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November 4, 2009

 

WHAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THIS WEEK

22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case

This week Washington has been poring over the newly released notes from Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI, in which investigators quizzed him about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's status as a covert CIA operative. The former vice president was a reluctant witness, to say the least. When he was not disparaging journalists or the "amateur hour" scene at the CIA, he was claiming that he could not recall numerous key details about the case. Most implausibly, Cheney said he had no idea how his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, learned that Plame Wilson was a covert agent—when Libby's personal notes showed that Cheney himself informed Libby of this fact. Cheney's claim strains belief given that after the investigation got under way, Libby told the veep about these notes. The FBI interview may not have yielded a lot of new information about how exactly the leak occurred or how Iraq intelligence was manipulated. But it does put one fact beyond reasonable doubt: Dick Cheney is a very, very lucky man. —David Corn [READ MORE]

 

BREAKING NEWS

Now Max Baucus Is Messing With the Climate Bill

If you liked what the Montana senator did for health care reform, you'll love his plans for cap-and-trade legislation. By Kate Sheppard [READ MORE]

Is Obama Plotting to Shut Down the Internet?

Anti-immigration activist William Gheen might take the prize as
the week's most paranoid Obama critic. By Stephanie Mencimer [READ MORE]

 

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New documents expose the inner workings of a shadowy astroturf operation that aimed to sink climate legislation. Plus: when grilled about the affair by Congress, did the coal lobby's CEO lie under oath? By Kate Sheppard [READ MORE]

 

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Neocon Smear on Iran's Man in DC?

Did Michael Goldfarb, a former John McCain staffer and an editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard, defame Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, by suggesting that Parsi works for the Iranian government? Read Nick Baumann's post, plus reactions from around the web. [READ MORE]