Entries by emptywheel

Scottie to Conyers: It’s a Date!!

According to Roll Call, Conyers has cordially invited Scottie McC for an HJC chat on June 20 (h/t egregious).

“I have extended an invitation to Mr. McClellan to testify before the Judiciary Committee after discussions between Committee staff and his attorneys,” Conyers said. “In his book, Mr. McClellan suggests that senior White House officials may have obstructed justice and engaged in a cover-up regarding the Valerie Plame leak.

Scottie McC’s Chronology: September 29

I showed that Scottie McC’s chronology obfuscate some important details about conversations on September 27. In this post, I’ll show what that means for his description of the events of September 29, the day when Bush told him that Rove did not leak Valerie Wilson’s identity.

Scottie McC’s Chronology: September 27

I said yesterday that Scottie McC was still protecting Bush–either deliberately or out of blind faith. One of the areas where that’s apparent is in his discussion of efforts to have both Rove and Libby exonerated in fall 2003. Scottie McC presents some significant new details about discussions of the leak within the White House just as DOJ started the CIA leak investigation. But he presents a chronology that downplays the degree to which those White House discussions were a reaction to public news that the DOJ had already started a probe.

“Trivial Policy Ideas”

Scottie McC may have written a book that confirms what we DFH bloggers have been saying for years. But make no mistake. Scottie McC is still deeply in denial about how bad–and dishonest–a President George Bush is.

Can’t Gitmo Dirty – The Penultimate Straw

I want to bring attention to something that really sank in for me yesterday morning and that a few people are starting to pick up on, but not many, and not nearly enough. First the Cheney Administration sacked the military judge that had the gall to allow even a shred of due process to the detainees, and now they have effectively sacked the military lawyers that had the temerity to seek it. This was a knowing and intentional play to deny counsel.

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