Fitzgerald's rebuttal has begun.

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At FDL.

He's chewing up Wells!

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1. Best Fitz quote so far

"She has a name! Her name Valerie Wilson. She had a life before Joe Wilson,
but to them she wasn’t Val Wilson, she wasn’t a person, she was an argument,
she was a fact to use against Wilson."

Wow!

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2. That quote will come in handy during the civil suit,

especially if CheneyCo and BushCo skate on this thing somehow.

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3. Remember, there are 9 women on the jury.

Fitz is freakin' brilliant.

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5. Yes, but one redneck could screw it all up

Let's hope there is unanimity in the jury.

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4. FDL won't load in my computer

Could it be that the servers are congested?

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6. Here's the Fitz Money Quote!

DX64. fax sent on June 9. Remember he said it went to the Hill. Hannah said Libby was focused on Wilson. Defense put this in through Craig Schmall.

On this page, 2-3 of long document. Paragraph 2, talks abotu report, Niger planned to send several tons of uranium to Iraq. Niger signed agreement. Now we see the third report. Remember she said he associated third report with Wilson. On 8 March 2002, obtained independently from sensitive source.

4:24

This is the Joe WIlson trip. How do we know it? Be said he came back on March. How do you know Defendant knew that? How do you know he focused so deep on the weeds that he knew this?

Introduces the exhibit where Libby had marked Wilson by this same paragraph. Says that's his handwriting. He's figured out the sensitive source is Joe Wilson.

Go back to Miller's testimony once again. She says he was discussing two streams of reporting. First was reports like that of Joe Wilson and then he said wife works at WINPAC. Here is this document, "Two streams of reporting."

BTW, I'm having no trouble refreshing FDL today. I usually do, though.

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7. And here's the obstruction clincher quote

Fitz: "One more thing that corrborates. THe VP wrote week before that wife sent him on a junket. THe VP moves to number 1 talking point. You just think it's coincidence that Cheney was writing this.

There is a cloud over the VP. He wrote those columns, he had those meetings, He sent Libby off to the meeting with Judy. Where Plame was discussed. That cloud remains because the denfendant obstructed justice. That cloud was there. That cloud is something that we just can't pretend isn't there."

Yikes! Do I see charges looming for Cheney?

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9. Translation

There is a cloud obstructing something, and that something is Dick Cheney...

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8. Here's Fitz' "Memory Schmemory" attack

"We all know, when you're angry at someone, you remember. Whether you're a chief of staff, whatever you do for a living, He was angry about Wilson. What Wilson said is that country got lied into war. One of the people he blamed was defendant. ANd VP. Don't for a second believe, that the defendant wouldn't get pissed if someone said you lied the country into a war.

If you think it's important, when you're focused on it, when you're angry about it. You know the things you forget and the things you remember. You know how to tell the difference. It's actual common sense."

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10. GO FITZ GO!!!!!