Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller was on the stand at the Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial today. Miller spent 85 days in the slammer for refusing to testify to a grand jury about conversations with Libby on the subjects of former ambassador Joe Wilson, his CIA wife and the administration’s insistence that Iraq sought […]

Plame-At-A-Glance™ condenses the whole Plame Affair down to one easy-to-understand flow chart…

Senators Chris Dodd and John Kerry met Army Captain Brian Freeman in Iraq about a month ago. Freeman was killed during that stunning January 20 raid in Karbala. Kerry and Dodd both say his death has increased their determination to oppose the administration’s new last plan. My question is, “Why?”
Why would it take the death […]

Former Time Magazine reporter John Dickerson had a big day at the Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial. On February 7 of last year Dickerson wrote a two-part story for Slate called “Where’s My Subpoena?” The story was his take on both why his name surfaced in connection with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into who blew […]

Robert Kagan and Jean Renoir are not soul mates. Renoir’s 1937 film, La Grande Illusion, remains one of the best anti-war films ever made. Kagan’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post, Grand Delusion, is one among a constant ooze of sludge-like shoot-em-up paeans to The Surge that will be remembered, if at all, only as an […]

On January 10, Max Boot committed heresy. Best known as an aficionado of all things colonial — jodhpurs, pith helmets, Kipling, the French Foreign Legion, noble wars — Boot spoke words of praise for press coverage of the Iraq invasion and occupation, and warned against the brain-rotting temptation to blame the reporting of bad outcomes […]

Tim Russert became the first press casualty of the Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial on Thursday, but most of his colleagues neglected to report it**. The host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” was identified, in evidence submitted to bolster the testimony of Dick Cheney aide Cathie Martin, as the vice president’s platform of choice to push […]

There’s a revealing tidbit in a “Sporting Scene” article in the current New Yorker that sheds some light on today’s front page Washington Post story about how the Bush administration wants American troops to start killing Iranians in Iraq…

We mentioned on January 16 that Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is slated to receive the First Amendment Leadership Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF). On March 8, Ailes will join past recipients such as Katherine Graham, the Washington Post publisher who presided over the paper’s Watergate reporting; First Amendment attorney […]

Much attention was paid yesterday to the introduction of Bush capo Karl Rove as the villain behind Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s legal predicament. A Google News search for the names of the two men returned some 1500 results (and counting). But don’t be fooled: Libby v. Rove is a sideshow aimed at diverting the jury’s attention […]