Day by day, witness by witness, exhibit by exhibit, Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the trial of Dick Cheney’s man, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, is accomplishing what no one else in Washington has been able to: He has impeached the Presidency of George W. Bush.
Of course, it’s an unofficial impeachment, but it will also, Read More
At long last, the fog of mystification generated by the Bush administration and the Washington media is lifting, so that everyone can see clearly why I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby is on trial and why his prosecution is important. Whether the jury eventually finds the former White House aide innocent or guilty of perjury, the evidence Read More
Hours after I. Lewis Libby resigned from the White House last October, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald broke the seal on an indictment charging him with five felonies.
Now, as the pre-trial jousting in Mr. Libby’s case picks up momentum, the onetime loyal West Wing confidant—Dick Cheney’s Dick Cheney—will have to choose between protecting himself Read More
Something popped out of yesterday’s Times report on the Libby-Cheney leak investigation: the name Joseph C. Wilson IV.
I thought the ambassador’s name was Joe Wilson, or as his book, The Politics of Truth, is bylined, Joseph Wilson. I was curious about who all the other Joseph C. Wilsons were and I leafed through Read More
Whatever indictments may or may not have issued from the grand jury sitting in Washington by the publication of this column, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has uncovered certain essential facts of the C.I.A. leaks affair.
Most important, his investigation has proved that the exposure of C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame Wilson, as a reprisal against Read More
In honor of Salon’s new women-only blog, The Broadsheet, where the ladies of Salon are speed-posting Rita Dove poems, meditations about Kotex advertisements, and a shocking new theory that the White House’s smear of Joseph Wilson was intended to be emasculating, the New York Observer was also thinking of getting its very own women’s Read More
Of all the evidence that has emerged so far in the C.I.A. leak case, perhaps the most troubling is the bargain struck in July 2003 between New York Times reporter Judith Miller and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
He would provide the covert smears, and she Read More
Of all the evidence that has emerged so far in the C.I.A. leak case, perhaps the most troubling is the bargain struck in July 2003 between New York Times reporter Judith Miller and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
He would provide the covert smears, and Read More
Last week, as reporter Judith Miller prepared to return to The New York Times newsroom—having gotten out of jail and supplied notes and testimony to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald—executive editor Bill Keller told the staff in a memo that her case was “not entirely over.”
Mr. Keller was right. Eight days later, on Oct. 11, Read More
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof–the first journalist to have written about former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s now-famous fact-finding trip to Niger–was originally on prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s subpoena list in 2003, but was never subpoenaed.
In a phone conversation this afternoon, Kristof said he had been on the list. He also said that Read More
