Sunday, November 19, 2006

Scooter Libby Intel to go public?

Yes, but with big black Sharpie lines drawn through the good parts, of course. The judge had already ruled:
Judge Walton ruled that the substitutions and summaries of classified documents which Fitzgerald has offered the Libby defense team - instead of their using actual classified documents at trial - are inadequate for them to put on a proper defense.
But this ruling goes further:
Judge Walton will give the public a peek at the issues he has had to rule on concerning the thousands of classified document in question..
Classified docs to the public? Looks like the greymail chances just went up. I'm sensing the Libby play might never reach the stage, especially since both the NY Times and WaPo let this one slip by without much notice.

That would be too bad. Although a tiresome endeavor to most, the spectacle of all those high profile journos being hauled into court or off to jail for refusing to give up sources might have been fun to watch, not to mention getting a peek at those PDBs, even if highly redacted. And doesn't everyone want to know who really sent Wilson to Africa?

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