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...addition to having done hot-spot duty, the members of the Hellhole Gang are distinguished by their pragmatism, which has allowed them to serve under Presidents of both parties. The team includes Rice's new deputy, John Negroponte, who was the first U.S. ambassador to post-Saddam Baghdad; David Satterfield, Rice's special adviser on Iraq, who served in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; Anne Patterson, former ambassador to Colombia, who oversees law-enforcement training in Iraq and Afghanistan; Welch, who was in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad in 1979 when it was seized by a violent mob; Nicholas Burns...
...open-ended war on flimsy evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Yes, Congress went along. And yes, the public on balance supported it. But no one was more responsible than the Vice President for pushing the limits of the prewar intelligence that did all the convincing. And when former ambassador Joseph Wilson questioned the credibility of that intelligence - and the motives that helped polish it - it was Cheney who led the fight to bring him down...
...Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in the end, was responsible for his own undoing. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was accused of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters after her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote an op-ed piece critical of the war in Iraq...
...time to call Tim Russert and complain about it. Fitzgerald had notes and witnesses to prove that Libby, for a least a few minutes a day, stopped thinking about "the next 9/11" and instead counted the number of times Matthews questioned why "the Vice President" had sent former ambassador Joe Wilson to look for evidence of Iraq's interest in WMDs. It was Fitzgerald's job in court to stress Libby's role as a senior commandant in what TIME speculated was a Bush White House "war on Wilson...
...Proponents of the Bush Administration's more hawkish previous policy pounced, all but suggesting that the uranium program was being downplayed so as not to disrupt ongoing talks. John Bolton, former ambassador to the U.N., wrote that "there has been no suggestion that the original intelligence from 2002 has been contradicted or discredited" - which was true - and called on President Bush "sooner rather than later" to "tell us what he thinks about the intelligence, and the direction of his own [North Korea] policy...