C-SPAN(1)Tonight Close Up: Hugh Sidey, Fmr. White House Reporter, TIME Magazine (7pm) Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on Lewis Libby Indictments (8pm) C-SPAN2 on Monday: Nat'l Press Club Address with Fmr. Ambassador Joe Wilson (1pm) - LIVE CQ & C-SPAN - Today's Capitol Spotlight: The charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are another staggering blow to a White … [Read more...] about C-SPAN Schedule on Plamegate

A short, personal take on the reactions to the outcome of the investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald can be found at my personal weblog Random Fate. Perhaps my photo-walk in a graveyard today was unintentionally appropriate. … [Read more...] about A short, personal take on the reactions of both wings

TMV has a very busy schedule today, miles away from his computer and nowhere near his laptop. But our co-bloggers should be posting from time to time so keep checking back. TMV (who is also sick today) will have a post later in the day. So stay tuned...and visit here again later today. See ya! … [Read more...] about Reminder: Keep Checking Back

Transcript of Special Counsel Fitzgerald's Press Conference Earlier Today Press Release issued by Fitzgerald … [Read more...] about Transcript of Fitzgerald’s Press Conference

Are we losing our edge? See my post at Julien's List. … [Read more...] about CNN: Is U.S. becoming hostile to science?

The New Republic: TNR's role in the indictment; questions for Fitzgerald; and more. by Michael Crowley, Franklin Foer, and Jason Zengerle … [Read more...] about TNR’s blog on the Libby indictment

Friday, Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. ET Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post Associate Editor … [Read more...] about Analysis & Online Chat: Kaiser on Libby Indictment, Resignation

From the DLC: BOLDING by Holly DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 28, 2005 Idea of the Week: Raising the Bar for Public Service This has been a sad week for America. Today's criminal indictments of a top White House aide, coming on the heels of the dispiriting Miers nomination, may be judged by the chattering classes of Washington as a win, loss, or tie, for one party or … [Read more...] about The DLC Weighs In

MSNBC: Rove told he won't be indicted at this time, still under investigation... CNN: CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to ask grand jurors to indict Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff. UPDATE: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is expected to release the results around noon EST. His website is here. CNN: Fitzgerald is expected to hold a … [Read more...] about “Breaking News…”

A Wisconsin cat goes out to explore and ends up in.....France! Do you suppose that her taste in cheeses will become more subtle? … [Read more...] about True Wanderlust

Rumors are rampant and speculation runs wild. (See last night's round-up of the pre-indictment scene.) Today brought more of the same (if no indictments or anything else of much substance). I won't add much here to Joe's recent posts on Plamegate, but I've done another round-up of reaction over at The Reaction, should you care to read what the brighter lights of the … [Read more...] about ROVE may be FITZGERALD’s target (and how Democrats should respond)

And so it's over. I have the last installment of my Miers Withdrawal Watch over at The Reaction. And now it's time to turn to the question of who the next nominee will be... My prediction: McConnell, Sykes, or Callahan. Maybe. … [Read more...] about Miers Withdrawal Watch — Part 5

Even as we obsess over Miers and Plamegate (and I've blogged about little else lately), Darfur continues to suffer through genocide. But does anyone care? I've got some of the latest here. This is very, very serious. We should all be paying much closer attention to what's going on in Darfur. And we should all be demanding that something be done about it. … [Read more...] about Death and despair in Darfur

Yes, how petty our preoccupations seem. Here's a post on Zimbabwe's so-called "dust people". Live8 notwithstanding, hardly anyone pays attention to Africa, let alone to Darfur, let alone to Zimbabwe. Yet Mugabe is terrorizing his people in an effort to "cleanse" his country of undesirables. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless. How many have … [Read more...] about The nightmare of Zimbabwe

Yes, Denny's got a blog. And I've got some reaction. … [Read more...] about Dennis Hastert: The Blogger of the House

Bull Moose says the score is Bill Kristol 1, George Bush 0 and gives us our Quote of the Day.The President caved into the conservative mob. He let down a lady..... In his moment of need, the President will move far rightward with his new nominee. We now know that the indictments are coming and he needs the conservative posse on his side. This is a profoundly weak President. … [Read more...] about Quote Of The Day: Bull Moose On The Harriet Miers Withdrawal

It was a natural mistake:FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said. The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles. State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people … [Read more...] about “Harry, Every Year Those Halloween Decorations Get More Lifelike…”

The New York Times reports that when the expected indictments in Plamegate come down, Vice President Dick Cheney's right-hand man Lewis "Scooter" Libby will be charged and White House political guru Karl Rove will remain under the Special Prosecutor's investigatory microscope:WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Associates of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, … [Read more...] about Libby Indictment Likely And Rove Could Come Later

Will this be the lyric? The Plame endgame and Karl Rove is the same... Informed speculation is increasing that the endgame in Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into who outed the identity of a CIA operative will come as early as today — with indictments. And reports continue to suggest that White House political maven Karl Rove is the prosecutor's … [Read more...] about CIA Prosecutor Reportedly Has Rove In Target

...interim definitions have to take the place of the more complete treatise that one would prefer. … [Read more...] about Upon occasion…