Jeff Lomonaco

GUILTY ON FOUR OF FIVE. Libby has apparently been found guilty of four of five counts, including the obstruction of justice charge. I will have more to say about this, of course, but given the way Fitzgerald raised the stakes in his closing rebuttal, the main consequence beyond the obvious legal consequences for Libby is […]

NOT HUMANLY POSSIBLE? The court is in the midst of addressing a couple of questions the jury in the Scooter Libby trial submitted on Friday. One has to do with how the jury should understand part of the obstruction of justice charge against Libby — and the main implication of that question (which had to […]

HIGH ANXIETY There was a bit of high anxiety at the courthouse today in the Scooter Libby trial. At the end of the day yesterday the jury sent the judge a note with a question, and the judge put off until this morning discussing it with the parties before responding to the jury. Nobody knew […]

WAPO GOOD, BAD, AND FUNNY. While the White House anxiously awaits word on Scooter Libby‘s legal fate, it’s really worth checking out Dan Froomkin‘s column from yesterday at washingtonpost.com, which focuses on the Cheney angle in Fitzgerald’s closing yesterday. For a little comic relief, read the long Outlook columnby Victoria Toensing in the WaPo on […]

AWAITING THE VERDICT The Scooter Libby case has gone to the jury. While waiting for the verdict, it’s worth highlighting something pretty extraordinary from Fitzgerald‘s closing rebuttal yesterday. Fitzgerald repeatedly raised the claim that Libby obstructed the investigation into Cheney‘s role, and even seemed to suggest it might have been in coordination with Cheney. As […]

INTRIGUING NEWS If you have any interest in the Scooter Libby trial, or in the past and future of the Vice President, you’ll want to check out this piece from Murray Waas, who has consistently done the best reporting on the CIA leak case. –Jeff Lomonaco

THE LIVEBLOGGING OF THE LIBBY TRIAL. The New York Times yesterday had a pretty nice piece on something of a phenomenon out of the Libby trial — the coverage by firedoglake. Initially, a different group of bloggers covering the trial – Media Bloggers Association – seemed to get all the attention. But there can really […]

LIBBY CLOSE. Scooter Libby‘s defense has announced that they’re not calling Dick Cheney as a witness after all, and confirmed that Libby won’t be testifying. In fact, they’re going to call a few CIA briefers to testify to the important matters Libby was briefed on, enter a few documents, and rest their case. Closing arguments […]

RUSSERT HOLDS GROUND. The prosecution should finish its principal case today in the Scooter Libby trial with the conclusion of Tim Russert‘s cross-examination. So far Russert has not played to conservative fantasies and admitted to knowing about Joe Wilson‘s wife and telling Libby about it on July 10 or 11, 2003. Instead, he’s stuck to […]

ENTER WOLFOWITZ An interesting twist today in the Libby trial: We’ve known for a while that one of the actions Libby took in July 2003 that the prosecution contends shows how focused he was on shaping media coverage of the Niger uranium controversy was his transmittal, through another government official, of parts of the October […]