Bloomberg reported earlier this week that that our old friend Fleischer may play an interesting role in the Plame Game scandal. Think Progress added important details about the Fleischer angle, including the fact that Fleischer was among the White House officials aboard Air Force One on a trip to Africa, where he might have had […]
Yesterday, I noted that RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman was poised to speak before the NAACP and acknowledge that the Republican Party’s desire to benefit politically from racial polarization was “wrong.” I suggested this was a good start, but the GOP still has a long way to go. To help prove my point, Rush Limbaugh responded […]
Way back in January 2004, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), as ranking member of the House Government Reform Committee, asked the General Accounting Office to investigate whether the White House followed appropriate “administrative requirements to safeguard classified information” following the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. Specifically, Waxman relied on Executive Order 12958. There are a host […]
Remember all those iron-clad rumors from Novak, Drudge, and others about William Rehnquist’s imminent retirement? They were all wrong. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist emphatically denied yesterday that he intends to step down from the Supreme Court in the near future, as he sought to halt a spiral of speculation about his possible retirement. In […]
I usually don’t link to Paul Krugman’s columns — it’s just too easy, they’re all worth reading — but today’s is particularly insightful. I’d strongly recommend taking a look. What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we’re not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed […]
For the better part of two years, we’ve known a few things with some confidence about the Plame Game scandal. White House sources told Bob Novak that Joseph Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. Newsday quoted Novak in July 2003 saying, “I didn’t dig it out. It was given to me. They thought […]
Before getting into today’s news, I’d like to take a moment to apologize for the technical difficulties the site has been experiencing lately. I’m aware of the sporadic outages and breakdowns, particularly this week, and I appreciate readers’ patience in dealing with the problems. I’m pleased to report that the site changed servers last night […]
The general rule on scandals in Washington is that the accused can survive politically so long as his or her own party stays together. With this in mind, I’m wondering which Republicans, if any, will break ranks and condemn Karl Rove, perhaps even calling for his resignation. Technically, I suppose Jim Holt is first. “I […]
New Jersey’s Frank Lautenberg (D) got the ball rolling with this earlier in the week, but I really believe going after Karl Rove’s security clearance is a wise and reasonable strategy. Based on what we know, there’s no reason Rove should have access to classified information. Yesterday, Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) and every Dem on […]
The good news is the federal budget deficit will only be a third of a trillion dollars this year, the third highest in American history. It’s “good” because it was projected to be much higher. The bad news is the Bush gang looks at the improved budget and believes their policies have worked and everything’s […]