Cheney Adviser Indicted in CIA Leak Probe
Vice President Accepts I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby’s Resignation ‘With Deep Regret’

• RawStory says this is only the beginning and prosecutors are pursuing more serious charges against Rove with a possible indictment next week.
• Steve Soto thinks this is it and after 2 years, all Fitzgerald could get is Libby.
• The Smoking Gun has the indictment.
• MyDD says that David Addington, “a principal author of the White House memo justifying torture of terrorism suspects” and a man who “stands out for his devotion to secrecy in an administration noted for its confidentiality” will replace Libby as VP COS.
• The Guardian confirms that while Rove was not indicted today, he remains under investigation.

Arianna Huffington commented that Plamegate will be bigger than Watergate because of the massive loss of life (now 2,000 Americans, see Josh’s post below). Keep in mind the Iraqi total is over 26,000. Given that the Democrats have been handed this golden opportunity to launch a platform of “Together, America (or we) can do better,” they must now capatalize on the Republican implosion and corruption.

The message of this particular incident, “Plamegate” must be simple, and directly tied to the Iraq war. Joe Wilson was a critic from the INSIDE, not from the lefty blogosphere. He had contributed $1,000 to elect George W. Bush, and in 2003 wrote a piece condemning the adminsitration’s handling of how they sold the war to the American people. What needs to be on trial here is that Bush, Cheney, and Rove lied to the American people about the neccesity of war, and covered it up with this intentional smear of their critic.

If the Democrats fail to grasp this concept, and sieze this opportunity, the indictments mean nothing, and we have let Bush get away with murder, literally.

….comments?

I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.

Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003, appear to differ from Mr. Libby’s testimony to a federal grand jury that he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from journalists, the lawyers said.

So now we know Libby lied to Fitzgerald to cover Dick’s ass (couldn’t resist). Anyone else wondering what Cheney told him in his testimony?

The following headlines link to blog posts about the Times article from Oct. 16 on Judith Miller’s jailing and testimony. These posts are listed in order of popularity, with timestamps of when they were first published.

Check it out.

10. Put down the caffeine: For the next 48 hours, cleanse your body of java, aspartame, splenda, and whatever other shit you’ve been putting in your system. Your body will be producing more adrenaline during Fitzmas than it did when you were a hormone-crazed teenager, so don’t fuel the fire.
9. “Refresh” is the AntiChrist: Resist the urge to press “refresh” every TWO SECONDS. Checking into Drudge every minute won’t make any indictments come any faster..it’ll just give him hits and make Drudge’s head swell even more. Eww. I put “Drudge” and “swell” and “head” in the same sentence. I just grossed myself out.
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Admittedly, you’ve gotta be a Plamegate junky to find it funny, but if you ARE, keep reading, it’s hysterical.

The case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame is set to explode.

The New York Daily News is set to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed source interviewed by the newspaper believes a senior White House official has flipped and may be helping the prosecutor in the case, RAW STORY has learned.

The Daily News will reveal that a top source believes that based on the questioning of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his other contacts with the investigation, someone in the White House has turned.

Oh it’s so delicious.