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...outing of CIA operative Valerie Wilson (né Plame) consumed Washington for three years. The case received a radical reconfiguring when former State Department bigwig Richard Armitage confirmed that he was the original source for columnist Robert Novak's revelation. Novak weighed in last week, calling Armitage's contrition bogus and the leak deliberate. In the D.C. bureau of Fox News, anchor Brit Hume goaded Plamegate chronicler David Corn into an off-camera shouting spree. "Both leaked classified information, Brit!" Corn raged. "Go ahead and laugh!" Here, TIME re-evaluates some major players. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy...
...Mohammad Quchani, the newspaper's renowned columnist, edged his way into the room, and asked Atrianfar whether he thought the closure might be temporary. They argued briefly over the most appropriate metaphor for the situation. Was banning a newspaper more like a car breaking down on the road, or a plane shutting off mid-flight? Was this going to be a crash or a stall? As they discussed, I sat thinking about how much I would miss Shargh, with its ironic headlines, perfectly pitched gibes at the government, and relentless reporting on Iran's social ills. Who else is going...
...Consider Charles Krauthammer, an influential Washington Post - and TIME magazine - columnist and administration ally. He is the probable source of Rumsfeld's quote, having used it in his August 11 newspaper column about Iran. In doing so, he joined what writer Ross Douthat calls the growing number of conservatives who see "Iran's march toward nuclear power" as "the equivalent of Hitler's 1930s brinkmanship." And a Nexis search reveals that Krauthammer tends to see Hitler analogies everywhere - he trotted out the same Borah quote to denounce the alleged appeasement of China in 1989 and North Korea...
...Holding is the former executive editor of Legal Affairs magazine and legal columnist and investigative reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle...
...from Israel" is appalling. Anyone who understands Arabic or has listened to Hizballah's occasional statements in English knows that the group aims to destroy Israel. To doubt that is to accept the doublespeak of Hizballah propagandists and apologists. Aryeh Green Beit Shemesh, Israel Radical Islam vs. the U.S. Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that the Middle East is a new front in the U.S. war on Islamic terrorism [Aug. 7]. After mocking radical Islamists for daring to call for a return of land that was under their control more than 600 years ago, Krauthammer ends his essay by pointing...