Scooter Libby

Excluding from the pardon power persons who have worked for the administration will prevent the president from covering up illegal acts -- making it less likely that officials will carry out illegal acts in the first place.

WASHINGTON — President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Che...

So much has been said and written about the outing of former CIA operative Valerie Plame -- and the cast of characters that swirled around it, from Ju...

In the wake of the passing of Tim Russert today, some will no doubt recall that he testified at the "Scooter" Libby trial -- but few, I would guess, can now remember what he said or why he was there.

I covered the Bush White House for Time and got caught up in the C.I.A.-leak case, which was a signal moment in McClellan's tenure. I feel badly for McClellan--Libby and Rove hung him out to dry.

How many times are we going to have a key Bush administration official try to wash the blood off his hands -- and add a chunk of change to his bank account -- by writing a come-clean book years after the fact instead of when it actually could have made a difference? Read More Unmasking McCain: His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really? You'd rather vote for a man who has a 25-year history of voting against a woman's right to choose? Read More WATCH: CNBC's Business Nation Goes Behind The Scenes At HuffPost

WASHINGTON — Former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation's capital following his ...

At the beginning of the battle to stop John Bolton's confirmation as US Ambassador to the United Nations, Senators Russ Feingold and Barack Obama were...

Sibel Edmonds' story, if true, involves corruption at the highest levels of government coupled with the sale of secrets vital to the security of the United States.

People in power must really like what Mr. Kristol has to say to catapult him to the nation's "paper of record" so he can spew his vitriol and contempt for democracy.

OK, here we go with Part 2 of my annual McLaughlin Awards. Last week's column covered the first half of these awards. Unfortunately (as of this writi...

The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.

President Bush granted pardons Tuesday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws, but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby...

President George W. Bush granted pardons to 29 people on Tuesday but Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was not a...

Deciding who gets pardons and who gets left twisting in the wind should be a job for a team of tough, seasoned experts.

It's over. Scooter Libby is done trying to appeal his felony conviction. He won't go to the slammer thanks to the President. Hey, he might even get a ...

AP reports former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is no longer appealing his conviction in the CIA leak case, a tacit recognition that conti...

I like Thanksgiving as a holiday; it's my favorite one after the storming of the Bastille. However, I've been having trouble feeling grateful recently.

So far there is no apparent desire for redemption driving the press to report on the treachery of senior officials. Instead, the mainstream press has compounded its complicity by giving the Bush administration yet another free pass and shifting blame.

With McClellan spilling the beans on who told him to lie and cover up the White House's responsibility for revealing Valerie Plame, it clearly was time for some folks to begin drafting their requests for presidential pardons.

It is not the responsibility of a book publisher to tell us the truth. That responsibility lies with this administration, the people that committed the offense to begin with.

How is it someone so close to the Bush administration couldn't discern truth from fiction when so many Americans saw the fabrications? Apparently, rea...

Checkbooks at the ready? After all, don't we all owe poor Al Gonzales our support in his time of need?