THE DAILY BLADE: Scooter Libby Scorecard
With all the journalists testifying about how and when they learned Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA agent and anti-war diplomat Joe Wilson’s wife in the perjury and obstruction trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., The Stiletto thought that this handy dandy chart would help keep the story straight:
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Libby Told Me |
Libby Did Not Tell Me |
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Matt Cooper |
Walter Pincus (Washington Post): |
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Judith Miller (formerly with The New York Times) |
Glenn Kessler (Washington Post): |
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Robert Novak (Chicago Sun-Times): Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told me | |
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David Sanger (The New York Times): Topic never came up | |
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Tim Russert ("Meet The Press"): Read it in Novak’s column | |
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Evan Thomas (Newsweek): | |
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Bob Woodward (Washington Post): Armitage told me |
If remembering who said what to whom and when between mid-June and mid-July in 2003 is the crux of this case, then Libby ain’t doing half bad – especially for a man who worked from 6:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. and sat in on a seemingly endless series of daily briefings and meetings about the Iraq war, terrorist threats, the progress of nuclear programs in Iran and Pakistan and assessments of the nation's defenses against biological attack,
according to testimony from Cheney's current national security adviser, John Hannah.Any juror who’s had to sit through meetings and conference calls at work while thinking about his own unfinished projects and fretting about how long he will have to stay after hours to make up for the time wasted will sympathize with Libby. The Stiletto can barely keep her eyes open during the one-hour conference calls she is expected to attend every Thursday between 2-3 p.m., especially as one of the remote participants has a very flat, droning voice that induces near-coma within a minute or two. Though she takes notes on what other people have talked about, if you ask her what this particular participant said – even five minutes after the call ends – she couldn’t tell you under oath or under pain of death.
Libby’s team is so confident that that
the prosecution has not made its case, that it reversed course and will not call the defendant or Cheney to the stand.London Restaurant: Emaciated Models Eat Free Bumpkin, an eatery in London’s trendy Notting Hill that boasts an A-list clientele, is offering size zero models an invitation to pig out on their fish pies, lamb burgers, king prawns and scallops - gratis, Reuters reports. The free meal offer - good during London Fashion Week, a preview of spring fashions that began on Sunday - is available to mannequins with a BMI of less than 18 who produce a modeling card that confirms they wear size zero. BMI is a ratio of weight to height; a 5-foot-8 inch model must weigh at least 120 pounds to have a BMI of 18.
The Stiletto supports the effort to get zaftig models on the runway ("Milan Demands Meatier Models," third item, The Daily Blade, December 20, 2006). The average runway model has gone from a size 6 in the early 1990s to a size 2 now, according to The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan, and Bumpkin’s heart is certainly in the right place. But if the restaurant is serious, the manager better post a matron in the loo to make sure that the models don’t down the free food only to upchuck it 10 minutes later.
Good News For Homer Simpson
A half-hour nap after lunch at least three times a week may "significantly" decrease death from heart disease, according to a study of more than 23,000 Greek men and women ages 20 to 86 published Monday in The Archives of Internal Medicine. After controlling for coronary risk factors like smoking, body mass index, physical activity and diet, the researchers found that people who regularly took a siesta had a 37 percent lower rate of heart disease-related death than those who never napped. The effect was even greater in working men. The study’s lead researcher said the magnitude of the beneficial effect of napping is "the same … as taking an aspirin or exercising every day."
Valentine’s Day Bonus: The Stiletto’s Advice On Avoiding Toxic Relationships
Crazy in love is not just an expression, reports The Wall Street Journal. A study using magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of people viewing photos of lovers who had spurned them found that the dopamine system in the brain – associated with pleasure and addiction – was stimulated, along with brain regions associated with risk taking, controlling anger, obsessive compulsive behavior and physical pain.
Clearly such studies disprove Alfred Lord Tennyson’s observation, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." So to avoid hooking up with the wrong person and then being hooked up to an MRI machine in studies like this one, just follow these two simple rules for romance:
† If you have a choice between love and money, always choose love.
† If you have a choice between love and honor, always choose honor.
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February 26, 2007
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In his prosecution of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald contended that Vice President Dick Cheney’s former Chief of Staff was actively involved in a smear campaign against anti-war diplomat Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame and that he lied about what he said to whom during the early summer of 2003, thus obstructing the investigation to determine who “outed” Plame as a CIA agent by leaking her identity to the media. Libby’s lawyers countered that he was too busy with pressing national security matters to ...
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