There's a new blog spat emerging. It's between left wing bloggers and Pajamas Media. I've received several e-mails today telling me that TalkLeft is in the dust-up. But, really, I'm not. I've been aware for several months that PJM excerpts or links to TalkLeft posts occasionally. And I don't mind at all.

Here's the deal: Pajamas Media, which highlights blog posts in their center space, is trying to be more non-partisan and excerpting posts of left-wing blogs, (with multiple links to the originating blog). Several of these blogs are upset and demanding PJM cease the practice immediately.

Breaking....Jason Leopold at Truthout reports Karl Rove has told Bush he will be indicted and that he will resign immediately when the charges are announced.

Rove's announcement to President Bush and Bolten comes more than a month after he alerted the new chief of staff to a meeting his attorney had with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in which Fitzgerald told Luskin that his case against Rove would soon be coming to a close and that he was leaning toward charging Rove with perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, according to sources close to the investigation.

A few weeks after he spoke with Fitzgerald, Luskin arranged for Rove to return to the grand jury for a fifth time to testify in hopes of fending off an indictment related to Rove's role in the CIA leak, sources said. That meeting was followed almost immediately by an announcement by newly-appointed White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten of changes in the responsibilities of some White House officials, including Rove, who was stripped of his policy duties and would no longer hold the title of deputy White House chief of staff.

As several commenters have noted, the transcript of the eyewitness identification procedure used by police in having the accuser ID players is here. It's a big topic, and deserves its own thread.

I just finished reading it and I believe it is even more flawed than previously reported.

The first thing that leaps out at me is police failed to tell her the suspects may or may not be in the photos. This instruction is essential. (See here (pdf), pages 41 to 43.) Research is clear that if you don't give that admonition to the eyewitness, there will be more "false hits" and the chances of a reliable ID are dramatically reduced. From Wisconsin's guidelines(pdf):

Tony Snow's first informal press gaggle this morning didn't go too well. Snow himself said, "This is just a mess."

Think Progress has more.

TPM Muckraker has the full transcript.

ABC's World Newser on the gaggle is here.

Senate Judiciary Committee Minority Leader John Conyers (D-MI) has written this letter (pdf) asking Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special counsel in the phone jamming investigation.

Conyers wrote: "A special counsel outside of the Department is needed, however, because there are possible connections between the plot and the White House, as well as potential federal electionlaw violations stemming from state Republican Party reporting of Native American tribedonations connected with Jack Abramoff, that have yet to be examined."

Here's the basics of the phone-jamming case from Conyer's press release (received by e-mail, thus no link.)

Federal agents searched the house of the resigned CIA agentKyle "Dusty" Foggo this morning:

Federal agents Friday morning raided the home of Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who stepped down this week from the No. 3 post at the CIA amid accusations of improper ties to a defense contractor named as a co-conspirator in the bribery case of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

...Foggo resigned his post at the CIA on Monday, after the FBI began investigating whether he improperly steered contracts to Brent Wilkes, a Poway defense contractor and longtime friend of Foggo's. The CIA's inspector general has been investigating Foggo for at least three months.

The home was a rental, not owned by Foggo.

Jane at Firedoglake reports that according to Hardball, the grand jury is meeting today in the Valerie Plame leaks investigation.

Will Rove be indicted? I think that comes next week. But stay glued to the news, and FDL for updates.

From Full Court Press:

On May 5, 2006, the Eleventh Circuit issued a split, 2-1 decision denying asylum to a Colombian woman who, because of her political work, had been on the receiving end of menacing phone calls, a death threat note and gunfire. Previously filibustered, formerly recess-appointed, highly controversial Bush II pick Bill Pryor authored the majority opinion over a stinging dissent by Bush I appointee Ed Carnes.

Despite the growing evidence that immigration courts have been falling down on the job, the Eleventh Circuit has never - yes, never - reversed an immigration court's refusal to grant political asylum. In Luz Marina Silva's case, Judge Carnes felt the time had come. Unfortunately for Ms. Silva, Judges Pryor and Frank Hull (a Clinton appointee who regularly joins the court's most conservative wing) thought otherwise.

I have just received the May 5 hearing transcript in the Scooter Libby case (thanks to reporter Jason Leopold for sharing it with me.) I haven't yet read it, so you can have first takes.

Update: Christy of Firedoglake weighs in here and here . Empty Wheel includes her thoughts in her post about Cheney. Tom Maguire also has a detailed analysis.

7:00 pm Thursday evening

I'm inside the movie theatre at Denver Pavillions waiting for Al Gore's new movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, to begin screening any moment now. Al Gore will be holding a Q and A session right afterwards. My seat is great, thanks to Mania TV and Special OPs Media -- a blogger press pass.

It's starting, I'll live blog the q and a session as soon as the movie's over.

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Movie over, exellent. I highly recommend it. It's a lot of Gore, he is the movie, but there are excellent graphics and he makes global warming understandable. I know less than nothing about the topic and I came away with some understanding. The use of cartoons in the movie was a great idea, even I could understand those. The scenes of Antartica and Alaska and Mount Kilminjaro were particularly powerful as were the Katrina scenes.

The feel-good story of the day...and do we ever need one.

He was serving a life sentence for a murder he did not commit and was ready to end it all. But [Christopher]Ochoa didn't follow through. And on Friday, he will have a new life awaiting him when he graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School -- the same institution that rescued him from his worst nightmare.

....Ochoa, who grew up in El Paso, hopes to one day become a prosecutor so he can control investigations. He calls American justice the best system in the world, but says corrupt investigators and prosecutors have broken it.

Ochoa was the first person exonerated by the Wisconsin Innocence Project. His confession was coerced, and someone else later confessed to the crime. DNA also proved him innocent.

Larisa at Raw Story reports that two aircraft carriers, the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Enterprise are headed to the Middle East and Western Pacific. The USS Ronald Reagan is positioned in the Gulf.

Larisa reports the U.S. could be gearing up for air strikes in Iran, possibly in June.