Libby trial cast of characters

Look to Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute, a.k.a. Minute Man if you look down the blogroll on the left, (gee, maybe my blogroll ought to be on the right) for the latest and most comprehensive news and commentary on the trial of Scooter Libby.  Today the Minute Man has an entertaining who's who:

Nick Kristof - Mr. Kristof may create new embarrassment for the Times by admitting that, well, yes, Joe and Val had let him in on their little State Secret back in May.  This would call into question the thoroughness of the Fitzgerald investigation and enhance the probability that Libby really was reminded about Plame by some lying reporter.

Kristof's "denial" is weak and easily parsed:

I know Mrs. Wilson, but I knew nothing about her CIA career and hadn't realized she's "a hell of a shot with an AK-47,'' as a classmates at the CIA training "farm,'' Jim Marcinkowski, recalls.

Too specific - he doesn't need to know her full career or her facility with automatic weapons to know whether she was with the CIA in 2003.

My pick for most entertaining witness - Andrea Mitchell, who was just awful with Don Imus and may be awful here.  But I am sort of braced for disappointment all around - I doubt we will see a Perry Mason moment in this trial.

Actually, I'm inclined to think chances are pretty good for that Perry Mason moment.  We shall see, now, won't we?