CNN wants to be extra sure you know why Lewis Libby is on trial.

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Libby is accused of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

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Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, is accused of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

Also, there’s still no mention of Richard Armitage in the “Key players” feature, though he does make an appearance in the “Timeline” sidebar:

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage publicly acknowledges for the first time that he was the source to first reveal Valerie Plame’s identity to columnist Robert Novak, but says he did so inadvertently.

UPDATE: This Raw Story interview with blogger Tom Maguire of Just One Minute is a nice overview of the whole Plame ordeal; about halfway through, he brings up some interesting questions concerning the State Dept, specifically Armitage and Colin Powell. The interview is well worth reading, especially since Maguire, the go-to conservative blogger on this case, typically does a poor job of getting to a point, summarizing information, reviewing material and writing clearly enough for more casual readers to follow.

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Attorney D. Jack Smith celebrated Darwin Day with the Memphis Freethought Alliance this weekend. Smith, a former state representative, discussed his role in repealing Tennessee’s anti-evolution education law in 1967.

“Freethought,” by the way, is not a generic term.

Smith is quite the character: he is promoted as the foremost multi-level marketing attorney on the planet (which provides a predictable backstory); he was a leader of the recent effort to keep the Confederate names of several parks in Memphis unchanged, and he’s also the owner of a British Lordship.

My research on Smith and the MFA led me to some more thoughts on evolution and intelligent design that I plan to share in a future post. Until then, feel free to poke the links above; some of them are mildly entertaining.

The monologue monologue continues into its third year.