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This time of year politics is everywhere. A group of congressional staffers turned songwriters, Capitol Steps take that to heart, using politics as material and putting it to Ella Fitzgerald or a pop number. Song titles include “Fakey Purple Heart” and “Edwards vs. Cheney”. Tickets $30, $27, 22. Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. 8:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
Karl Rove, one of President Bush?s top White House aides, testified this morning before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name by administration sources. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald questioned Rove about his contacts with journalists in what a source familiar with Rove's situation said was his third appearance before the grand jury. "My client appeared voluntarily before the grand jury and has cooperated with the investigation since it began," said Rove's attorney Robert Luskin. "He has been assured in writing as recently as this week that he is not a target...
...Fitzgerald is trying to find out who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative married to former ambassador Joe Wilson, to several journalists in July 2003. Conservative columnist Robert Novak was the first to disclose Plame?s name in print. In a July 14, 2003 column in the Washington Post, Novak said that two unnamed administration sources had told him that Plame was involved in the CIA?s decision to send her husband to Africa in 2002 to investigate a tip that Iraq had tried to purchase enriched uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons program. In early...
...Rove's grand jury appearance comes as Fitzgerald is aggressively pursuing the testimony of two other journalists ensnared in the case, Time's Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times. Three days after Novak?s column appeared, Cooper and two colleagues wrote an article for Time Magazine?s Website saying that ?government officials? had told them that Wilson?s wife was a CIA official. Miller was subpoenaed to testify about sources she spoke to while reporting on Wilson, though she never published anything on the subject...
...last year's national tour with Gerling, Decoder Ring played with 16-mm film projectors on stage, beaming out images of oceans and industrial landscapes. "If a picture can tell a thousand words," says FitzGerald, "we have quite lyrically dense songs." Just don't try singing them. Like the mystery rings found in '70s cereal boxes, "We send out messages, but it's for you to decode what they are," FitzGerald says. "It's a postmodern sort of thing - code, decode, recode." The sound is music to Heidi's ears...