The guest list at tonight's State Dinner included two members of the judiciary:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Virginia Thomas
and
Laurence H. Silberman, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Rosalie Silberman
More on Siblerman below the jump.
Silberman is "a senior circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He was a member the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. The intelligence court, created in 1978, is charged with overseeing sensitive law enforcement surveillance by the U.S. government.
"Silberman has served as undersecretary of Labor, deputy U.S. attorney general and ambassador to Yugoslavia. From 1981 to 1985, he was part of an advisory committee on disarmament and a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board. Silberman was appointed to the bench by President Reagan in 1985."
[....]
On February 6, 2004, President George W. Bush named Judge Laurence Hirsh Silberman (Larry) as co-chairman to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Silberman has been identified as "a long-time, right-wing political activist closely tied to the neo-conservative network that led the pro-war propaganda campaign."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Laurence_Silberman
Could this be an early sign of Bush's pick for the Supreme Court?
Also, consipciously absent from the guest list was none other than Karl Rove. Andy Card was invited.
Signals?