Robert Novak Dies at 78

Robert Novak, columnist, journalist and political commentator, has died at age 78 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.Bob Novak's career spanned several decades and several administrations. "Mrs. Novak said...

The Plame affair: A quartet of betrayals

"Shed no tears for Valerie Plame. It's easy to tell by the radiant smile on her face when she's out in public that, despite the designation "fair game" that Karl Rove slapped on her in a conversation with Chris Matthews, she's not a bitter woman....

Plame: I Worked as a 'Covert Officer'

"One meme going around on the right is that Valerie Plame Wilson wasn't a covert agent, that she was a paper shuffler, that revealing her identity wasn't a big deal. Putting aside for the moment that people in the...

White House Didn't Investigate Plame Leak

"An interesting turn in the Valerie Plame case. Congressional testimony shows there was no White House investigation of the leak."Editor & Publisher:Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the...

House Committee to Investigate CIA Leak

"Republicans are probably learning to hate Henry Waxman in a big hurry."House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:Chairman Henry A. Waxman announced a hearing on whether White House officials followed...

What does 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' Mean?

"I have mixed feelings about the Scooter Libby verdict. First, I'm glad that someone in the Bush administration has finally been held accountable for something. On the other hand, the person being held accountable...

Libby Claims to be Fall Guy for Rove

"It's like a scene from a 1930s film noir -- Edward G. Robinson as I. Lewis Libby. "I was set up, a fall guy, see? And I fell, brother, I fell hard. Well, Scooter Libby's not going to be anybody's patsy, see?...

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Senators: Cheney Should Be Probed in Leak (AP)

"AP - Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday."

Time: Rove's Lawyer Told of Conversation - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON - Months before Karl Rove corrected his statements in the Valerie Plame investigation, his lawyer was told that the president's top political adviser might have disclosed Plame's CIA status to a Time magazine reporter.

Karl Rove Indictment Rumors Spread

From Josh at TPM:The line between gossip and intelligence is too-often thin, as we've seen the past few years. With that caution in mind, Washington buzz today focused on reports of a three-hour grand jury...

Miller 'sorry' about those WMD Stories

She said: "I am obviously deeply chagrined that I ever write anything that turns out to be incorrect. I'm deeply sorry that the stories were wrong."

What's Under those Pajamas?

Recently launched Pajamas Media, I mean Open Source Media, I mean Pajama media has an interesting set of advisors. My personal favorite is Michael Ledeen. Ledeen is in a bit of hot water these days but he's used to it. According to Justin Raimondo:Michael Ledeen...set up...

Len Downie, you've lost your gonads.

What did Len Downie know, and when did he know it? And more important, why didn't he do anything about it when he knew? On Oct. 24, if not earlier, the Washington Post editor learned that his star reporter Bob...

Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role

In the aftermath of Libby's recent five-count indictment, this curious sequence raises a question of motives that hangs over the investigation: Why would an experienced lawyer and government official such as...

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