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...From TIME.com • An Indictment and Resignation Lewis Libby is charged with obstruction and perjury and has resigned from his position as Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Where does the CIA leak investigation go from here...
...Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has been indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements by a federal grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of a covert CIA operative. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who heads the two-year-old investigation, believes that Libby lied about how he learned-then shared with reporters-the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA operative who is married to Joseph Wilson, a former diplomat who has been fiercely critical of the Bush Administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
...with doubts over the Adminstration's claims that Iraq was seeking nuclear weapons. Wilson went public with the news that, more than a year earlier, he had privately refuted, on behalf of the CIA, claims about an African connection to Saddam Hussein's alleged WMD arsenal. Wilson suggested that Cheney must have known before the war that the claims were bogus. People who worked with Libby tell TIME that he regarded Wilson's criticisms as part of a wider effort by the CIA to shift blame to the White House for the faulty pre-war claims about Iraq...
...which fellows present their current projects—in conversation with community, faculty members, and students—and receive current feedback on their work. She emphasized that all members of the Harvard community are welcome to attend these discussions.This year’s new fellows are Syl Cheney-Coker, previously a fellow of the Villa-Aurora Foundation for European-American Relations; Bobby Donaldson, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina; Stanley Engerman, a professor at the University of Rochester; Ronald Ferreira, assistant professor at the University of Virginia; Maria Frias, professor at the University of Coruna in Spain...
...their reputations. Republican National Committee chairman and Baltimore Orioles fan Ken Mehlman is applying Moneyball's stats-centric strategy to his own game. "Politics, like baseball, for years was less effective than it could be because you didn't try to quantify things," he told TIME. Mehlman managed Bush-Cheney '04, which set "metrics" for making phone calls and knocking on doors, and tracked ads on spreadsheets. He obsesses over detailed data like turnout in Florida among newly registered Republicans who call themselves fiscal conservatives (91.2% last year), all new G.O.P.ers (75.7%) and overall (65.3%)--numbers that he says show...