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Cheney Told FBI He Had No Idea Who Leaked Plame Identity

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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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Excerpts from Dick Cheney's Upcoming Book

Beth Armogida | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy

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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 09.17.2009 | Politics

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 08.25.2009 | Comedy

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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 08.23.2009 | Politics

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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 08.07.2009 | Politics

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

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style

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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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Court Will Not Revive Plame Lawsuit Against Cheney, Libby, Armitage

AP | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will not revive a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against former members of the Bush admi...

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Cheney's FBI Interview Over Plame Leak To Be Reviewed By Judge

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during...

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Liz Cheney Revises History Of Father's Relationship With The CIA

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Matt Corley of ThinkProgress makes an interesting observation from Liz Cheney's appearance on yesterday's edition of This Week. Asked about whether h...

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How Tim Geithner Can Guarantee a 43% Return on Your Money This Year

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Tom Delay, Jimmy the Greek, Money, Rick Wagoner, Al Franken, Ray Paulick, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Gambling, Andrew Cuomo, Gasoline Prices, Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, Norm Coleman, Voter Turnout, Michael Steele, Internet Gambling, Kentucky, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, I Love You Man, Leon Panetta, Scooter Libby, Betfair, Intrade, Politics News

I asked one of America's foremost horse racing handicappers to take time out from the grandstand and bet on political outcomes. What's his line on Geithner?

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Madoff Bilked Right-Wing Think Tank Where Scooter Libby Works

Aram Roston | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business

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Convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff had a surprising victim in right wing circles in Washington, DC: the Hudson Institute, a think-tank closely allied with the neoconservative cause.

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Cheney: We Left Scooter "Hanging In The Wind"

Politico | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he and former President George Bush had "a fundamental difference" over pardoning Scooter Libby. "I was clearl...

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Rove: Cheney Libby Report "Overblown" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

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On the "Today" show Tuesday, Karl Rove defended Republican opposition to the stimulus and said a report in the New York Daily News that Dick Cheney wa...

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I Beg Your Pardon

Michael Sigman | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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What if Bush and company are held accountable for their grave offenses -- say, torture or the attorney general scandal?

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Are the 14 Million "Found" White House Emails the New Watergate Tapes?

Keith Thomson | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Filling in the gaps in the CIA leak case -- like why Bush administration officials exposed Valerie Plame Wilson's covert operative status -- may be as simple as entering "plame" in an email search.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

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Some post-Inauguration predictions: Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma will refuse all future cold-weather bookings. Aretha Franklin will now be known as "The Queen of Soul...and Funky Hats." Rev. Lowery will be invited to throw out the first pitch at the home openers of the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. Jacques Chirac will not be renting Cujo anytime soon. George Bush will not be on Scooter Libby's Christmas card list this year. In the Dick-Cheney-in-a-wheelchair-movie-reference-derby, "Mr. Potter" will beat out "Ernst Stavro Blofeld." The swearing in will not be the last time President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are not on the same page.

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Cheney: "I Disagree With President Bush's Decision" On Libby

Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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In an interview with his biographer Stephen Hayes, published by the Weekly Standard, former Vice President Cheney laments Bush's decision not to pardo...

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No Pardon For Scooter Libby From Bush

Newsweek | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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In a move that has keenly disappointed some of his strongest conservative allies, President Bush has decided not to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney'...

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Surge In Wagering in Favor of a Libby Pardon

Keith Thomson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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At the moment it's even-money that George Bush will pardon Scooter Libby -- or about 6 to 5, to be precise, based on wagers placed on internet bookmaking sites like Intrade.

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Wall Street Journal Ties Future Of America To Scooter Libby Pardon

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

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Once upon a time, you could count on the Wall Street Journal to make note of the collapse of the economy as a more significant "loose end," than a guy whose sentence the president has already commuted.

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Getting Ready for the Bush Pardons

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.

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My Facebook Status Updates for 2009

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Andy can't believe that shoe almost hit Rick Warren. Andy doesn't think Caroline Kennedy is qualified to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, but doesn't blame her for asking.

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