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  • Derail Scandal Train
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Rove Scandal Train is picking up momentum. Just ask Scottie McClellan, who is starting to look more and more like Ron Ziegler with every passing press briefing.
    Actually, two separate Rove trains have left the station (and, no, this isn’t going to be one of those old algebra problems they used to give us): the legal train and the political train - heading along two very separate tracks.
    But it’s now clear that the White House damage-control team has decided to try to link the two. (…)

  • Gonzales Says He Told Card About CIA Probe
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Summary:
    Attorney General and former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has admitted that he told White House chief of staff Andrew Card about the impending Justice Department investigation into the Valerie Plame leak a full 12 hours before he directed his staff to secure any materials related to the case. This introduces the very plausible scenario of Card informing Karl Rove and others ahead of time, giving them the opportunity to “prepare” for the investigation.
    White House does not (…)

  • At the GOP School for Scandal, Monica trumps Rove
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    You hear it at least once a week: The plaintive moan of a fellow American befuddled by our nation’s odd sense of priorities. It comes out this way: “I can’t believe they tried to impeach Clinton for Monica and yet this gets nothing!”
    “This” being, among other things, the WMDs, the Iraq invasion, 25,000 Iraqi civilians dead, Halliburton’s theft of American tax dollars, Bush family connections to Saudis or cartels, the plundering of the environment, armor and supplies for fighting (…)

  • Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Source Beyond Rove
    By ROGER MORRIS Former NSC staffer
    "We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
    It was September 2002, and then-National Security Advisor, now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was fastening on CNN perhaps the most memorable and frightening single link in the Bush regime’s chain of lies propagandizing the war on Iraq. Behind her carefully planted one-liner with its grim imagery was the whole larger hoax about Saddam Hussein possessing or about to (…)

  • Court nominee lets Rove hide in back pages.
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Barring disclosure that he is a closet transvestite with a penchant for setting fire to nursing homes, John Roberts appears certain to be confirmed as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. But even if he should fail, he will still have performed yeoman service for the Cheney/Bush administration.
    DAVID ROSSIE Commentary
    By agreeing to have his name put forward to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the high court, Roberts enabled the embattled Karl Rove to escape from our television (…)

  • OUTING PLAME...
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OUTING PLAME....Two years ago, when the Valerie Plame affair first surfaced, the conservative response was largely one of yawning silence. Still, the conservatives who did speak up mostly conceded that, yes, if someone in the White House exposed the identity of a CIA agent, it was a bad thing to do. And if it was done as part of a political campaign to discredit a critic, it was an especially bad thing to do.
    During the past month, however, the growing evidence that someone in the White (…)

  • No More Pardons for Traitor-gate Criminals
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No More Pardons for Traitor-gate Criminals
    Convicted Previously of National Security Crimes, Elliott Abrams Joins Rove and Libby as Latest Figures Newest Figure in Traitor-gate
    Did you know that Elliot Abrams, pardoned by the first President Bush for the Iran-Contra crimes he committed under the Reagan Administration, now works for the Bush White House? And has been implicated in the leak of Valerie Plame’s covert identity?
    I have sent a letter to President Bush asking him to say right (…)

  • Rove’s Backers Use "CounterSpy Defense" in CIA Leak Case - Video
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We speak with veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry, who writes that Karl Rove’s defenders are rebutting accusations about the White House aide’s leaking of a CIA officer’s identity by using an argument that parallels a rationale cited by leftists who defended CounterSpy after a CIA officer exposed by the magazine in 1975 was gunned down in Greece. More than two dozen Democratic senators on Monday asked Congress to investigate the White House leak of undercover CIA operative Valerie (…)

  • Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra
    By E&P Staff
    Published: July 26, 2005 5:00 PM ET
    NEW YORK Virtually giving up, at last, on getting Press Secretary Scott McClellan to comment on the Plame/CIA leak affair, reporters at today’s White House briefing concentrated on another hot issue, the Democrats’ attempt to get the White House to release more of a paper trail on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
    The White House says it will hand over more than enough documents, (…)

  • Why Lance Must Break With Bush
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Lance Must Break With Bush
    By Dave Zirin
    To all the haters that don’t think cycling is a sport, and the Tour De France ranks just below watching an apple turn brown, let’s be clear: Lance Armstrong has earned the love. The cancer-surviving cyclist ended his career with a record seventh straight Tour De France victory. Immediately the accolades rolled in, and he has earned every dollop with an athletic tenacity and compelling personal story that’s touched the lives of millions.
    But (…)