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Ok, today I:

1) Submitted two short stories to a magazine

2) Received and completed the edits for The Zebra Wore Fishnets

3) Applied for a new CC and transferred my Sears balances.

4) Closed my Sears account

5) Requested a lower interest rate on my Direct Merchants card. Lowered credit line by 1/2.

6) Made 3 new icons for the ats_hush challenge.

I guess that means I should stop procrastinating and get writing, huh?

Plame case stuff

I think ol' Scooter Libby might be looking at an(other) obstruction of justice or perjury charge.

In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of his sworn testimony.


Libby also did not disclose the June 23 conversation when he was twice interviewed by FBI agents working on the Plame leak investigation, the sources said.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald apparently learned about the June 23 conversation for the first time just days ago, after attorneys for Miller and The New York Times informed prosecutors that Miller had discovered a set of notes on the conversation.

Oops.

I guess he forgot about that particular meeting? You know what's more likely? He didn't forget at all, and instead sent Miller (I can't stop laughing) a secret code warning her to only discuss July 2003 meetings. Remember that letter he sent her full of talk of Aspens and turning colors and everything's connected. The same article indicates that Fitzgerald might start investigating other pieces of evidence to look for a pattern of this sort of forgetfulness---pattern=conspiracy (oh please oh please oh please).

I do wonder how this will affect the Meirs hearings. She's WH Counsel, so I imagine she's up to her asshole in this stuff.

Meanwhile, a recent poll indicates approximately 50% of the natioun would support Impeachment hearings (yeah, the Big I) if it came to light that Bush lied to get into Iraq. Since we all pretty much know that's exactly what happened, when do the hearings start? After Fitzgerald hands down a shitload of indictments? Sounds good to me!

Ahh the lucrative life of a writer

I got two royalty checks today, for a grand total of *trumpets please* $21.90.

Hmmm, would it be shallow of me to wonder why I'm doing this at all...

More Plame Stuff---HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

That was my reaction when I read the following from Raw Story (it'll be in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow)...

Mr. Fitzgerald's pursuit now suggests he might be investigating not a narrow case on the leaking of the agent's name, but perhaps a broader conspiracy.

Mr. Wilson's initial complaints were made privately to reporters. He went public in a July 6 op-ed in the New York Times and in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." After that, White House officials, who were attempting to discredit Mr. Wilson's claims, confirmed to some reporters that Mr. Wilson was married to a CIA official. Columnist Robert Novak published Mr. Wilson's wife's name and association with the agency in a column that suggested she had played a role in having him sent on a mission to Niger to investigate the administration's claims.

Until now, Mr. Fitzgerald appeared to be focusing on conversations between White House officials such as Mr. Libby and Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser, after Mr. Wilson wrote his op-ed. The defense by Republican operatives has been that White House officials didn't name Ms. Plame, and that any discussion of her was in response to reporters' questions about Mr. Wilson, the kind of casual banter that occurs between sources and reporters.

Mr. Rove, who has already testified three times before the grand jury and was identified by a Time magazine reporter as a source for his story on Mr. Wilson, is expected to go back to the grand jury, potentially as early as today, to clarify earlier answers.

Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group. Formed in August 2002, the group, which included Messrs. Rove and Libby, worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion. The group likely would have played a significant role in responding to Mr. Wilson's claims.

WHIG Conspiracy?! Let's look at who was a member of WHIG:

* Karl Rove
* Karen Hughes
* Mary Matalin
* James R. Wilkinson
* Nicholas E. Calio
* Condoleezza Rice
* Stephen Hadley
* I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby

Jack. Pot.

As if that wasn't enough.

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.

Target? Oh yes. A 'target' is a person as to whom the prosecutor or the grand jury has substantial evidence linking him or her to the commission of a crime and who, in the judgment of the prosecutor, is a putative defendant."