Here we go, the jury for the dog and pony show of the century is seated:

“WASHINGTON ‚Äî A jury that includes four critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies was seated Monday to try former White House aide “Scooter” Libby on charges of lying about what he told reporters concerning the wife of a prominent war opponent.

The jury of nine women and three men was seated after a nearly hour long court session that was as silent as a professional chess match. Prosecutors and defense attorneys consulted in whispers, then handed papers to the clerk to exercise their 20 unexplained strikes of potential jurors.

The only sound was the clerk reading the number of each juror eliminated and the replacement juror’s number.

Six potential jurors who had criticized war policy or the Bush administration were struck, as was one woman who said she had voted for President Bush.

Although it was not announced which side struck which jurors, Libby’s attorneys, Theodore Wells and William Jeffress, had tried to exclude strong opponents of Bush policies.

The critics who were seated had said they could put those views aside. Drawn from a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 9-to-1, the jury pool had included quite a few who said they could not put their opposition aside. They had been sent home earlier by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton.

A former aide to Bush and chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby is charged with five felony counts ‚Äî obstructing an investigation into the leaking of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity in 2003 and lying to the FBI and a grand jury about three conversations with reporters about her.

Plame’s name and employer were disclosed in a newspaper column, attributed to two senior administration figures. The column by Robert Novak was published shortly after Plame’s husband, ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused Bush of saying Iraq was trying to buy uranium for nuclear weapons long after the administration knew the story was untrue.”

Already the media - as well as the moonbat so-called experts - are telling us that this trial will be about the Iraq War, WMD, etc, when in fact is that none of that is on the slate.

In fact it’s all about Fitzgerald trying to make a poltical statement, but also about him trying to save his career after spending twenty million taxpayer dollars on a farce and coming up with nothing to charge anyone with on the original theme of the investigation. In short the critics write up is a hell of lot more interesting than the movie. Face it, after Armitage there is no story.

J-Pod at National Review puts it well:

“A bunch of e-mailers have echoed this theme about my original item on Nick Lemann’s faulty recounting of the events leading up to Scooter Libby’s indictment: “The New Yorker lede has another mistake, and it’s a biggie. It says Wilson was dispatched “to find proof that the country had shipped yellowcake uranium to Iraq” and that he “came up empty-handed”. But actually, Bush’s assertion‚Äîwhich Wilson was dispatched to investigate‚Äîwas that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger, and Wilson actually found evidence corroborating this. No, Iraq did not seem to have success in getting the uranium‚Äîbut as Bush said, Iraq was actively seeking uranium, which could only have been used in a nuclear weapons program.”

Me: In my original item, I was citing only incontrovertible facts no one would disagree with. The information that Wilson lied about his Niger finding comes from the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. I’ve cited it, and I believe it, but Wilson denies it, and I didn’t want to get into a whole rigamarole about the SSCI’s report. My point stands: The very fact that Nick Lemann and the New Yorker can’t get the elementary details of the Wilson-Libby case right is evidence that the case exists due entirely to prosecutorial mania.”

The primary storehouse of all things Plame, Tom McGuire notes the same problem in this story by the Ny Times which again tries to recreate the story that wasn’t there and the timeline that never existed.

Which brings us to the point of what the trial most likely will reveal. That is how the MSM created the Plame Game out of thin air.