Reading A1Politics, Media, RhetoricWill Scooter fall on his sword- October 30, 2005 (Title borrowed from the ever-entertaining Whatever It Is, I'm Against It.) I want to revist the subject of my last post, Tuesday's scoop in the Times that fingered Dick Cheney as Scooter Libby's source for the identity of Valerie Plame. Nobody else is much talking about the article—on the hows and whys of its appearance, at least—and yet I think it throws a light, however ambiguous, on the obscure doings behind the scenes this last week. And maybe allows us a bit of insight into.http://blogs.salon.com/0003364/2005/10/30.html#a525 Scooter Libby does not go quietly.- October 25, 2005 It's late and I should be in bed, but this one I can't resist. Let's parse the big NYT "revelation" about Dick Cheney as Libby's Ur-source in the Plame scandal, shall we First of all, this is a leak from Scooter Libby's legal team. Just application of the cui bono principle probably would have told us that anyway, but why bother JohnstonStevensonJehl helpfully spell it out: It would not be illegal for either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby, both of whom are presumably cleared to know the...http://blogs.salon.com/0003364/2005/10/25.html#a524 No one, you see, Can spill more than he.- October 18, 2005 RAW STORY says (via Susie Madrak) that Fitzgerald's flipped John Hannah. Individuals familiar with Fitzgerald&146;s case tell RAW STORY that John Hannah, a senior national security aide on loan to Vice President Dick Cheney from the offices of then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, John Bolton, was named as a target of Fitzgerald&146;s probe. They say he was told in recent weeks that he could face imminent indictment for his role in leaking...http://blogs.salon.com/0003364/2005/10/18.html#a523 That blur you saw- October 17, 2005 in the middle of yesterday's big tell-some in the Times was Judy Miller, in the midst of being airbrushed out of the paper's group photo. As it's rare—not to mention rather a contradiction in terms—for an unpersoning to document itself, students of the form should take careful notes. Mr. Sulzberger and the paper's executive editor, Bill Keller, knew few details about Ms. Miller's conversations with her confidential source other than his name. They did not review Ms. Miller's...http://blogs.salon.com/0003364/2005/10/17.html#a522 Woo Woo.- October 11, 2005 I was treated this morning at Avanti, the Southport coffee shop I frequent, to a long, episodic and disjointed conversation with a Northside legend, Cubs superfan Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers. It's fall temperatures now, and Ronnie showed up today (he comes in to the shop every so often, though I've never talked with him before) with a blue warmup jacket over the full Cubs uniform ("Woo Woo" stitched across the back) that he always, always wears. I sat in the window up front, reading the Times'...http://blogs.salon.com/0003364/2005/10/10.html#a521 |