Valerie “Plame” Wilson worked for the CIA for exactly “20 years, 7 days,” with “six years, one month and 29 days of overseas service,” according to the CIA via the Congressional Record. MORE »

Valerie Plame is testifying before congress right now, as the Democrats try to salvage some scandal from Patrick Fitzgerald’s now-concluded crusade of justice. MORE »

It’s hard to fathom Cheney taking a fall for Bush, but we’re hearing (obviously false) rumors that Cheney will step down as early as next week, if or when Bush returns from South America. MORE »

How’d that “Merry Fitzmas” work out, anyway? Oh, not so good? Oh well! Iran totally had it coming. MORE »

We’ll take any opportunity to use this TIME photo again, which shows Cheney and his lesser henchmen at the funeral of Don Corleone. MORE »

Today’s Robert Novak column, summarized: MORE »

How did one jerkoff with a goofy nickname kill an American Institution? Well, waiting until it had been thoroughly debased didn’t hurt. And he had help: Tim Russert, Judy Miller, and a whole ragtag gang of media whores successfully defanged the first amendment with him. The New York Times today quotes about a dozen media experts and journalism professors saying variations on “the Libby trial is over — begun the clone wars have,” then trashing the journos who got us into this mess: MORE »

No, it’s true, he said something noncommittal about it! MORE »

Ah, David Gergen: Man of Many Presidential Administrations, Consummate Washington Insider, Respected Nonpartisan Elder Statesman … and all this time, an actual retard. Here, the former senior adviser to every administration since Harding talks about the Scooter Libby verdict:

“This is an administration that has been mostly free of scandal over the last six years and now they have the taint that they cannot erase,” he said.

Mostly free of scandal? Jesus Christ, it’s the most corrupt, incompetent kleptocracy in American History. The election itself was an international scandal. How about Cheney’s secret “Energy task force,” Jack Abramoff, Halliburton’s no-bid contracts, Chalabi, Cheney hunting humans, Cheney’s unmarried pregnant lesbian daughter, the invasion of Iraq, Mission Accomplished, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Katrina, FEMA, Nigerian uranium, Armstrong Williams, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman, Jeff Gannon, Dubai Ports, blocking the 9/11 Commission, anthrax, WMDs … nope, no scandals there. MORE »

Do you enjoy winning things? Specifically things you can wear? Then head over to Al Kamen’s “In the Loop” column ASAP: he’s giving away t-shirts! MORE »

The more we learn about the Libby jury, the more we hope we’re never tried by a jury of his peers. From the post-it notes asking “what are the charges again?” to their stupid Valentine’s Day shirts (the one lady with enough sense to avoid that awkward mess was kicked off the jury), it’s been apparent for weeks that Scooter Libby’s fate would be decided by a white-collar DC Apple Dumpling Gang.

Trying to convince us of the jury’s intelligence, Eric Lipton at the Times instead leaves us more confident than before of their idiocy. Relevant quotes and comments, after the jump.

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