Michael Kinsley asked a question over the weekend that I’ve long pondered: “What does it take in Washington to be so thoroughly discredited that nobody cares what you think?” Kinsley was referring to Newt Gingrich, but it’s so easily applicable to so many. Perhaps an even better example than the former Speaker is Manuel Miranda, […]
One gets the impression that Bloomberg has a source or two about the Plame Game scandal as it relates to Ari Fleischer. Last week, it was Bloomberg that reported that Patrick Fitzgerald is “reviewing testimony by former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.” Today, Bloomberg reported: On the same day the [State Department memo] was […]
There’s one paragraph in particular from Matt Cooper’s Time article that will be scrutinized and dissected from every angle. Rove never once indicated to me that [Plame] had any kind of covert status. I told the grand jury something else about my conversation with Rove. Although it’s not reflected in my notes or subsequent e-mails, […]
Almost immediately after Joseph Wilson published an op-ed for the New York Times highlighting Bush’s lies about Iraq’s non-existent nuclear program, the White House pushed back hard, attacking him in the media and targeting his wife. It led, of course, to outing an undercover CIA agent. By why go after some largely-unknown former ambassador so […]
Last week, we learned that Executive Order 12958 appears to mandate that the White House carry out an internal investigation when classified information gets leaked, as was clearly the case with the Plame Game scandal. This week, we might be hearing more about a little form called SF 312. Anyone who works for a presidential […]
Away from your computer over the weekend and wondering if you missed anything important in the Plame Game scandal? Let’s see… * Time’s Matt Cooper wrote his cover story for Time in which he explains — surprise, surprise — his two sources about Plame were Karl Rove and Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” […]