Rumors, Accident, Interviews, Articles and Jon Stewart

This will be a short, quick entry. . .I think. First of all, for those of you who have heard that I was in a car accident last night — thanks for your notes. I am ok.
This will be a short, quick entry. . .I think. First of all, for those of you who have heard that I was in a car accident last night — thanks for your notes. I am ok.
An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source): 1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end. 2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters. 3. The indictments will be sealed indictments and “filed” tomorrow. 4.
This just out. Scott McClellan has just thrown Karl Rove and Scooter Libby to the wolves today when a reporter asked whether White House press responses could be trusted give Scott’s earlier denials that anyone in the White House had anything to do with outing Valerie Plame Wilson.
This just in from a close friend who worked inside the pinnacle of Republican power in the Senate a few years ago, so while this is rumor — it’s Republican rumor, which makes it interesting: Steve, just heard from trusted friend that McCain was approached about serving as VP if Cheney has “health problems” or…
With revelations now out that Vice President Cheney was Scooter Libby’s source for some of the Valerie Plame information, his week — which was already going to be bad — just got a heck of a lot worse.
I have just been tipped off that the Los Angeles Times plans to run a rip-the-veneer-off the White House cabal op-ed by Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former State Department Chief of Staff, in the morning.
Scooter Libby has been caught in a very serious lie about the source of his knowledge that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent. He apparently testified before the grand jury that his source had been a journalist. However, the New York Times now reports that his source was his boss, Vice President Cheney.
Bob Herbert, in this morning’s New York Times, lays out some of the key themes raised by Lawrence Wilkerson in his candid and thoughtful talk at the New America Foundation last Wednesday.
Jeffrey Goldberg has written a critique in The New Yorker of the Bush White House that equals Ron Suskind’s devastating critique of Bush before the last election titled “Without a Doubt.
Here is the release today from The New Yorker on the important article by Jeffrey Goldberg on Brent Scowcroft: Brent Scowcroft on the War in Iraq and the Bush Administration In “Breaking Ranks” (p.