Guide to the Wednesday (Feb 21st) Libby Trial Live-blog

This is an index of links to the Firedoglake Libby Trial Liveblogging. I am trying to make it as easy as possible to go read the details of the trial as recorded by Marcy Wheeler [Emptywheel of The Next Hurrah.] Do not refresh any more than necessary, as Firedoglake's server is being hit very frequently. That's why it is so slow to load or sometimes comes back reporting "Unable to Connect."

As before the links are in time sequence with the oldest at the bottom and the newest at the top. The numbered links are the actual live-blogged trial reports. The others are discussion.

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To see all my posts indexing the Liveblog of the Libby trial from Firedoglake, click on the Label "Liveblog" (below.)

• What's it all about, Alfie?
  by Jane Hamsher.
  This is Wednesday's Politics.com video with Jane and Marcy as they discuss what the trial has been all about, where it might go after, and kick back until the jury comes in. [Added Feb 22, 12:19 PM]


• Fitzgerald: "There Is a Cloud Over the Vice President"
  By Jason Leopold at Truthout.
  [This article restates what Fitzgerald said about the perjury/obstruction of justice charges against Libby to place it into perspective. Libby's lies and obstruction of Fitzgerald's investigation have prevented the investigation from getting into the underlying crime - the outing of Plame at the orders of Cheney and perhaps Bush. This trial is an effort to go deeper, which "Scooter" Libby has prevented. Editor.]


• Hey! Guess who snuck into a courtroom!
  by Marcy. Discussion.


• From Huffington Post - "Missing the Forest for the Trees."
  by Jeralyn Merritt.
• To the Jury - "The Waiting Game"
  by Christie Hardin Smith.
• 1. Jury Instructions and Free Form Liveblog
  by Marcy [Emptywheel]
• Discussion of Prosecution closing - "Wilson's wife wasn't a person but an argument."
  by Scarecrow.

This trial offers a lot of hints at the many crimes committed by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and others.

It also clearly lays out how our mainstream media has failed us. If you want an extremely clear example of the problem in our media, go read today's column by Glenn Greenwald in Salon. Newsweek's Richard Wolffe describes what a fantastic job the media is doing, and how misunderstood they are by the Bloggers. Glenn then takes his claims and shows the words published by Wolffe himself that demonstrate his lies or psychotic failure to understand the reality of his own failed work.