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...choice of words, I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically," Obama said, adding that he had spoken to Sgt. James Crowley, the officer who made the arrest, earlier on Friday over the telephone. He said that he had reiterated to Crowley that he was an outstanding police officer and a good...
...Earlier at the press conference, police leaders had sharply denounced criticisms of the CPD's handling of the incident and rejected the notion that race had any part in influencing Crowley's actions during the incident. Crowley, who attended the conference but did not speak, was accompanied by supportive representatives from the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association, and the Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition...
Gates, one of the nation's most renowned black scholars, dominated media reporting on the case earlier in the week, loudly accusing Crowley of racial profiling and demanding an apology from the officer...
...Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity by senior White House officials. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point - and perhaps past...
...Commutation Fail-Safe This Libby-pardon fight - an account pieced together from dozens of interviews with former officials who agreed to speak only without attribution - began two years earlier, in the federal district courthouse in Washington. In a case that gripped the capital but often mystified the rest of the country, Cheney's former top aide on domestic and foreign policy stood accused of obstructing a federal investigation into the source of an egregious media leak: the identity of an undercover CIA officer named Valerie Plame. Her husband Joseph Wilson, a former diplomat, had written...