Will in the comments is making a plea for some “crazy pics” from the blogger conference. Sorry to disappoint, Will, but the “Plame-ology” panel, which I’m currently sitting in, is full of some seriously sane-looking people who have been tracking the CIA leak case on their blogs and in their small publications for a long, long time — and in a much more detailed/obsessive way than the mainstream media.

If you’re not a Plame-gate addict, this post may not mean a lot to you, but if you’ve been following this story online (as I have, on and off, for some time) you may be interested to see what some of the bylines and blog handles look like in person.

Here is Marcy Wheeler from The Next Hurrah:

Here’s Jane Hamsher from FiredogLake, sitting next to Dan Froomkin from The Washington Post (who basically admitted during this discussion that the bloggers have been kicking the MSM’s ass on this story):

Here’s Murray Waas, who is being described here (and elsewhere) as the Bob Woodward of the CIA leak story. (Note to Dick Cheney: Waas just told us that if there was a better healthcare system in this country, he wouldn’t have had to stop his no-health-benefits freelancing life and get a full time job covering Plamegate). Next to Waas is Christy Hardin Smith, also of FiredogLake:

And here’s former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose New York Times Op-Ed started the whole thing, seated next to Larry C. Johnson, formerly of the CIA: