Looks like you may have some questions to answer to: Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin. Federal officials […]
Looks like the Abramoff stuff is really starting to piss off Bob Ney: Rep. Bob Ney, under enormous political and legal pressure for more than a year, has lashed out against press coverage of his plight, voicing great displeasure over stories focusing on the controversial golfing trip to Scotland that threatens his grip on the […]
It has gone way to far now: A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation. We do not know […]
With everyone paying attention to Bush and his now known involvement in the CIA leak case, one thing has been overlooked – what impact this revelation has on Libby’s defense. Today the Washington Post looks at that angle: Fitzgerald argued, in essence, that the White House effort to rebut Wilson’s criticism was so intense, and […]
Well the Plame case has taken a very interesting turn: A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded “National Intelligence Estimate” on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of […]
Remember when Howard Dean made his statement on a radio station about how we are losing the war in Iraq? The right was up in arms calling him a traitor. Pundits came out from everywhere on the right to try and discredit him. Well here is something new for them to get up in arms […]
Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has “a problem” in the investigation of the leak of a CIA operative’s identity if his testimony conflicts with information given to the grand jury by New York Times reporter Judith Miller, her lawyer said yesterday. Robert S. Bennett, speaking on the ABC program […]
Via Raw Story: Reporter in leak case to take leave of absence effective immediately 10/15/2005 @ 4:19 pm Filed by John Byrne and Jason Leopold New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail protecting her source in the recent CIA leak investigation, will take an indefinite leave of absence effective immediately. […]
Judy Miller finally released her account today of her ordeal surrounding the Valerie Plame leak (full New York Times articlehere). I have not read the entire article in full, but have read an interesting diagnosis into it done by Editor and Publisher magazine. For the first time this clearly, Miller, in today’s article, admits, “WMD–I […]
Will Karl Rove leave the White House. Better yet, want to make a bet on it. Well you can through Sportsbook.com: Americans betting Rove’s White House days are numbered Thursday October 13, 3:03 pm ET Sportsbook.com offers updated odds on Karl Rove’s future in the Bush Administration after final grand jury testimony WASHINGTON, D.C., […]