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Truth Can Be Anonymous
David Wise has covered Washington during 10 presidential administrations. He has many unidentified sources.There could be no more dramatic reminder of the value to the public of anonymous sources than the disclosure that W. Mark Felt, once the FBI's second-ranking official, was that most mysterious of anonymous sources, "Deep Throat." The revelation came at...Tags: The Washington Post, Wars and Interventions, News Media, Islam, Calvin Coolidge
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Prosecutor urges judge to jail 2 reporters at once
Sun StaffA special prosecutor pleaded with a federal judge yesterday to punish two recalcitrant reporters by sending them to jail, not put them under house arrest as they had hoped. In memos filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington, the prosecutor,...Tags: The Washington Post, News Media, Justice System, Lawyers, The New York Times
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Paul Weyrich, religious conservative and ex-president of Heritage Foundation, dies at 66
Paul Weyrich, the blunt-tongued cultural warrior who helped to engineer the union between the Republican Party and the Christian Right, coined the phrase "moral majority" and was a driving force behind some of the conservative movement's leading...Tags: The Washington Post, Republican Party, Ohio, Christianity, Arts and Culture
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Patrick Fitzgerald profile (March 2007)
Tribune staff reportersPatrick Fitzgerald has been living a dual life. As the top federal prosecutor in northern Illinois, Fitzgerald has solidified a reputation as a no-nonsense corruption buster--"Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree," as a friend once described him.In his other...Tags: Republican Party, Misdemeanors, Court Preliminary, Justice System, Public Officials
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Note shows official knew Rove talked to reporter
Associated PressWASHINGTON - After mentioning a CIA operative to a reporter, Bush confidant Karl Rove alerted the president's No. 2 security adviser about the interview and said he tried to steer the journalist away from allegations the operative's husband was making...Tags: Criminals, Laws, Niger, Republican Party, Lawyers
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President says he won't prejudge Rove
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he would not judge the role that senior aide Karl Rove might have played in revealing the identity of a CIA agent until a federal criminal investigator had finished his work. Noting the continuing...Tags: Republican Party, Justice System, Lawyers, The New York Times, Newspapers
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High court refuses appeal of 2 reporters facing jail
Sun StaffTwo journalists could be jailed as early as this week after the U.S. Supreme Court declined yesterday to hear their appeals of a ruling finding them in contempt of court for refusing to disclose their sources. The decision could have a chilling effect on...Tags: Court Preliminary, Lawyers, Justice System, The New York Times, Freedom of the Press
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Plame case shines a light on the value of CIA operatives' cover
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON - Several months after her identity as a CIA operative was exposed in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame had dinner with five of her classmates from the agency's training academy. Four had already left the CIA, and they spent the evening...Tags: Career and Workplace, Diplomacy, Washington (U.S. state), Milan (Italy), Newspapers
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Democrats spin conspiracy theory around Rove
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - A spy outed. A reporter jailed. And now, a White House operative fingered. Democrats couldn't have spun a more intriguing conspiracy theory around Karl Rove, President Bush's political guru and top adviser, if they'd tried. As Rove...Tags: The Washington Post, Wars and Interventions, Republican Party, News Media, Howard Dean
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Aides' woes could badly harm Bush
Sun reporterWashington // It's not often that President Bush, who casts himself as decisive and bold, is cut off from decisions of grave importance to his presidency. But as he and his team brace for the results of a lengthy CIA leak investigation that has reached...Tags: Diplomacy, Wars and Interventions, News Media, Disasters, New York University
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Libby known for discretion, loyalty
Times Staff WriterI. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was walking down a nearly deserted street in Des Moines, Iowa, last year after a long day on the campaign trail with his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby encountered a group of reporters who had just finished dinner at a...Tags: Larry King, Wars and Interventions, Justice System, Lawyers, The New York Times
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Novak defends actions in leak
Sun StaffIn another installment of the cat-and-mouse game that the affair of the CIA spy's leaked name has become, conservative columnist Robert Novak gave an unexpected glimpse yesterday at his role in the matter, something he promised he would not do until it...Tags: The Washington Post, Niger, Diplomacy, News Media, Washington (U.S. state)
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