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As expected, Mark Geragos is in CA trying to keep Brent Wilkes out of jail. And perhaps to subpoena a bunch of corrupt Congressmen. Laurie Levenson Makes a joke about Geragos being in trial or on TV or both. Talks about loading up your pleadings--"they're more likely to get it right." You can comment on public records, so put stuff in your pleadings so you can refer back to it. Discussion of cameras

Things I'm going to get in trouble for saying publicly at Duke:That 80% of what is out in the blogosphere is crap. Hodding Carter had said half was. But I wasn't thinking about anyone in this corner of the blogosphere.That we bloggers were parasites on the legal teams of the mainstream media, who pay lawyers a lot of money to make sure things like the Libby grand jury recording gets released

I'm about to take off for this conference. The conference organizers have assured me there will be wifi, so I'll likely liveblog the more interesting panels (gosh, it seems so long since I've liveblogged Judge Walton; I wonder if I'll remember how). But otherwise posting may be spotty until Monday. Then again, maybe not.

Larry Craig's not gonna go, he says. At least not yet. That's not that big a surprise--he had been threatening to un-resign since early in September. Though his decisions to resign and then un-resign correlate curiously with his receipt of a subpoena in the Brent Wilkes trial. August 13: Subpoenas issued (to House members) August 27:

In what might be the best testament to the wisdom of mounting primary challenges, Jane Harman has turned into a bulldog debunking this Administration's lies to drum up support for expanded surveillance. On Olbermann yesterday, she revealed that the terror threat the Administration used to scare up support for the FISA amendment came from a source deemed to be unreliable. Well the chatter was up all summer at the level of pre-9/11

The UAW is about to become one of the country's biggest purchasers of health care. Under the agreement, responsibility for the retiree health plan willshift to a Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association managed by theunion. Details about how the VEBA will be funded have not beendisclosed. But it is expected to involve a one-time payment of as muchas $35 billion by GM, providing the union with money to invest and useto pay for

Via ThinkProgress, USA Today reports that the cheat sheet for Bush's speech got placed on the UN website today. Apparently, a marked-up draft of the president's speech popped up onthe U.N.'s website as President Bush delivered his remarks this morningbefore the General Assembly, USA TODAY's David Jackson reports. Thedraft included phonetic spellings of some names and countries, and thecellphone numbers for Bush speechwriters. Press secretary Dana Perino downplayed the incident, and saidphonetic spellings

Like many of us, Grassley argues that if you bring an issue that has widespread support among the electorate up for a vote often enough, you will eventually convince intransigent Republicans to vote for it. Grassley said if he were the Democrats, he would send the SCHIPexpansion to a vote every three months, along with campaignadvertisements accusing Republicans of abandoning children.

Reading through the Kyl-Lieberman amendment (hat tip Laura Rozen), you'd think that the Ryan-Crocker dog and pony show was designed to justify war on Iran. And you might be right. The amendment cites four Petraeus statements about Iranian influence in Iraq and four Crocker statements. And intersperses those with cherry-picked citations to create the illusion that Iran is the only outside force causing trouble in Iran.