Comstock's New Gig
Via scribe and TPM's Muck, I see Barbara Comstock is now taking on another legally challenged Republican, Jerry Lewis, as her client.
Barbara Comstock, an attorney with the firm Blank Rome GovernmentRelations and a former Justice Department official, will handle pressinquiries for Lewis’ legal team, the sources added.
I take that to mean Lewis is now regarded as seriously imperiled.
Rove Will Not Be Charged
The NYT announces today that Karl Rove will not be charged in the Valerie Plame case. I'm still looking for a copy of Luskin's statement, but it includes the following:
On June 12, 2006, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advisedus that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove.
[snip]
In deference to the pending case, we will not make any further publicstatements about the subject matter of the investigation.
Mark Warner's Nukes
Well, it appears to be all Warner all day today.
Someone mistook me for a bigtime blogger and I got invited to attend Mark Warner's post-talk blogger chat. I asked the first question, which went something like:
I'm going to ask the Iran…
Mark Warner's Party
There's an underlying tension here at YearlyKos, as 2008 presidential candidates try to figure out how to engage with the blogosphere. The two biggest blogosphere darlings, Gore and Feingold, probably figured they were better off marketing a…
Why Settle the Wen Ho Lee Case?
Apparently, Wen Ho Lee's civil suit charging the government abused his privacy rights is close to being settled.
Intensive settlement negotiations between former nuclear scientistWen Ho Lee and the U.S. government are delaying -- and may ultimatelyavert -- action by the Supreme Court on appeals by reporters fightingto protect their confidential sources in the case.
The Lee caseis viewed by the media as one of the most significant press-freedombattles of recent years.