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...your article on the final days of the Bush White House: I was dismayed by the incomplete retelling of the Scooter Libby-Valerie Plame investigation. A major reason Dick Cheney pushed for the pardon was that he was not the original leaker. That person, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was not even mentioned in your article. No underlying national-security crime was committed by the accidental leak of Plame's name (as demonstrated by the lack of charges), and as such, Libby's perjury was ancillary to the investigation. Gregory Eschbacher, FANWOOD...
...your article on the final days of the Bush White House: I was dismayed by the incomplete retelling of the Scooter Libby - Valerie Plame investigation. A major reason Dick Cheney pushed for the pardon was that he was not the original leaker. That person, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was not even mentioned in your article. No underlying national-security crime was committed by the accidental leak of Plame's name (as demonstrated by the lack of charges), and as such, Libby's perjury was ancillary to the investigation. Gregory Eschbacher, Fanwood...
...Catholicism for him in just these terms. "When you have 2,000 years of intellectual depth surrounding you," he told me on a recent summer morning, "it's comforting." There's also cachet in conservative political circles to being Catholic. Until their deaths in the past year, Father Richard John Neuhaus and National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. presided over an intellectual haven for conservatives put off by Evangelicals who rail against experts and élites...
...Hatch, Richard •persecution complex...
...Richard Marquise, who was the FBI special agent in charge of the U.S. investigation into the bombing, calls the release "very disappointing." In an unusual move, Marquise and his counterpart in Scotland, Stuart Henderson, the retired senior investigating officer for Lockerbie, had written to MacAskill to argue against Al-Megrahi's release, reiterating their belief that the evidence gathered against him was compelling. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and seven senators, including Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, also wrote protest letters to MacAskill. After MacAskill's announcement, the White House put out a statement saying it "deeply regrets...