Lewis Libby Trial Coverage Central
Latest Update: March 8th, 2007:
Journalism fans breathed a sigh of relief this week, as coverage of the Libby verdict finally knocked the saga of Anna Nicole Smith’s death off the front pages.
Interactive graphic: Key players, dates in CIA leak case
Beg Pardon?: The Scooter Libby Quiz
Juror calls on Bush to pardon Libby
Pressure mounts for President Bush to pardon Libby
Pardon Libby? Left and Right Erupt in a Fight
Robert Novak hands down A Verdict on the Wilson Affair
Pat Buchanan says Libby was the Martyr of the War Party
Ann Coulter likens the trial to Shooting Elephants In A Barrel
CIA Leak Trial Prompts Scrutiny of Media
Next for the C.I.A.’s Least Secret Officer: A Quieter Life
March 6th, 2007:
Scooter Found Guilty of 4 of 5 Charges
Read MediaChannel’s coverage of it here!
The archive of Libby coverage continues below.
As Lewis “Scooter” Libby is tried for perjury and obstruction of justice in the case of the Valerie Plame leak, MediaChannel will be providing extensive daily coverage of the trial–not to mention the fact that MediaChannel co-founder Rory O’Connor will be covering the trial as part of the MediaBloggers’ credentialed set of blogging journalists.
Read Rory’s blog here
And as always, you can read the Media Bloggers Association feed and check out Fire Dog Lake’s coverage.
Also, there’s the prosecution’s web site, with links to their exhibits.
February 27th
Judge Walton boots a juror leaving only 11 to decide Scooter’s fate
FireDogLake speculates about why the defense didn’t move for a mistrial.
ABC News Wonders if Cheney is next.
February 20th
The jury will begin deliberations today!
ABC NEws’ Robert Mitz asks, What’s at Stake in the Libby Verdict?
Bloomberg News covers the prosecutor’s closing arguments.
February 15th
The defense rests–the trial will resume Tuesday for closing statements.
Sid Blumenthal in Salon: Libby’s cynical defense
MSNBC: Libby trial ends with abbreviated defense
LA Times: Judge deals Libby a setback
Washingtonian: Russert Dodges Bullet in Libby Trial
February 13th
Libby may ask his successor and former deputy to take the stand
Woodward talks leaks in the witness box
Libby Trial Resumes: Abramson Denies Miller Conversation
February 12th
Defense casts Libby as scapegoat
Novak Says Libby Didn’t Leak Agent’s Name to Him
Libby Defense Starts With A Bank Shot
February 9th
Law and Order Star (and former Senator) Fred Thompson Makes a Cameo in the Gallery
The American Thinker blgos about the Hypocrisy of Tim Russert
Libby’s Lawyers are debating whether or not to call Veep Dick Cheney, says CNN.
February 8th
Russert directly contradicted Libby’s testimony, as expected: the defense is going to have to challenge Russert’s credibility.
Howard Kurtz: Tim Russert, on The Uncomfortable Side of a Question
Also from the Washington Post, you can hear the audio of Libby’s Grand Jury testimony here and here, or read the transcripts here and here.
February 7th
Reporter Tim Russert to testify today
Cheney ’surprised’ by Libby’s grand jury testimony, says the Washington Post.
Hey, us CourtTV reporters can blog the Libby trial, too!
February 6th
Today (2/6/07) Rory continues his coverage of the trial: Libby Trial Principals Should “Stop Hurting America”
February 5th
Washington Post: Vice President’s Shadow Hangs Over Trial (H/T TalkingPointsMemo)
NPR: Bloggers Join Frenzy at Media-Saturated Libby Trial, by Thomas Pierce, calls Rory’s coverage ‘dry,’ saying some bloggers are ‘playing it straight.’
A little Libby levity from ZeFrank.
February 1st
The Libby Case: Grounds for Impeachment, says Robert Scheer over at AlterNet.
BTC News has an easy-to-understand flowchart to help you sort out the whole Plamegate affair.
CNN notes the defense doesn’t want White House Tapes played. how long before we see an inexplicable 18-minute test pattern appear on one of those videotapes?
January 31st
Tim Grieve of Salon makes the link to the ‘turning aspens’ mentioned in the letter Scooter wrote to then-jailed, now ex-reporter Judith Miller.
Libby Trial Puts Reporters’ Recall To a Severe Test, sways the Wall Street Journal about Judith Miller’s testimony.
Creative Ink on the Politics of Subpoenas
January 29th
FireDogLake peeks inside the media circus.
The New York Times’ Judith Miller set to take the stand today.
Ariana Huffington wonders why the press keeps playing along with the bush adminstration’s punting program.
David Corn sums up, “Libby Trial: Fleischer Tags Libby and Confesses Leaking”
Rory’s live coverage begins January 29th. Until then, we’ve got lots of links to other media covering the trial, and will be updating daily:
January 28th
TalkLeft gets us up to speed for today’s testimony.
Tim Russert was the first casualty of this trial.
A recap of Cathie Martin’s testimony: Administration press manipulation tactics revealed!
Karl Rove and Dan Bartlett have been subpoenaed.
Conservative blog WizBang prefers to read MediaBloggers’ coverage than the New York Times’.
January 25th
OTB: Cathie Martin and Craig Schmall testimony.
David Corn at the Nation: Libby’s memory defense.
Crooks and Liars reports that Libby is dreamy over Scientology, and even had arranged to meet Christ-like Scientology figure and part-time actor Tom Cruise, who came to him with concerns about how Germany is treating Scientologists.
The right-leaning New York Sun’s Josh Gerstein says Libby’s defense blaming Bush is an inevitable attempt to play to the left-leaning jury.
January 24th
Good thing the MediaBloggers’ work will now be included in the Associated Press wire: with the defense claim that Libby is being sacrificed to save Karl Rove, this trial just got a whole lot more interesting.
Byron York writes for the National Review Online that the defense reveals ‘a White House at war with itself.’
Outside the Beltway: Witness Grossman caught in major inconsistencies: You can read more of OTB’s Grossman coverage here.
Just One Minute: David Shuster of MSNBC is having great fun covering this trial.
January 23rd
Jury has been selected, includes former Washington Post reporter
Outside the Beltway liveblogs opening arguments for MediaBlogger, as does Creative Ink.
Byron York writes on the National Review website that Libby’s lawyers are right to suggest that the war is at the heart of the case, and not at the periphery as the prosecution maintains.
January 22nd:
Emptywheel at Firedoglake: Jury Instructions handed down
NYTimes: Libby Trial to Display Changed Reporter-Source Relations
Outside the Beltway: Voir Dire Resumes in Libby Trial
Crooks and Liars: Libby’s Memory Defense
Should Libby be watching out for ‘errant’ shotgun spray? Cheney Invites Libby to Texas Hunting Trip The Columbus Dispatch says Cheney denies the trip has anything to do with the trial.
January 19th:
Judge needs more jurors, pushes opening statements back to Tuesday (apparently, finding impartial jurors in Washington is a bit more difficult than expected).
FireDogLake’s latest dispatch: Is the Jury Selection Process Fair?
Spencer Ackerman recounts his role in the Plame scandal to the Guardian
January 18th:
AlterNet’s childhood reminiscence of “Scooter” by Eagleton schoolmate Nick Brommell
Robert Cox of the MediaBloggers Association arrives at the Prettyman courthouse.
Murray Waas rounds up the paradoxical press profiles of Libby on HuffPo.
Pachacutec at FireDogLake starts coverage and continues blogging the jury selection.
Fox News’ coverage of the Libby trial focuses more on the three-year old story of former Clinton staffer Sandy Berger, who admitted destroying national security documents in 2004 and was fined and served community service. It took exactly eleven seconds from the name “Lewis Libby” to get to “Sandy Berger” (although the chyron under “Fox & Friends” read, “THE SCOOTER LIBBY CASE VS THE SANDY BERGER CASE” from the get-go).
Here’s the clip:
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3 Responses to “Lewis Libby Trial Coverage Central”
“Fair and balanced” yea sure. The slogan works though. I’ve heard the slogan from many people and they believe it. It seems impossible to change the power of the mainstream media. Say a lie long enough it becomes a fact.
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What did Berger take??? Why was a deal cut before the investigation was completed?? Why do the media downplay this event yet salivate over the non-case Valerie Plamme-Libby non issue??? How does one news outlet like Fox drive all the other leftist cesspools nuts???
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I have been made aware that Robert Cox is planning to arrange a seat at the Libby trial for one of his bloggers - a Lance Dutson of
I have been following Mr Dutson’s blog for some time, and have come to find that most of his accusations appear to be brazenly untrue - untruths about which he has repeatedly been made aware. He has even admitted to knowing this a few times, but these admissions eventually disappear… and off he goes again…
Robert Cox informs me and others that he has never even read Dutson’s blog. I find this, if true, to be an act of extreme negligience.
If you do read Dutson’s blog, you will see that the headlines are never corroborated by fact, but rather, the links point only to more of his own accusations, or even to documents which actually CONTRADICT his accusations.
Apparently, people only read the headlines. And they believe them.
He appears to get the most gratification out of making searingly vicious personal attacks on total strangers whom he somehow perceives as being enemies.
He behaves as a web troll, and nothing else but. I find it very difficult to believe that anyone would assign a seat at the Libby trial, and its resultant journalistic credibility, to someone without ever having checked his credentials.
Web trolls should be eliminated - not elevated.
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