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Powell: Bush Didn't Consult NSC On Iraq War

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Colin-Powell, Iraq War, Iraq WMD, Video, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Works for Me, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet that there was neve...

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Remind Me Again Why We Should Trust the Ivy League?

David Macaray | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Iraq War, Satire, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Comedy, Ivy League Graduates, Comedy News

The lesson I take away from that stunning debacle in Iraq is this: We can't trust Ivy Leaguers. Why? Because virtually every civilian mistake in Iraq can be traced back to an Ivy League graduate.

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Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Warrantless Surveillance, Questions for Cheney, Valerie Plame, In My Time, Truthsquadding Cheney, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Dick-Cheney, Cheney Memoir, Slidepollajax, Scooter Libby, Torture, Video, Politics News

Dick Cheney has spent his career not revealing himself, and in his new memoir and the ensuing PR blitz, he appears to be staying largely in character....

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Bush Claims $25M Bounty for Bin Laden: 'I Made Him What He Was'

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, $25 Million Bounty, Frances Townsend, Usama Bin Laden, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Condolezza Rice, Comedy News

I was the one who made bin Laden a household name," said the former president, "so he became worth $25M. Handing me the $25M will be 'mission accomplished'."

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Congress Circa 112

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The business of America is business." -- Calvin Coolidge The 30th president of the United States was ...

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George Bush Reveals How He Made Dick Cheney Angry

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush says Vice President Dick Cheney angrily confronted him over Bush's decision not to pardon a former ...

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The F Word: Shifting Goalposts on Terrorism

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, Extradition, Julian Assange, Valerie Plame, Northern Ireland, Grit Tv, Peter King, Wikileaks, Joe Doherty, Scooter Libby, War on Terror, Ira, Laura Flanders, Espionage Act, Grittv, Ireland, Terrorism, Politics News

We've seen so many definitions of terrorist in the last few years, it can be hard to keep them straight. So I suppose it's understandable when someone like Rep. Peter King from New York can't remember what the word means anymore.

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Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wilsons

Larry C. Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, Valerie Plame, Ambassador Joe Wilson, Cia, Valerie Plame Wilson, Niger, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Media News

Today's editorial in the Washington Post is a sad reminder that some of the journalists who enabled the ill-conceived war in Iraq and facilitated the smear of two American citizens are still alive and well in Washington, D.C.

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High Crimes And Misdemeanors

Esther Iverem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maurice Greenberg, Karl Rove, Fair Game Movie, Condoleezza Rice, Client 9, Emperor's Club VIP Escort Service, George W. Bush, Valerie Plame, Frank Bruno, Eliot Spitzer, Scooter Libby, Entertainment News

Two trips to the theater this week reinforced to me why movies are important. Just as they have the power to delude us or lull us into fantasy, they ...

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The Bush Biography as Damage Control

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crisis Management, Damage Control, Decision Points, George W. Bush, Scooter Libby, Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

Bush's best option was to use this autobiography to certify who we already knew him to be. Of course, this wouldn't have worked amidst the vapors of Hope and Change. But in today's political climate, it certainly does.

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George Bush's Deception Points

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Decision Points, George W. Bush, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Books News

George Bush calls the controversy that followed the publication of my op-ed "What I Didn't Find in Africa" a "massive distraction." But nowhere does he acknowledge that the "distraction" was self-invented.

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Secrets

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whistleblowers, Fair Game, Secrecy, Wiretapping, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Aclu, Scooter Libby, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Government secrecy is increasingly the norm. At the same time, government surveillance is pervasive, reversing the proper relationship between a democratic government and its citizens.

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Movie Review: Fair Game

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard, Karl Rove, Polly Holliday, George W. Bush, Valerie Plame, Sean Penn, Joseph Wilson, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Doug Liman, Robert Novak, Dick Cheney, Niger, New York Times, Yellowcake, Naomi Watts, Judith Miller, Fair Game Movie Review, Scooter Libby, Entertainment News

Doug Liman's Fair Game is both a compelling and an infuriating film, for a couple of reasons. For starters, it's true - and yet the victims of this s...

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One Blagojevich Too Many

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conrad Black, Robert Blagojevich, Patrick Fitzgerald, Chicago, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Corruption, Scooter Libby, Blagojevich Corruption, Chicago News

It's time for the feds to cut Robert Blagojevich loose. Let the man get back to Tennessee and reclaim what remains of his old life.

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Bush's White House Ethics Lawyer Criticizes Obama Administration's Ethics. Are You F**king Kidding!?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

It's unsurprisingly hypocritical for Richard Painter, who was in the thick of some of Bush era political chicanery in Rove's West Wing, to attack Obama and use his administration as the poster-child for partisan opportunism.

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Courage and Consequence: Less Memoir Than Hoax

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Courage and Consequence Karl Rove, Karl Rove, Valerie Plame Wilson, Karl Rove Courage and Consequence, Courage and Consequence, Book Reviews, Joseph C. Wilson IV, Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, Books News

Wasting his opportunity to tell the truth, Karl Rove offers absolutely nothing new in his book, and his selective use of facts and quotes is a transparent effort to continue his long campaign to confuse people.

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Leaked: Sneak Previews of Upcoming Valerie Plame/CIA Hollywood Film!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, Fair Game, Valerie Plame Wilson, CIA Leak Case, Scooter Libby, Doug Liman, Joe Wilson, Politics News

Like everyone who covered the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case and the Scooter Libby trial, I am anxiously awaiting the pending release of the Hollywood treatment, Fair Game.

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Cheney Told FBI He Had No Idea Who Leaked Plame Identity

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI in 2004 he had no idea who leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bu...

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Excerpts from Dick Cheney's Upcoming Book

Beth Armogida | Posted 05.25.2011

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I was hatched on a cold, Nebraska day, January 30, 1941. It was the first of two fateful events for our country that year. The second took place in December.

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Fox News "Can't Get a Straight Answer" from White House

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

The hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.

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Obama Having Beer Blasts at the White House

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 05.25.2011

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If this works, look for Obama to schedule Octoberfests to mediate a truce between Candy and Tori Spelling.

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Cheney "Got In The President's Face" On Libby Pardon: "He Just Wouldn't Give It Up"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In next week's cover story, TIME magazine delves deep into the relationship between former President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney -- in particu...

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Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 05.25.2011

You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

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Cast Couture: Politicos Who Persevere In Crutches, Casts, And Slings (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke her elbow outside the White House on June 18th, her injury put her in good company: Supreme Court Justic...

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Cheney Discussed Inquiries Into Plame Leak, Obama Administration Trying To Keep Details Secret

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney talked with top White House officials about how to respond to reporters' inquiries into who leaked the i...

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