

Writes Michael Isikoff in Newsweek , revealing that the source was Richard Armitage. ...Armitage was a member of the administration's sm...

"You cannot say that it is unimportant and something you forgot."

Says Richard A. Sauber (lawyer for Time's Matthew Cooper), explaining the relationship between the new revelations (that Scooter Libby ...

I am a hypocrite...

But so are you. Except that I'm not. Still, thanks for admitting that you are! The subject: the on-and-off concern about national secur...

"A government investigation hung completely on testimony from journalists, with journalists turned into witnesses ... a scary notion."

Have you really thought through what Scooter Libby's defense is going to be like for the press? Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr., the form...

"More wicked than your average blogger"?

A squib about Al Franken's new book in the NYT Book Review: "The Truth (With Jokes)," by Al Franken, [is] a gloomier, more as...

"Baseball's the perfect sport for nerds."

That's why Washington types keep talking about it: First there was John G. Roberts Jr., talking his way to confirmation as chief justice...

Audible Althouse, #16.

Here it is! 49 minutes this time. Topics: why I don't want to talk about the indictment of Scooter Libby, the fall of Harriet Miers, Ju...

"The tragic thing is that at the exact moment when the Republican Party is staggering under the weight of its own mistakes..."

"... the Democratic Party's loudest voices are in the grip of passions that render them untrustworthy," writes David Brooks a...

Post-Miers, a long, unpredictable political game.

The post-Miers battle brews : As he picks another nominee - Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Ci...

"This is exactly the thing that journalists fear most."

I have avoided writing the Plame story. There is too much detail to it for me to analyze it and come to a fair conclusion. A man faces crimi...