Tuesday, October 18, 2005
A Turncoat Among the WHIGs? ( New York Daily News challenges that big unwieldy thing filled with Tiffany's ads for news leadership in Gotham)
New York Daily News
- 18 October 2005
The White House Iraq Group still hasn't been mentioned in Judy Miller's paper outside of Frank Rich's groundbreaking column on Sunday (would they let him write directly about the Times' conflicts of interest in this story?). Plus, the Times' Washington Bureau writers wouldn't know how to use the word "honcho" in a sentence, and they certainly wouldn't demean the standard response of an official government spokesthing by calling it "canned".
There are times when the Times' sober politesse is totally uncalled for.
If the tabloids smell blood in the water this could be fun ... ¶ 10/18/2005 10:21:00 AM
- 18 October 2005
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"[...]At least one source and one reporter who have testified in the probe said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame affair.
In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers - most members of the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the grand jury, including the vice president's top honcho, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and two top Cheney national security lieutenants.
Cheney's name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a secret snitch.
'They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving them all of that,' a source who has been questioned in the leak probe told the Daily News yesterday.
Cheney was questioned last year by prosecutors and has hired a private attorney, former colleague Terrence O'Donnell, who declined to comment when contacted by The News.
Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride only offered the standard canned response that her boss is cooperating.[...]"
There are times when the Times' sober politesse is totally uncalled for.
If the tabloids smell blood in the water this could be fun ... ¶ 10/18/2005 10:21:00 AM
