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Bush On Cheney: 'I Don't See Him -- Much'

The Huffington Post | Lisa_Miller | Posted 04.25.2013 | Politics

A lot has changed in the four years since former President George W. Bush left the White House -- including his relationship with his vice president, ...

GOP Governor Restores Scooter Libby's Voting Rights

AP | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

RICHMOND, Va. — Former vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is among more than 1,000 felons whose voting rights were restored in t...

Another Explanation for Powell's Endorsement of President Obama

Scott Lilly | Posted 01.01.2013 | Politics
Scott Lilly

When Colin Powell or other military leaders look at the Romney campaign and find that more than a third of the national security advisors come from a single conservative think tank, maybe they fear a disastrous replay of the past decade.

BOTH SIDES: Huffington/Clarke Debate Obama's "Foreign" Policy & a Right to Bear AR-15s

HuffPost Radio | Posted 07.29.2012 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgBeyond Romney's hoof-in-mouth moment in London, Arianna and Torie Clarke clash over policies abroad , guns after Aurora, career vs. kids, and rape jokes.

Dan Froomkin

Squelching Secrets: Obama's Prosecutors Are Pursuing The Wrong Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- One of Patrick J. Fitzgerald's last cases as one of the nation's most prominent U.S. attorneys may turn out to be a misfire. John Kir...

Clemens Is Big Winner on America's Got Perjurers

Steven Clifford | Posted 08.19.2012 | Comedy
Steven Clifford

Roger Clemens' triumphal performance on America's Got Perjurers should end doubts about judicial bias on NBC's top rated show.

Dan Froomkin

Powell: Bush Didn't Consult NSC On Iraq War

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.10.2012 | Politics

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

Remind Me Again Why We Should Trust the Ivy League?

David Macaray | Posted 06.24.2012 | Comedy
David Macaray

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.

Dan Froomkin

Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics

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....

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

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.09.2011 | Comedy
Paul Abrams

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'."

Congress Circa 112

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
James Campion

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

George Bush Reveals How He Made Dick Cheney Angry

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

The F Word: Shifting Goalposts on Terrorism

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Laura Flanders

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.

Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wilsons

Larry C. Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Larry C. Johnson

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.

High Crimes And Misdemeanors

Esther Iverem | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Esther Iverem

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 ...

The Bush Biography as Damage Control

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Eric Dezenhall

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.

George Bush's Deception Points

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Joseph C. Wilson

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.

Secrets

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jameel Jaffer

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.

Movie Review: Fair Game

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

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...

One Blagojevich Too Many

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Matt Farmer

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.

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

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Andy Ostroy

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.

Courage and Consequence: Less Memoir Than Hoax

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Joseph C. Wilson

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.

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Greg Mitchell

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.

Cheney Told FBI He Had No Idea Who Leaked Plame Identity

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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...

Excerpts from Dick Cheney's Upcoming Book

Beth Armogida | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Beth Armogida

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.