Plame-watcher Tom Maguire analyzes the Libby team’s response to Patrick Fitzgerald’s filing last week. As you might recall, that filing led to an avalanche of stories about its revelation that President Bush authorized Libby to talk to reporters about parts of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate. A misquote in that filing also led reporters to allege that Bush and Cheney told Libby to lie to the press. Fitzgerald corrected the misquote two nights ago in a letter to the judge. Some news organizations have followed up with their own corrections. Some are too busy getting other facts wrong.
Libby’s latest filing formally objects to the misquote:
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the media