Category: Politics

IN THE FALL OF 1994, the Nation‘s David Corn wrote an account of George W. Bush muscling the Argentine minister of public works on behalf of the Houston-based energy pipeline giant Enron. Corn reported that Bush had called the Argentine official in 1988 to introduce himself as the son of the current vice president who would […]

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Protégé System—Tom DeLay, indicted and awaiting trial in Texas while still making the rounds as a chat-show talking head, recently posted a touching encomium to Denny Hastert, the former Republican House Speaker, on his website. Under the headline “A Genius for Service,” DeLay described Hastert as “a Speaker of the whole House,” observing that “Democrats never […]

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ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN BEGINS HER dispassionate 2006 book, The Impeachment of George W. Bush, with an account of the House Judiciary Committee’s July 27, 1974, vote to impeach Richard Nixon. She describes her difficulty saying the word “yes” when it was time for her to cast her vote, and committee chairman Peter Rodino returning to his office […]

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Plame’s Day in Court—Lefty bloggers went through the roof, July 19, when D.C. Federal District Judge John D. Bates threw out the lawsuit Valerie Plame had filed against Vice President Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, et al. for revealing Plame’s identity as a CIA agent. Regarding Bates, the critics are spot on. He was a deputy assistant counsel […]

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ON JUNE 5, I. LEWIS “SCOOTER” LIBBY was sentenced to thirty months in prison and fined $250,000 by U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton, following Libby’s March 6 conviction on four counts of obstruction of justice and perjury. On June 14, Walton ordered the vice president’s former aide to prepare to begin serving his […]

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