BREAKING -- judge walton's opinion on libby sentence

or, code-word: "white sangria" fires back!

[updated on 06.23.07 -- CHS at firedoglake
has written quite a lawyerly summary of the walton
opinion, that covers some of the same ground
as mine below (but perhaps more lucidly), and
a lot of ground i never covered, at all. . .]

here is the full memorandum opinion
which judge reggie walton sent on to
the federal court of appeals for the
d.c. circuit (just as i predicted!) to
answer back, after lawrence s. robbins
made his first substantive filing in
the appellate courts on behalf of mr.
libby. . .

i'll have more on this later today,
but his "footnotes do the walking", again(!):



perfect!

here is a copy of the order
denying libby's request for
freedom while his appeals are
processed. . . click it!