Leaky Libby Keeps On Leaking...

Libby Defends Leaking Fitzgerald Letter

"Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's indicted former chief of staff on Friday defended their decision to LEAK a letter to the news media before it was filed in federal court, and they urged the judge in the CIA leak case not to react by issuing a gag order."

Those Who Can’t Win Fairly…Cheat

"It has been the consistent policy of the attorneys on the team, including AUSA Randall Samborn, the Public Information Officer for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois who handles press matters in this case, not to disseminate documents unless they have already been publicly docketed. Consistent with that policy, on April 11, 2006, when government counsel submitted to the Court (and copied to the defense) a letter correcting a sentence in the Government’s Response to the Defendant’s Third Motion to Compel, the letter was not provided to the press because the letter had not yet been filed publicly. During the evening of April 11, Mr. Samborn was surprised by a request for comment regarding the letter from a reporter who indicated that he had a copy of the letter. Mr. Samborn himself did not have a copy of the letter, nor could he find the letter on the docket. Subsequently, some articles articles were published indicating the government filings had been distributed to the media before they were publicly documented." [more]

Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake is one smart cookie as well as an accomplished movie producer. I invite her to bring a film crew and follow the team around over the next few months for historical purposes.