Scootie Gets Ready For Trial

From the NY Daily News, news that Scooter Libby wants access to thousands of pages of documents that Patrick Fitzgerald obtained from the White House to help with his defense-

Libby will show that "any errors he made in his FBI interviews or grand jury testimony, months after the conversations, were the result of confusion, mistake or faulty memory rather than a willful intent to deceive," his lawyers argued.

No doubt a man with Libby's reputation at his job and attention to detail merely got confused.

And then there is this at the end of the article-

Fitzgerald, who is fighting Libby's request, said in a letter to Libby's lawyers that many e-mails from Cheney's office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy.

Oops. An accident, no doubt as well.

Josh Micah Marshall explores this issue at Talking Points Memo.