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If you haven’t been following FireDogLake today, you’ve missed a lot, so let me try to bring you up to speed.

Today was the day for summation at Scooter Libby’s trial: First the prosecution, then the defense, then rebuttal by Fitzgerald. During his rebuttal, shortly after 4:31, Fitzgerald said something like this (remember, this is live blogging, not a transcript):

There is a cloud over the VP. He wrote those columns, he had those meetings, He sent Libby off to the meeting with Judy. Where Plame was discussed. That cloud remains because the denfendant obstructed justice. That cloud was there. That cloud is something that we just can’t pretend isn’t there.

Then, as if to provide all the footnotes you’ll need, blogger “emptywheel” wrote a post entitled

Indicting Dick

(Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 4:35 pm)

As “emptywheel” has stated before,

Tricky Fitzgerald!! He’s been hiding Dick right in the middle of his Libby indictment.

We’ll need a few more days to hear the jury’s verdict, but the firepups are all yapping witih excitement today! And I’m trying to supress the urge to do a Snoopy dance.

Blogger “emptywheel” is the author of the formidable Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the War and Smear a Critic.

I don’t mean “formidable” in the sense of a dull, ponderous read, but rather in the sense of a gripping, fact-filled narrative. Its hot off the presses, but printed before the Libby trial. And the author’s assessment of the evidence is holding up rather well. Her book is highly recommended! She is a.k.a. Marcy Wheeler.

Bob Schacht