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From ThinkProgress:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will publish a memoir in April titled “What Happened.” In an excerpt posted by his publisher, McClellan implicates “the President himself” in the Valerie Plame scandal:
“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost [...]

I doubt these e-mails will ever see the light of day. They will claim they’ve been destroyed and have no record of any of these e-mails. The American public will probably just let them get away with lies once again. It’s sad really. The Republicans know they can get away with [...]

Most Americans see President George W. Bush as too inflexible on the war in Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-run Congress have the final word on when to withdraw U.S. forces, a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed on Monday.
I guess when you fuck up for this long people start to lose faith in you, huh? [...]

Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department official involved in a bedside standoff over President Bush’s eavesdropping program, a Senate committee learned Wednesday.
In a written account, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey said Cheney warned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that he would oppose the promotion of a department official who once [...]

From the outset, as legal experts saw it, the case against I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was simple — and hard to defend.
When asked by the FBI and later by the grand jury about CIA agent Valerie Plame, Libby said he first learned of her in mid-July of 2003 when NBC reporter Tim Russert told him [...]

The judge and attorneys in the Lewis “Scooter” Libby case slogged through more potential jurors Thursday to reach 30 qualified out of a necessary 36, prompting the judge to hope for better results when jury selection resumes Monday.
In three days of interviews, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton and the trial attorneys have disqualified 19 potential [...]

IO Error writes:
Col. Lawrence Wilson, aide to former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, today accused Vice-President Dick Cheney of ignoring a presidential directive regarding treatment of prisoners by the U.S. military and advocating the use of terror.
Asked by the BBC?s Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: ?It?s an [...]

I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney?s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.
Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. [...]