August 10, 2005
'Bitter Vindication Watch: Plamegate' - 07:16 AMBack in the early days of this blog I made a few predictions, one of which was, "The various lingering Administration scandals and investigations will bear no fruit until after the next Congressional elections, and then only if Democrats make...
July 18, 2005
'PlameGate Final Wrap-Up' - 07:48 AMI'll do one more roundup on this, and then you're all on your own until the grand jury hands out indictments. Laura Rozen of War and Piece engages in a little Kremlinology over the never-declassified State Department memo (Source Zero...
July 16, 2005
'The CIA Speaks' - 09:51 AMFormer and current CIA operatives speak out in a letter to George Bush: We joined the CIA to fight against foreign tyrants who used the threat of incarceration, torture, and murder to achieve their ends. They followed the rule of...
July 15, 2005
'Follow Up Questions' - 07:50 AMA small round-up of late-breaking updates to my previous post on the Rove/Plame Scandal. The NY Times and Washington Post report that an anonymous source is now saying that Karl Rove found out about Valerie Plame from Robert Novak! Intriguing....
'Q & A With Redstate' - 12:12 AM
Redstate.org steps to the plate with an impressive post detailing the open and closed questions in the Rove/Plame scandal. Impressive not for its accuracy - they're still pretty clouded by the GOP spin machine - but for their willingness to...
July 13, 2005
'Rove Roundup' - 01:38 PMBuildling on my last post, several Rove/Plame Scandal twists have hit today. On TPMCafe, Larry Johnson, a former covert CIA officer, explains exactly what burning Plame means. If you didn't believe me when I said it's a serious, serious matter,...
'Why Plame is Important' - 07:45 AM
The big scandal in the news today is, of course, the burning of Valerie Plame. This is a complicated one, and the Fitzgerald investigations concern some pretty specific legal questions. Did Karl Rove (and Scooter Libby, and whoever else was...