Shorter Reggie: I Will Remember Your Interest in Public Service the Next Time Someone Really Needs It
On Those Letters
My mother is in town, so I'll be visiting rather than writing. I'll start catching up to my blogging on Saturday. But I did want to make an initial comment on the letters written in favor of leniency for Scooter. Sidney Blumenthal has a superb column at Salon on the letters in general:
One after another, the letter writers declare that Libby's "character"is "inconsistent" with the jury's verdict.
June 9, 2003: The President Gets Involved
On June 8, 2003, George Stephanopolous and Condi Rice had the following exchange:
S: But let me stop you right there, because many in the United States goverment knew before then that this...
R: George, somebody, somebody down may have known. But I will tell you that when this issue was raised with the intelligence community--because we actually do go through the process of asking the intelligence community, Can you say this?
The Neverending Saga of Lurita Doan
Lurita Doan's lawyer, Michael Nardotti, has responded to the OSC report condemning Doan's politicization of the GSA. It's one of those reports that read like a lawyer threw a bunch of stuff at the wall in the hopes that some of it will stick: he blames Henry Waxman for tainting OSC's witnesses, he shifts the focus away from Doan's description of employees as inferior toward one claiming bias, and he claims
