Cat Fight
The Libby perjury/obstruction trial heats up. The president’s counselor Dan Bartlett and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove have each been subpoenaed. Guess who’s nearly as odious?
Before they testify, if they do, the trial is likely to host Ari Fleischer early next week.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald took a gamble three years ago that [...]
Circling The Wagons
The Bush Administration, via its chief water-carrier, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is lawyering up—not in the usual manner, but through a series of quiet firings and “interim” appointments of federal prosecutors. An obscure provision of the Patriot Act has permitted this back-door installation of White House loyalists, bypassing congressional approval:
The newly appointed U.S. [...]
