Word: leakings
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Eric Shinseki did assert that more troops were needed, but he retired on schedule in June 2003. Shinseki had clashed with Donald Rumsfeld, though, and a leak from Rumsfeld's allies turned the general into a lame duck 15 months before he hung up his uniform--long before he called for more troops...
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...
...strengthen any case he might bring. And the prosecutor may be seeking to substantiate a Sept. 2003 Washington Post story, which quoted an administration source saying that two top White House officials disclosed Plame's identity to at least six Washington journalists in retribution for Wilson's comments. The leak was "meant purely and simply for revenge," the official said. Fitzgerald might want to learn if those two officials were the same ones who talked to Novak. Each instance of disclosure of Plame's identity would be a separate crime...
...bloggers for a racist remark originally ignored by the big media, would still be Senate majority leader. Blogs played a critical part in the downfall of Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times, in the Jayson Blair scandal. Blogs created a forum where Times insiders could leak and vent, where critics could ridicule and where Raines' editorship could be rattled until it was scuttled by one wayward reporter. The same kind of Web scrutiny added to the forces that brought down the BBC's leadership in the aftermath of a disputed story alleging that Tony Blair...
...opposition and consistently tops opinion surveys, even when his policies are being cluster bombed in the newspapers. The other faces a much harder task. Polls by MORI show that 61% are dissatisfied with him, and only 32% trust him to tell the truth. Old allies have abandoned him; rivals leak venomously to bring him down. Both, of course, are Tony Blair, who won huge majorities for Labour in 1997 and 2001. This time he'll have a tougher race, which informally kicks off at the Labour conference this week. The mother of all his troubles is Iraq. Bigley's misery...