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Who's the CML Champ, Cheney or Gonzales?

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elliot Richardson, Council on Foreign Relations, Politically-Motivated Firings, Bobby Kennedy, Senate Judiciary Committee, Janet Reno, Halliburton, Valerie Plame, FBI Report, Dick Cheney, Perjury, John Ashcroft, Liz Cheney, u.s. Attorneys, Fox News, George H. W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Nobody listens to Alberto Gonzales in large part because, putting it charitably, he was not merely an unprincipled attorney general but an uninspired one. Of course, we also tune him out because we can't be sure he's telling the truth.

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A Curious Lack of Curiosity

Tony Blankley | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Valerie Plame, Cia, Ahmed Wali Karzai CIA, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Politics News
Tony Blankley

The Times published on the front page the name of a purported CIA-paid asset, Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president. This may be the most egregious compromise of a CIA operative in our history.

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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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Cheney: A Tortured Soul

Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Libby, Cheney, Valerie Plame, Warrantless Wiretapping, Bush Administration, National Security, Spiro Agnew, Wiretap, Guantanamo, Constitution, Vice President Cheney, Politics News
Lance Simmens

Mr. Vice-President, you and your President had eight full years to chart a direction for this nation. That direction was soundly rejected by the voters in the most recent national election.

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Stupidity Is Your Pre-Existing Condition

Erik Sean Nelson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Joe Wilson, Universal Health Care, Valerie Plame, Ambassador Joe Wilson, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Rep. Joe Wilson, Healthcare, Politics News
Erik Sean Nelson

I think the right to stay alive is as important than the right to free speech, because you can't say many words when you die at age 20 from a pre-existing condition.

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Why Obama Should Have Been Lying

James Heffernan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Congressman Joe Wilson, Lying, Health Care Reform Bill, President Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Valerie Plame, Ambassador Joe Wilson, Rob Miller, Politics News
James Heffernan

Handicappers who rate this episode a win for Obama overlook the fact that what the president said should have been false. If your parents are illegal, says the bill, we don't care how sick you get, or even if you die.

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Jason Linkins

Joe Wilsons vs. The Presidents

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ambassador-Joe-Wilson, People Named Joe Wilson, George W. Bush, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson, Rep. Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Politics News

One of the more interesting aspects of last night's presidential address was that here we had President Barack Obama being called a liar by a man name...

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FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lobbyists, Roy Blunt, Ohio, State Secrets, Sibel Edmonds, Dan Burton, Fbi, Valerie Plame, Blackmail, Tom Lantos, Bribery, Armenian Genocide, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Whistleblowers, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Marc Grossman, Stephen Solarz, Jean Schmidt, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Brad Friedman

The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.

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CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Blackwater, Department of Justice, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...

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Formerly-'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Details Congressional Blackmail, Bribery, Espionage, Corruption in Remarkable Videotaped Deposition

Brad Friedman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, House of Representatives, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson, Roy Blunt, State Secrets, Dan Burton, Sibel Edmonds, Fbi, Blackmail, Valerie Plame, Justice Department, Armenian Genocide, State Department, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Whistleblowers, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Marc Grossman, Stephen Solarz, Nuclear Proliferation, Jean Schmidt, Politics News
Brad Friedman

Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly.

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This Democrat Is Disappointed With His President and His Party

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida Recount, Bill Clinton, Illegal Torture, President Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Joe Wilson, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, CIA Torture, Valerie Plame, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.

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Robert Novak and the Hypocrisy of Many Media People

Dave Astor | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Prince of Darkness, Hypocrisy, Valerie Plame, Cnn, Cia, Robert Novak, Media News
Dave Astor

Robert Novak liked to think of himself as a tough journalist -- "The Prince of Darkness" and all that. But like a lot of "tough" journalists, he wasn'...

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Robert D. Novak Is in the Book

Scott Shrake | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Mike Wallace, Andrea Mitchell, Andy Rooney, Walter Cronkite, Crossfire, Washington DC, Valerie Plame, Robert Novak, Twitter, Facebook, Media News
Scott Shrake

Of course, Robert Novak was listed in the phone book. Or is it an "of course"? Let's break it down.

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Nobody Out-Novaked Novak

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Richard Armitage, Fair Game, Cia, Crossfire, Valerie Plame, Cancer, Journalism, Robert Novak, Evans-Novak, Media News
Richard Laermer

Robert Novak was disliked by many -- liberals, mostly -- but he was a soldier, veteran, and a remarkable, unceasing journalist.

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Robert Novak's Final Words on Plame Case? "The Hell With You!"

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Valerie Plame, Plame Case, CIA Leak Case, Robert Novak, Robert Novak Dies, Novak Plame, Robert Novak Dead, Media News
Greg Mitchell

One of Novak's final interviews shows that near the end, he had reversed his partial feelings of regret about the Plame case and, angered by liberal critics, went back into attack mode.

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

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, Scott Mcclellan, Tony Snow, George W. Bush, David Gregory, Ari Fleischer, Major Garrett, Valerie Plame, Dana Perino, Presidtn Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Niger, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Yellow Cake Uranium, Fox News, Hurricane Katrina, Robert Gibbs, Scooter Libby, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

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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Bill Keller: "Insatiable Desire For Scoops" Fueled Press Failure In Run-Up To Iraq War

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Judy Miller, New York Times, Valerie Plame, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Time Magazine, Bill Keller, Judith Miller, Media News

In the latest installment of TIME's 10 Questions, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller was asked by a reader in Portland, OR what he thought of...

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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

Read More: Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame, President Obama, Dick Cheney, Crew, CIA Leak, Plame Leak, Cheney Plame, Obama Defending Cheney, Joseph Wilson, Politics News

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

AP | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Valerie Plame, Plame, Cia, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Politics News

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

Read More: CIA Leak, Valerie Plame Leak, Valerie Plame, Cheney FBI Interview, Scooter Libby, Fbi, Dick Cheney, Politics News

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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Couple Arrested For Spilling CIA Secrets; Husband Was Vice-President of U.S.

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Valerie Plame, Andy Borowitz, Cia, Espionage, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

The couple was taken into custody after CIA analysts pieced together a patchwork quilt of evidence against him that one agency source called "devastating."

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Obama: Plame Lawsuit Should Not Be Reconsidered By Supreme Court

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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CREW learned today that the Obama administration is opposing our request that the Supreme Court reconsider the dismissal of the lawsuit, Wilson v. Lib...

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paranoid, 9'11 Attacks, Cia, Leon Panetta, Justice Department Memo, Congressional Record, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Gas Mask, Dick Cheney, " Al Qaeda, Misleading Congress, George H.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Slam Dunk, Unnerved, "The Dark Side, Lying, Colin Powell, Overcompensated, Tom Ricks, Jeffrey Record, Biological Survival Suit, Valerie Plame, John Kuriakou, Bob Graham, Lawrence Wilkerson, Saddam Hussein, Jane Mayer, Air War College, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Waterboarding, ABC News, Michael Scheuer, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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Democrites: Nancy Pelosi and Torture

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Patrick Leahy, Joseph McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi, Financial Crisis, Waterboarding, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

There is not a day that you wake up, turn on the news and don't hear about the Democrats backtracking, engaging in hypocrisy and appeasing the Republicans, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh.

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Dick Cheney: A Life Pattern of Sabotaging the Security of the United States

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enemies, Valerie Plame, Plastic Guns, Torture, Nra, Detainee Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Cheney's argument that he is just trying to protect America does not wash. He has a scurrilous life pattern of providing aid-and-comfort to enemies of the United States. Here are 4 examples.

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