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Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and assistant to the president, has been indicted for a cover-up.   As U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald made clear at the Oct. 28 press conference announcing Libby’s indictment, he believes Libby "went before a federal grand jury and lied under oath repeatedly and … Continue reading “What Libby’s Indictment Means for the Jacobins”

Losing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, perhaps the most influential national security official without a formal cabinet rank, marks a serious blow to the George W. Bush administration and particularly to the hawks who led the drive to war in Iraq. Like his boss Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, Libby, who was indicted Friday for perjury, obstruction … Continue reading “A Formidable Hawk Goes Down”

with Katherine Stapp US Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and top national security aide resigned Friday, hours before a grand jury formally indicted him on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice following a 22-month probe into the public disclosure of the identity of a covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative. The resignation … Continue reading “Cheney’s Top Aide Indicted in CIA Leak Case”

The White House still maintains there was evidence other than crude forgeries to back its prewar charge Saddam Hussein was trying to procure uranium from Niger, giving a reed of hope to loyal defenders that the whole Iraq nuke scare wasn’t an orchestrated fraud begging for cover-up. But when pressed, the White House defers to … Continue reading “The Nucleus of the Scandal”

Implosion update: And so they fall: Tom DeLay just weeks back. Harriet Miers yesterday. I. Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby today. Prepare yourself. It’s going to be a long, hard dive into deep waters that should, sooner or later, lead us back to the beginning. Think of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictment of the Vice President’s Chief … Continue reading “Smoking Guns and Red Herrings”

NEW DELHI – Seven years after blasting its way into the world’s "nuclear club," India has executed a major shift in its policy stance by jettisoning its long-standing advocacy of global nuclear disarmament in favor of nuclear non-proliferation. On Monday, the country’s Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran enunciated a new doctrinal orientation: India will now be … Continue reading “India Abandons Global Nuclear Disarmament”

While indictment fever gripped the Washington press corps this month, the president’s spin doctor was incapacitated. An ailing Karl Rove could not help the Republican search for a media cure. With temperature rising, the political physician was in no position to cure himself or anyone else. Now, a media siege is underway at the White … Continue reading “At the White House, the Spin Doctor Is Ill”

Iraq by the Numbers George Bush stated that he would rather fight terrorism in Iraq than in the United States. But what if the result is the same? The next big number in Iraq is going to be when the number of American soldiers killed there is equal to the number of people killed in … Continue reading “Backtalk, October 29, 2005”

Last week, James Moore, a former television news correspondent and the co-author of the bestselling Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, wrote an op-ed piece entitled “Fitzgerald’s Historic Opportunity” that appeared originally at HuffingtonPost.com and has since been reposted elsewhere. Quoth James Moore: “Patrick Fitzgerald has before him the most important … Continue reading “Historic Opportunity”

“It’s not over.” Out of Fitzgerald’s hour-long press conference, these three words had the most resonance. Before we get into that, however, let’s look at the man who has come out from behind the screen of this very closely-held investigation. Fitzgerald’s debut at the press conference put on display a character who might have been … Continue reading “Libby: The War Party’s Kamikaze”