Category: Republicans

saw this on the Well: July 28, 2005 Office of Lawyer Regulation 110 East Main St Room 315 Madison WI 53703 I hereby request investigation on the basis of the following: Hon. James Sensenbrenner U.S. House of Representatives Washington DC 202/225-5101 We believe the ex parte communication, “in which [Mr.] Sensenbrenner directly contacted the chief…

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Tony Pierce holds Glenn Reynolds feet to the fire, the Editors point out that the Washington press corps isn’t having an attack of conscience right now, Frank Rich analyses the Watergate analogy, John Aravosis asks the musical question, “If Karl Rove is fully complying then why does the president have to wait for the investigation…

Quoting from James Wolcott: Blowback Is a Bitch: When word broke that Karl Rove’s name was the live hand grenade rolling around in Matt Cooper’s notes, I immediately flashbacked to this almost Elizabethan scenario of palace intrigue and betrayal from From the Wilderness. Its author, Michael C. Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon. Its title,…

The very next Q&A in the press conference xian links to below is also a prize specimen of weasel-wordedness: Q Two questions. First, you’ve said in the past that, on the matter of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller that the President supports the investigation. What specific steps is the White House taking to support it?…

I’ve been thinking this could turn out to be Watergate 2.0 – a first-term scandal that bears fruit in the president’s second term. Or maybe not. Here’s an update from Quoting from Mark A. R. Kleiman: David Ignatius speculates in the Washington Post that Patrick Fitzgerald’s pursuit of journalists’ testimony might indicate that he has…