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Houston Chronicle
“We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society” - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
Posted 6/6/2008 8:40 AM CDT
On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller. The conclusions reached by this report were […]
Waxman: White House Blocking Release of Plame Investigation Docs
By Paul Kiel - December 3, 2007, 11:17AM
Another test for Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In a letter to Mukasey today, House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) said that the White House has prevented former Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from turning over records of his interviews during the Valeria Plame […]
20,000 vets’ brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
November 23. 2007
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At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY.
The data, provided by the Army, Navy […]
Shuster Rips Neoconservative Ajami For Comparing Scooter Libby To Fallen U.S. Soldiers
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month, neoconservative scholar Fouad Ajami compared Scooter Libby to “fallen soldiers” in Iraq. “[Libby] can’t be left behind as a casualty of a war our country had once proudly claimed as its own,” he wrote.
MSNBC’s David Shuster […]
June 17, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Scooter’s Sopranos Go to the Mattresses
By FRANK RICH
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Mr. Libby’s lawyers argued that these letters should remain locked away on the hilarious grounds that they might be “discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.” And apparently many of the correspondents assumed that their missives would remain private, just like all other documents pertaining to Mr. […]
David Broder’s Post column illuminiates the issue with a Caravaggio clarity.
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Images: (Painting) Ecce Homo by Caravaggio via castelmeteo.it; (Fitzgerald) Getty Images via cache.boston.com; (Rover) via axisoflogic.com; (Scooter) AP/ Wide World Photos via motherjones.com;
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Please find the column here.
Libby’s supporters renew call for pardon
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Let’s be philosophical for a moment…
Which of the pictured is responsible for the most deaths?
Scooter Libby, Karla Faye Tucker or–shut my mouth–W?
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Karla Faye was far from an angel, but our president had shown his love of life with his now infamous statement which Ms. Tucker did not […]
The Sunday Times
May 20, 2007
Decline and fall of the neocons
Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington
Sarah Baxter
As Tony Blair was bidding farewell to President George W Bush in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the World Bank was preparing to kick out Paul Wolfowitz as president. Allies […]
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New York Times
February 20, 2007
Trial Spotlights Cheney’s Power as an Infighter
By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush’s first term.
The […]