Libby: Leftly Leaning - Monday, February 5th

No rest for TalkLeft’s Jeralyn as she burns the weekend oil exploring Team Libby’s attempts to insert Bush into the narrative [1] and churns out a couple of posts on Cheney [2] and other potential upcoming witnesses [3]. Also, check out this parsing of Saturday briefs [4] from both legal teams over the recent admission of two Washington Post articles from 2003.

Posting at the Daily Kos, emptywheel argues the significance of changing the date on Libby’s 2003 note [5] and offers four possible scenarios [6] explaining its sensitivity.

Forget Dick Cheney! MaineWebReport explains how Russert’s testimony [7] is just as significantly tied into the wider ramifications of this trial.

Meanwhile, over at Huffington’s Eat the Press, a little heathers-esque rivalry [8] between Russert and Matthews helps illuminate this White House’s manipulation of the news cycle.

Brent Budowski, one of the original authors of the CIA Identities Law, sees the trial beginning to unravel “a long term, well planned, highly deceptive campaign” to bring the country to war and offers some predictions [9] for the trial’s future

Larry Johnson at BooMan rejoices in the document dumping process this trial has initiated and explores documents between the CIA and OVP in 2002 expressing skepticism over the Iraqi-Niger connection [10].

eRiposte from FDL offers some observation [11] and analysis [12] of documents [13] from the trial proceedings as well as an exhaustive exploration the under-reported war against Wilson [14].

Finally, a big welcome to Eric Brewer [15] and Lance Dutson [7] who will be in the courtroom this week.