Elections & Public Integrity
Comey’s lasting damage
John O’Connor argues for the Daily Caller that former FBI Director James Comey has inflicted serious damage on the U.S. justice system. We should all agree with James Comey’s assertions…
Lewis Libby
American lawyer and political advisor
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Better late than never: the truth about Scooter Libby
Fans of the late Robert Novak might remember a minor controversy that erupted in December 2005 when Novak addressed a John Locke Foundation Headliner audience in Raleigh. During the question-and-answer…
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Hanson probes the president’s propensity for storytelling
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online dissects President Obama’s penchant for self-contradiction. A sign of an undisciplined mind is serial lapses into self-contradiction, or blurting out a…
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Will ‘Scooter Libby rules’ apply in prosecution of the latest national security leakers?
Blogging for Commentary, Jonathan S. Tobin wonders whether the investigation of alleged national security leaks from the Obama administration to the New York Times will lead to the same prosecutorial…
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McClatchy in the news, and not in a good way
McClatchy reporter James Asher helped the Congressional Black Caucus perpetrate its N-word and spitting hoax on the Sunday the health care bill was passed in the House, and now one…
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Speaking of ignoring key facts ?
An interesting TIME cover story on the debate about a presidential pardon for Scooter Libby includes this passage: Cheney’s former top aide on domestic and foreign policy stood accused of…
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ACORN to get RICO treatment?
A couple of weeks ago, in a post about ACORN‘s execrable vote-fraud activities, I asked: ACORN has proved itself to be an ongoing criminal organization. It’s time we did something…
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Scooter
There’s lots of local reaction to President Bush’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s sentence. Greeensboro’s Steven Taub writes: So President Bush just commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence because it was “too…
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Libby’s sentence commuted
CNN is, naturally, interviewing serial liar Joe Wilson regarding President Bush’s commuting of Scooter Libby’s perjury and obstruction of justice sentence. He just accused Libby of being a traitor for…
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We don’t need no stinking journalism!
I knew I would soon be gritting my teeth when I sat down with my copy of the new TIME; the cover has a photo illustration of the vice president…
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Hank Greenberg, Reade Seligmann, Scooter Libby, and the Knave of Hearts
Daniel Henninger makes the connections.
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In my defense, I said I lacked the capacity to envision all the nutty avenues the conspiracy theories would take
But still, it was terribly short-sighted of me yesterday to assume that the barking out of said conspiracy theories hinged upon the life of Harry Whittington. News & Observer columnist…