We've falling a bit behind on tracking what the revelations from the Scooter Libby trial say about the priorities of the Bush administration in the summer of 2003, but National Review's John Podhoretz has done it for us. He notes that the defence wanted witnesses to testify as to the volume of information that Libby was dealing with every day, to indicate that he would be too distracted to remember who he told what and when, and the judge consented to a reading into the record of one day's morning security briefing --
June 14, 2003 ... Libby was presented with info concerning:
"Bomb diffused...explosions...E African extremist network...Info on possible AQ attack in US...conncern about specific vulnerability to terrorist attack...Proposed ME plan, Israeli military action...Country's security affecting AQ...International org's position concerning country's nuke program...Iraq's porous borders present security threat... Potential suicide attacks against US forces in IRaq ... Potential terrorist attacks against Americans in Karbala by unspecified means
But of course this is precisely the period when he was concerned not with any of these activities, but with spinning to protect the infamous 16 words about uranium in the State of the Union address.
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