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...leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. The sentence is longer than the minimum recommended by federal guidelines, and the judge said he sees no likely justification for an appeal. Libby, 56, the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since Iran-contra, could go to jail within two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 18, 2007 | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...worth remembering that off-year elections often aren't predictors of the outcome of the next presidential one. The 1994 Republican off-year sweep was followed by Bill Clinton's easy 1996 victory over Bob Dole. The 1986 Democratic take-back of the Senate and the 1987 Iran-contra scandal didn't prevent then Vice President George H.W. Bush from dismantling Michael Dukakis in 1988. 2006 was a bad year for the G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Republicans Are Smiling | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...been embroiled�with Iran since�1979, first with the hostage crisis, then with Iran-contra, now with the "axis of evil." And if the past is any indication, that entanglement--sour, multiform and intractable--is likely to last decades: it took four Presidents, two wars and several treaties to get us out of the bad relationship the last time we tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Template for Taming Iran | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...history in the past decade -- the invasion of Lebanon, the de facto annexation of the territories through settlement by Israelis, many of whom are religious fundamentalists, the Pollard affair in which the Israeli government assigned an American Jew to spy on the U.S., the Israeli involvement in the Iran-contra enterprise -- has raised the question of whether Israel has lost its way. Israel's accomplishments have the prestige of the miraculous. To many Jews, Israel is a fact of primal identity -- primal precisely because it lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL At 40: the Dream Confronts Palestinian Fury | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Iranians Out for Revenge? | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

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