Exclusive BRAD BLOG Libby Trial Coverage; Congressional Hearings Announced; Scalia Hates Democracy..

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Our "Diebold key" story continues to get a crush of traffic. It's also been updated three times with additional developements as Diebold has gone scrambling -- again -- to cover their asses over the past 24. (Rather amusingly, if shamefully, we hasten to add). If you haven't seen the updates, they're at the bottom of the story here: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066

Also today, our first report from DC journalist Margie Burns who's covering the Libby/CIA Leak Case from inside the courtroom, exclusively for The BRAD BLOG! All linked below...
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LIBBY TRIAL: 'Memory Defense' Denied in Court, But Rightwing Outlets Run With It and the Rest of the Media Follow...

*** Special to The BRAD BLOG
*** by Libby/CIA Leak Trial Correspondent Margie Burns

The Libby defense team has emphasized memory lapses in the first three prosecution witnesses, government figures who placed Libby at the nexus of information about Joseph Wilson’s wife. Probing, sometimes repetitiously --- or so it seemed to me, sitting in Courtroom 16 --- for variable or incomplete memories took up much of the first two days of the Libby trial, now in its third day.

The Judge didn't buy the defense arguments, but that didhn't stop the Rightwing media from running with it. And the not-Rightwing media, of course, follow suit...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4078


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And the Hearings Begin...
Conyers and Feingold Announce Judiciary Hearings on Bush Admistration Policy in Both Senate and House...

At the turn of the new year, we dubbed 2007 "The Year of Accountability." So, let it begin.

Two announcements were released today concerning upcoming oversight and investigative hearings in Congress on Bush Administration policy. If you can imagine such a thing...

FULL STORY, ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM CONYERS & FEINGOLD:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4076

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Scalia on His 2000 Decision to Award the Presidency to George W. Bush: 'Get Over It'
Dishonorable SCOTUS Justice to American Democracy: 'Go Fuck Yourself'
RELATED: Al Gore Must Run Again...

"It's water over the deck - get over it," said the repugnant, unimpeached, democracy-hating Supreme Court Justice about his disastrous 2000 decision...drawing laughs from his audience.

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4074

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