On Sunday I left my mom a message, thereby getting essential Mother’s Day credit, and when we talked yesterday she said excitedly that she had heard rumors that Karl Rove was about to be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak case. My mother is a stone Democrat, and I’m not, still she and I agree Read More
Valerie (Plame) (Wilson)—who can be sure which name to parenthesize?—is said to be getting $2.5 million for a memoir of her life as a CIA analyst, demonstrating that the leaking of her name is the best thing that ever happened to her career.
Much as I hope this case will take down the Read More
For
nearly two years, the Bush White House has been repeating falsehoods—to the
press and the public and perhaps to itself—about the role played by Karl Rove
in revealing the identity of C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame Wilson.
On
Sept. 29, 2003, for example, White House press secretary Scott Read More
With their renewed assault on Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, Republican operatives are again using the politics of personal destruction to advance a strategy of political distraction.
Last summer, anonymous White House officials ruined the career of Mr. Wilson’s wife by exposing her identity as a C.I.A. agent. Their aim was to draw attention away Read More
According to contemporary political lore, the Bush clan exalts loyalty above every other virtue. Other politicians envy that inviolable code, whose power is reflected in the absence of leaks from the White House, in the lockstep obedience of politicians in Congress and around the country, and in the enormous cash donations from hundreds of wealthy Read More
