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Karl Rove Book Exposes Lies of the Bush White House
By David Corn - Politics DailyI doubt this was Karl Rove's intention, but with his new book, he demonstrates how the Bush White House got away with lying. Here's the back story. In September 2003, a furor erupted when the news emerged that the Justice Department had begun an investigation of the leak that outed undercover CIA case officer Valerie Plame Wilson. Several months earlier -- while her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was slamming the Bush administration for having misled the nation into the Iraq war with a phony WMD argument -- two administration sources had told conservative columnist Robert Novak ...
CIA Leak Case Ends with Federal Court Denial
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe famed CIA leak case, in which Valerie Plame's identity was allegedly revealed by top Bush Administration officials to punish her anti-war husband, Joseph Wilson, came to an end yesterday as a federal judge refused to reinstate the personal lawsuit filed by the Wilsons against Vice-President Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and other Administration officials. Judge John D. Bates ruled that Administration efforts to rebut criticism of their Iraq War policy from Wilson were within the scope of their duties as public officials."The alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson's ...
Plame Leaker Cites Actions as 'Foolish'
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyRichard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell, and the man who admitted to leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press, characterized his actions as "extraordinarily foolish." Appearing on CNN's Late Edition this past Sunday, Armitage told CNN that the leak was a careless oversight.There was no ill intent on my part, and I had never seen, ever in 43 years of having a security clearance, a covert operative's name in a memo.[E]ven Mr. Novak has said that he used the word 'operative' and misused it. No one ever said 'operative.' And I not only assumed it, as I say, I have ...
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