How Olson Got Confirmed
The Senate vote last week to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general by a razor-thin margin had everything to do with politics and little to do with the strength of the Democrats' case in...
View ArticleNew Revelations About Ted Olson:
Several individuals told federal investigators in 1998 and 1999 that one of the overseers of the Arkansas Project had recruited Theodore B. Olson, President Bush's nominee for Solicitor General, to...
View ArticlePlame Gate
Two government officials have told the FBI that conservative columnist Robert Novak was asked specifically not to publish the name of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame in his now-famous July 14...
View ArticlePlugging Leaks
President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, told the FBI in an interview last October that he circulated and discussed damaging information regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame with others in...
View ArticleAshcroft's Interest
Attorney General John Ashcroft received numerous detailed briefings last year regarding the criminal investigation of the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA agent's identity, during which he was told...
View ArticleCurveballs to Congress
CommentUpon a first reading, the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigatory report on Iraq seems certain to be a document of seminal and historical import; even in the present day, it may transcend...
View ArticleExclusive: Plame Game Over?
The special prosecutor investigating whether any Bush administration official may have violated federal law by leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak recently...
View ArticlePlame Game Redux
Two days before columnist Robert Novak named Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative, a Bush administration official told a reporter for The Washington Post that Plame's husband, former Ambassador...
View ArticleFront-Page Fronts
A federal criminal investigation into the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's name has in large part focused on the truthfulness of statements made to investigators by White House deputy chief of staff...
View ArticleAn Unlikely Story
White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not disclose that he had ever discussed CIA officer Valerie Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during Rove's first interview with the FBI,...
View ArticleThe Meeting
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has told federal investigators that he met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller on July 8, 2003, and discussed CIA...
View ArticleThe Meeting
In early August, Murray Waas reported that the meeting between Judith Miller and Lewis Libby was the whole ballgame for Miller's incarceration. Now that she's agreed to talk, read what she has to talk...
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