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
The government put I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s lackey/chief of staff, on trial, but it’s the media that has been hit with a guilty verdict. Scooter is accused of obstructing justice and telling fibs to a federal grand jury in the seemingly endless Joe Wilson–Valerie Plame affair, but what caught a wider Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Feb. 13, just minutes before 10 a.m., New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson entered Courtroom No. 16 in the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, in Washington, D.C.
There, Ms. Abramson became the latest celebrity journalist to take the stand in the perjury trial of former Vice Presidential aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. 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
Last night, NBC Nightly News reported Ari Fleischer’s testimony from the Scooter Libby trial, in which the former press guy said he had sought immunity from prosecution because he had done the very thing that Libby is accused of doing: disclosed the fact that Bush enemy Joe Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA—Fleischer said, to Read More
To observe the Washington press corps is to wonder why so many people who don’t remember what happened yesterday and can’t master basic logic are expected to analyze politics and policy. The latest developments in the Valerie Plame Wilson case—as revealed in Hubris, a new book by Michael Isikoff and David Corn—proved once more that Read More
To observe the Washington press corps is to wonder why so many people who don’t remember what happened yesterday and can’t master basic logic are expected to analyze politics and policy. The latest developments in the Valerie Plame Wilson case—as revealed in Hubris, a new book by Michael Isikoff and David Corn—proved once more that Read More
How scary must the New York Times legal department be when Salon is forced to run a second and much-expanded correction to a story they’ve already corrected and removed from their site?
The crux of the correction, regarding a piece by Debbie Nathan on Kurt Eichenwald’s internet-child-porn reporting, is an amplification of the 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
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 and Read More
