…is, of course, investigative reporter Murray Waas, who’ll be “editing and assembling” an INSTANT BOOK of the transcripts of the trial, according to a press release from Sterling Publishing. MORE »

When we said Scooter’d get 24 months earlier, how could we be so sure? Because, well, we asked a lawyer. And he responded with a billion words explaining, in great detail, precisely what will happen to Mr. Scooter Libby. Here’s the conclusion:

The Judge will likely grant Scooter’s request to remain out for self-surrender, which usually means 6-10 weeks of freedom, but it’s a hell of a lot better than being taken into custody at sentencing and getting to the prison by way of a half dozen local jails along the way over a few weeks. Expect Scooter to also plea at sentencing that he’s got a drug or alchohol abuse history, allowing him to ask that he be ordered into the Residential Drug Abuse Program (often called the 500 Hour Program or RDAP) which will scrap off a few months of his sentence (6 to 12) and ensure that a few months more (usually 6) are spent in a halfway house rather than a prison. He also gets 54 days of good time credit for every 12 months served, he’ll be out in a little more than a year.

The full explanation is after the jump. Though it’s all moot if Bush makes like his dad and pardons Scooter’s drunk ass.

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Would you like to make money at home by using the life of a man you don’t even know as fodder for a cruel wager? Sure, we all would! MORE »

…of one charge. That would be the false Statement to the FBI about his chat with Matt Cooper. Totally, 100% innocent. WE KNEW IT ALL ALONG, THIS ENTIRE TRIAL HAS BEEN A FARCE. MORE »

The mean old judge kicked one of the Libby jurors out of the trial this morning, because the Evil Juror somehow let her Camp X-Ray sensory deprivation full-head mask slip off for a moment and was immediately bombarded by Scooter news.

Because the jury has been deliberating for a whole two-and-a-half days, everybody decided to not bring in an alternate juror — there are two alternates, just wasting away their lives — and proceed with the 11, because they’re just making this shit up as they go along. The question is, Who got kicked off the team? We’ve got the info, after the jump.

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That’s right, it’s a detailed diagram of the entire Plamegate conspiracy lovingly printed on a cheap white sleeveless men’s shirt. Order some for your friends! What did the President wear and where did he get it! MORE »

* Democratic Presidential candidates traipse across the country calling on each other to denounce things, people. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* No one’s partying the night away in Chatta-vegas over President Bush’s tax-credit health insurance plan. [WP, NYT]
* Prince Harry will play soldier for a while in Iraq before going back to a life of leisure he neither earned nor deserves! [AP]
* Libby Trial’s focus on “the semantics of lying” totally screwing up chances for an Iran war. [WSJ]
* So, apparently DHS operates 325 “immigrant detention centers.” They are also, apparently, shitty places to be detained. [NYT]
* Loose coalition of “dudes on the couch” sues HHS and FDA for saying mean things about weed. [NYT]

* Loveless House debate on Iraq will nonetheless be “full-throated.” [WP, NYT]
* Mitt Romney has everything you could want in a candidate, regardless of what it is you want. [WP, NYT]
* Duke Cunningham banged two Hawaiian hookers. Brent Wilkes paid them $1100. [WP, NYT]
* Online ad spending for the Presidential campaigns to total $80 million. Try not to cry if Obama doesn’t buy a banner on your dating blog. [WSJ]
* Libby trial gives country blue balls, Dick won’t testify. [NYT]
* Everyone on the Metro is either fiddling with a blackberry or a detonation device. [USAT]
* Snow has closed Georgetown University today. All of Douglass Feith’s “Plausible Deniability: 101″ students are directed to his op-ed. [WP]

Just in case you accidentally had some remaining interest in the Scooter Libby trial, the defense has decided to ensure that it stops here: Neither Scooter nor Dick Cheney will be testifying. MORE »

* Mitt Romney and John McCain are raising more money from conservative donors than the guy no one’s heard of, and the gay one. [WP]
* House opposes war in 100 words or less. [WP, NYT]
* President Bush ignores anyway, obv. [LAT]
* Libby trial meme of the day: Bob Woodward likes talking dirty with Richard Armitage. [WP, NYT]
* Shillest of the “right wing shills” make John Edwards’ campaign blogger cry, leave. [WP]
* The Basketball Diaries, by George Tenet. [NYT]
* Majority of Americans want troops, Bush home by 2008. [USAT]

Walter Pincus revealed today at the Scooter Libby trial that Mr. Ari Fleischer, the slimiest former administration official of all, leaked Pincus the Valerie Plame story, not Scooter. MORE »