From American Family Voices - Miriam V

The Valerie Plame leak scandal has become a full-fledged political storm
that threatens to engulf the Bush White House - and the administration has
once
again offered an inept response. A new wrinkle was added recently with the
news that Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
had
sent a letter to New York Times reporter Judith Miller that could have been
an attempt to steer her grand jury testimony, and could potentially be seen
as an obstruction of justice. According to Miller's recollections of her
conversations with Libby during the summer of 2003, Libby mentioned former
ambassador
Joseph Wilson's wife and connected her to the CIA. In another troubling
development for the Bush administration, it was revealed that Karl Rove
initially
failed to inform investigators about his conversations with Time reporter
Matthew Cooper on the subject of Wilson and his wife's job. "There's no
question
that, when you don't reveal something that appears to be material to an
investigator initially, it raises questions in a prosecutor's mind and
perhaps
a grand juror's mind," said Joseph diGenova, a former Reagan administration
attorney, who also added that "people do forget things."
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Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) is facing serious charges of money laundering and
corruption in connection with his fundraising tactics. So how has he
responded?
By using the charges to raise more money for his campaign coffers. DeLay
raised nearly $1 million from July through September, even as he faced
intense
scrutiny over his past dealings. Now his website blares, "Help Tom Fight
Back," and asks visitors for even more money while attacking District
Attorney
Ronnie Earle. "He clearly is aiming at the jury pool and aiming at voters,
hoping to generate as much sympathy as he can. And it shows DeLay never
misses
a beat when it comes to fundraising - no matter how dark things get," said
Larry Noble, the former chief election enforcement lawyer for the
government.
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Who Says That?

"If he [Karl Rove] is indicted, I just don't know what's going to happen to
the country. I don't want chaos in the executive branch." - Bill O'Reilly,
speaking
about Karl Rove on The O'Reilly Factor, October 14, 2005.

Morning Snark
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Wow, O'Reilly really seems to have bought into the idea of Rove as the
Oz-like figure behind the curtain. (As opposed to the alternate
interpretation where
he's the wicked witch that controls bands of evil flying monkeys eager to do
his bidding.)
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