Blogging the Scooter Libby Trial

The folks at Firedoglake are going to be Blogging from the Scooter Libby trial. What a scoop! If you can afford to help them out with rent/food while they're camped out in DC go here. Congrats FDL!

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Guess Who Is Going To DC?

.."After several months of phone calls and e-mails for logistical assistance, tracking down just the right person for inquiries at the courthouse, and lots of leg work, and thanks to the gracious assistance of Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, we have managed to secure one of the very limited press passes for the Scooter Libby trial. (A huge thank you to Arianna for all of her assistance in this.)

Yep, that is correct: your intrepid pals at Firedoglake, with the more than able assistance of Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel of The Next Hurrah, and fabulous
author of Anatomy of Deceit, and a few other all stars who have talked with us about covering various aspects of the trial process, are headed to DC to cover as much of the trial as we can manage to see and hear.."

.."We are all very excited about this — obtaining a press pass was not easy, and we plan to make the most of it as much as we humanly can do so. Thanks to everyone for all the support on the coverage of this CIA Leak Case from the start of the investigation until now. And thanks to anyone who can chip in a bit to help us in our coverage over the next few weeks.

Just think, your contribution puts us that much closer to being eyeball to eyeball with Dick Cheney on the stand. (Or at least, sitting in the room while he and Fitz are eyeball-to-eyeball, which is just as intriguing…) The trial will not be covered live on television because federal courts do not allow cameras in the courtroom, so in order to do detailed coverage, we need to be there in person. Thanks to anyone who can help us to make that happen.."

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Give FDL some funding if you can. I mean, I don't want to be sitting "eyeball to eyeball" with (The)Dick Cheney, do you?