I know that Scooter outed Valerie Plame!(Or, Spank me Harder!)

This is what happens when you substitute belief for facts and add a dash of certitude:

I'm not asking you to believe anything in particular, but to back up what you say you believe...

You assert a coordinated effort to out Plame as pushback on Joe...

You conflate discussions within government with those between government officials and members of the press...If you believe every syllable by Grenier, Grossman, Schmall, Harlow and Martin, you're no closer to establishing a effort to leak outside of the admin...You simply deduce "5 government officials talking = 5 government officials coordinating an effort to leak"...Is there one sentence that you can point to where any of these clowns allege this? or anyone else alleges this?

You use phrases like "effort by multiple officials w/i the OVP and various Federal Agencies to disseminate talking points about Joe Wilson." Great coffee shop banter, but what do you have? All of the above testified they were responding to direct requests from OVP for information on Wilson...and there is no testimony that they disseminated anything to anybody else...

If you want to claim that Cheney, Rove, Libby, and Fleischer coordinated, fine...but you're still way short on proof by even the most liberal of standards...

One government official (Ari) testified that Libby told him during lunch, and told him to keep his trap shut. of course you know that was a wink, wink, nod moment, 'cause Scooter knew Ari would blab...

So the plan works and Ari testifies that he told Dickerson and Gregory (they say he didn't) and that he didn't tell Pincus (he says Ari did)...

And the other proactive step? Libby meeting with Miller, whose notes and memory were so convincing that Libby isn't charged with any statements refuted by her...Probably multiple other sources, Valerie "Flame", WINPAC, and Joe's phone number had a little to do with that prosecutorial discretion...(I don't expect you to understand the significance of any of this, BTW)...

And here we are...the smoking guns...Rove (leaving on vacation) and Libby (taking wife and 2 kids on birthday trip aboard AF2 to see the dedication of the USS Ronald Reagan), passing on multiple ops to leak to Novak, Pincus, Russert, etc, waiting for the phone to ring from Matt Cooper and Robert Novak, in hopes that either might ask about Val...

Meanwhile, back in the real world: This is a joke! Summarizing the summaries: This morning the defense signalled a belief that the prosecution would attempt to exceed the boundaries of appropriate rebuttal, and from the often garbled summaries we are reading he appears to. Will the defense be able to use these missteps to get further jury instructions and perhaps even a sur-rebuttal? Maybe.

And this, a personal favorite: I'm pulling my info from second-hand transcripts, and it appears perhaps Walton is going to use the 1.5 hours for jury instructions. I did find this interesting, however...

In the last five minutes he (Fitzgerald) provided work for the appeals courts (should Libby be convicted) for a year or so...