It’s a good week to be a teenage girl in DC. Sex In The City’s Chris Noth was hanging out downtown, and Jordan Catalano Jared Leto was, like, totally in Dupont, or something.

Stevie Wonder was also seen, but he didn’t see you, and neither did his security guard. These and more of the hoi-polloi that we lovingly call “famous for DC,” after the jump.

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• Stevie Wonder was at Etete on 9th St. last night [7/5] having dinner with a couple of people while his driver dozed in a big black SUV out front.
• Saw Chris Noth eating a late breakfast at Old Ebbitt [7/1]. Little scruffy, looked a little hung over. Lingered long enough looking at him to confirm it really was him to get the “yes it’s me leave me alone” look. With an appropriate hottie across the booth.
• Just [7/1] saw Mr. Big, Chris Noth , and his girlfriend walking on 11th and F street. He was sporting a major beard and they looked lost.
• Spotted Nicollette Sheridan in Georgetown [7/5]. She was trying on Converses at Barney’s Co-op. Had on no bra and Bolton was not in sight. She looked very svelte (I shudder to think of Eva Longoria in person), sweet, and slightly British.
• If CNN Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre is still married (and my girlfriend observed he was wearing a wedding ring), his wife should know that he and two friends spent tonight [6/30] at Capitol Lounge
  drinking with what appeared to be three young female coworkers. After
  flirting with one for most of the night (and fondling her “assets” following the last round of drinks), Mr. McIntyre and his young friend left together.
  
• At this morning’s 4th of July parade in the Palisades neighborhood (northwest of Georgetown ), local resident Ambassador Joe Wilson was out feeling festive and driving a float. He was at the wheel of his green Jaguar convertible (made famous in that family portrait for Vanity Fair), part of a two car entry from his church. The Jag was festooned with the assortment of kids, flags and bunting you’d expect on the 4th. Ms. Plame was no where to be found, but then again, she is a super spy and a master of disguise.
• Saw Jared Leto with his grubby-looking band-mates at the Cosi on the north side of Dupont Circle yesterday [7/2]. Guy was wearing silver garden clogs (those ugly rubber things with the holes in them) and black tapered jeans. Totally killed his prettiness. Then the crazy question mark suit guy, Matthew Lesko, walked by and people started to approach him but not Leto. Very weird.
• I saw Matthew Lesko in his legendary suit with the questions marks on Friday evening [6/30] on a moped in Dupont circle.
• [same tipster as prior item] Saturday evening [7/1], at a party in Glover Park, I saw the infamous Colin Finnerty of Duke Lacrosse. There were other Duke “laxers” there but he was the only convicted one.
• I saw Evan Marriott , aka “Joe Millionaire” at Clyde’s in Chinatown on Monday, July 3. He wore two giant rings on each hand, which I found odd, as he is supposed to be a construction worker. For some reason, he made a reference to his “member” at one point, miming that it was, “this big.” Seemed to be a classy individual - and by that I mean not classy at all.
• I saw Jim Graham at “Go Mama Go!” on 14th Street [7/2]. He was at the register asking Noi Chudnoff [owner] to support his re-election. She gave him a hard time for the stadium deal going through.

The LA Times reports that Scooter Libby was epically obsessed with Joseph Wilson. Monitored his every media appearance. Encouraged the White House to "mount an aggressive public campaign against him." And, in a particularly chilling instance of malicious fixation, "dictated the format for internal memos [regarding Wilson], including that paragraphs be indented."

Okay, so that last bit isn't exactly Fatal Attraction material, but you work with what you have. And, really, if Libby was, as Mary Matalin suggests, "the most methodical, detail-oriented and comprehensive worker of anybody [she] ever worked with in [her] life," a man who left "no stone unturned," wouldn't he have known all those little details about Valerie Plame that he has reportedly testified he didn't know, like her covert status in the CIA? On the other hand, Matalin is married to James Carville, so maybe when she describes someone as "methodical, detail-oriented, and comprehensive," she just means she can understand Libby when he speaks. — GREG BEATO

Bush Critic Became Target of Libby, Former Aides Say [LA Times]

So either Libby's a moron or he's a Straussian genius of recondite literary sleuthing. Where else have the "aspens turned" before?
Using to the latest in forensic science -- Amazon's "Search Inside This Book" function -- WonkCentral has cracked the Da Scooter Code. Look no further. The winks, the nudges, the war-ravaged pillow talk: It's all in here.

This is an excerpt from a wondrously titled book, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, by Edward Abbey. Redlined for your eyebrow-raising enjoyment:

And this is from another fiction with the nice Khmer Rougey name Year Zero, by Jeff Long:

Backcover description of this apocalyptic potboiler reads:

In Jerusalem, an American archaeologist working on Project Year Zero -- the search for the historical Jesus -- crosses the line between science and theft when he helps plunder an old Roman landfill beneath the crucifixion grounds known as Golgotha. Nathan Lee Swift's crime will have devastating consequences. When an ancient relic is opened on the black market, a two-thousand-year-old plague is unleashed--and the dying begins.

As the pestilence threatens to wipe out humanity, he finds a chance for redemption--by finding the cure. Skirting the edges of civilization, Nathan Lee sets out to find his younger daughter and travels to Los Alamos, where a desperate tactic has been adopted: the use of human lab rats cloned from Project Year Zero remains. Now Nathan Lee will come face-to-face with one special cloned human who may hold the key to salvation--in more ways than one. Patient Zero claims to remember who he is...

[Wait for it... --ed]

And his name is Jesus Christ.

Prison seems very unfair. A better punishment would be the Nobel Prize. I mean, "Cheyenne Mountain" -- come the **** on. Give it up, Pinter. --MICHAEL WEISS

Year Zero, page 378 [Amazon]
The Fool's Progress, page 364 [Amazon]

While Scooter Libby is the odds-on favorite in Vegas, Rove hasn't quite left the roulette table yet. What about conspiracy on his end, and what about those 4 1/2 grueling hours under Fitzgerald's lamp on Friday? Tom Maguire at Just One Minute blogged yesterday:

Quickly - Rove is in trouble. He testified for too long to be simply clearing up a few loose ends. On the other hand, Department of Justice guidelines discourage prosecutors from bringing in witnesses they plan to indict without warning them first. Hence, I am handicapping the probability of a Rove indictment as about 50%, or a shade higher.

But Dana Milbank at WaPo spotted Rove "rais[ing] his eyebrows and smil[ing]" as he exited the courthouse with attorney Robert Luskin. (The dancing pink condom troupe outside wasn't that funny.) 50% seems a touch much, unless doughboy managed to Blackberry his 7-figure jail memoir contract with Putnam on the way to the Jaguar. --MICHAEL WEISS

Rove on the Bubble, Libby in Trouble [Just One Minute]
A Day of Questioning, More Questioning and...No Questions [WaPo]

The Raw Feed and AScribe are both reporting that Judy's getting the first of what are sure to be many accolades that prove freedom equals jail time.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who was jailed four months for refusing to reveal the source who disclosed the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame, will speak to participants of the 2005 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference at 8:15 a.m. Oct. 18 in Las Vegas.

Miller, who also will receive a First Amendment Award, will then join a panel discussion titled "The Reporter's Privilege Under Siege." Joining Miller on the panel is Associated Press reporter Josef Hebert, Patricia Hurtado of Newsday, and Bruce Sanford of Baker and Hostetler law firm.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Unless she's subpoenaed again.

Times reporter in leak probe to be given award next Tuesday [Raw Feed]
Judith Miller to Speak at Society of Professional Journalists Convention and National Journalism Conference [AScribe]

Today, HuffPo reveals the content of Karl Rove's off-the-record talk at gathering in Aspen, Colorado. Among other bombshells dropped by the President's right-hand man: "On Iraq: There has been a big difference in the region. Iraq will transform the Middle East..." Whoa, there, buddy. Try not to blow my mind all at once. Oh, and: "We have not been good at explaining the success in Iraq. Polls go up and down and don't mean anything..." You can understand why he went off the record. This is kind of loose, off-message talk that brought down Nixon.

Actually, not all the quotes are verbal Lunesta. We like this one: "Joe Wilson and I attend the same church but Joe goes to the wacky mass..." Ha-ha. . . Those are the masses where they talk about not killing and stuff. Also: "The only mistake we made with Katrina was not overriding the local government..." Right -- putting Mike Brown in charge of more stuff. That would have been great. And as for this: "Cindy Sheehan is a clown," well, it's nice to see some conservatives drop that whole pretense about respecting her grief. As an encore, Rove will follow her around the country, making farting noises whenever she sits down.

Rove Off The Record On Katrina: The Only Mistake We Made Was Not Overriding The Local Government... [HuffPo]

• $286b transportation bill, which funds a record 6,371 pet projects, marks a "significant shift from Bush's once-uncompromising stand on earmarks." [WP, NYT, USAT]
• NARAL's anti-Roberts advertisement sparks backlash; Annenberg study concludes "the ad is false" and "uses the classic tactic of guilt by association." [NYT]
• 9/11 Commission was notified of military intelligence about the hijackers; Weldon says the panel's "refusal to investigate. . . is evocative of the worst tendencies in the federal government that the commission worked to expose." [NYT]
• Roberts advised O'Connor to be evasive at her confirmation hearings, suggesting he will duck questions about his opinions on specific cases. [WP]
• Specter supports administration's position on Roberts' memos. [NYT, WSJ]
• Protesters set to join Sheehan; Rice, Rumself plan to visit ranch today. [USAT]

• Roberts was critical of "new right" movement in the 1980s. [WT]
• Still unclear: who sent Joe Wilson packing to Niger? [WP]
• States are standing up for their Air National Guard bases. [NYT]
• Pirro officially launches campaign in New York senate race: "I'm Republican red on fiscal policy with conservative beliefs on making tax cuts permanent, but I've got broad blue stripes on social issues that don't change based on the office I run for." [WP, NYT]
• Pirro must increase name recognition. [NYT]
• Republicans are more likely to go for professional degrees, argues White House deputy director of public liaison. [WP]
• Several Republican governors are attempting to loosen organized labor's grip on public employees. [WSJ]

• The Washington Post's Walter Pincus told the grand jury that a third administration official --not Rove or Libby-- volunteered information about Wilson and Plame in July 2003. [NYT]
• House passes CAFTA by 2 votes. [WSJ, LAT, WP, NYT]
• Democrats incensed that White House is withholding Roberts' tax returns. [WP, LAT]
• Senate Judiciary Committee submits questionnaire to Roberts regarding his political activities, memberships, and his role on the presidential transition team. [NYT]
• Parties bicker about ground rules for battle over Roberts. [WP]
• Memos show Roberts was consistently conservative while working for the Reagan administration. [NYT]
• Military commander says withdrawal of troops from Iraq could begin in the spring. [WP, USAT]

• Schumer "is emerging as the Democratic point man in the battle over" Roberts and has 80 questions for the nominee. [NYT]
• Schumer, Leahy call on Roberts to clarify his position on Roe v. Wade. [WT]
• EPA delays report on fuel economy loopholes because timing was "inopportune" for the White House. [NYT]
• Panel headed by Samuel Berger and Brent Scowcroft conclude the administration was unprepared for postwar in Iraq. [WP]
• Three veterans of the war in Iraq are running for Congress as Democrats. [USAT]
• Ad spending on Supreme Court fight was overestimated. [USAT]
• GOP senators move ahead to shield gun-makers from civil suits. [USAT]
• Congress prepares to block construction of a 12-story office building near the Capitol. [WSJ]
• House, Senate green-light $286.4b highway bill. [WSJ, NYT]
• Energy bill likely to boost nuclear-power industry. [WSJ]
• Bush wants immigration legislation this fall. [WT]
• Pataki declines re-election bid, considers presidential campaign; cable news networks did not carry his speech. [WP, NYT]

Yes, Fourth Estate, public interest blah blah, Mark Felt, yeah, yeah, sanctity of pledge to whistleblowers, good, fine. But the real reason to hail this noble journalistic tradition is that in the hands of gimlet-eyed purveyors of righteous scorn like Jason Vest, it can yields quotes like this, about Joe Wilson:

"In principle, what was done to [Valerie Plame] was **** ty, and someone should pay, but the way [Wilson] always goes on about how it's the end of the world for her and national security while saying she's a real-life Jennifer Garner Alias character is just too damn much," says one. Similarly, prominent liberals have choked on Wilson's self-indulgence: At the Nation Institute's annual fundraising dinner last year, some found any inspirational qualities Wilson had to offer swamped by the tsunami-like wave of his continuous ego trip. "It wasn't just that he was sheets to the wind when he gave his speech, it was the sheer self-righteousness of it—it was like listening to a preppy version of Fidel Castro," recalls a noted liberal activist who was in the audience that night. "His speech was something like 'The Top 10 Reasons to Get Rid of Bush,' and after 45 minutes that included lowest-common-denominator stuff like 'kids going to school hungry'—hello, Joe Wilson's now got the weight of Head Start on his shoulders?—he was only up to number five. I mean, look, I sympathize, but it was like he was looking for a cross."

Nice work, Jason. Drinks on us, in the usual Rosslyn parking garage.
--HOLLY MARTINS
No Heroes in l'Affaire Plame [Village Voice]