Following up -- this transcript of Andrea Mitchell being interviewed about Joe Wilson and Valerie Wilson was posted on February 12. The Libby defense team pushed to have Ms. Mitchell testify, on the basis of some rather fuzzy statements, in the Libby trial. In spite of the strenuous defense efforts, both sides seemed unsurprised, and possibly somewhat relieved, to have Mitchell excluded as a witness. Andrea Mitchell, rather a social-chat kind of journalist more than your hardnosed Frank Fontana type (Murphy Brown, kids), would have been tied up in knots on the witness stand; in fact, she probably would have been ...   more »

Looking at television's most prominent news personalities eagerly shill for the worst of the worst in administration policy, it’s hard to blame the Libby defense team for making the news media part of its defense strategy. Serves them right: when the large media outlets engage in what amounts to tacit collusion with giant military-security contractors, roll over when they should stand up to abuses of office, and go along with what they should know are bogus ploys by the powerful, they deserve to lose credibility.

So once again, the motion for release on bail pending appeal filed yesterday evening ...   more »