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...Paperino? (Italian for Donald Duck). But Piaggio was not satisfied with the design, so he asked Corradino D'Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis with a front fork modeled to look like landing gear. When Piaggio saw the first one in 1946, he exclaimed, ?Sembra una vespa! [It looks like a wasp...
...Scooter's Fate The indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's aide Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice [Nov. 7] was the first breach in the protective wall of lies and deception that allowed the Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq. Now that the wall has been broken in one place, the truth will come flooding through. In a democracy, citizens are guilty of the sins of their leaders because voters chose them. We cannot pretend we are blameless. We elected them, and we are just as guilty as they...
...Colorado, U.S. The democrats, liberals and their groupies desperately want to discredit the Bush Administration. So all causes, including Iraq, are exploitable for that purpose. But to conclude that most people no longer trust the President is wrong. Americans twice chose to elect Bush. Barbara Schaaf Hollister, Missouri, U.S. Scooter's Fate the indictment of vice president dick Cheney's aide Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice [Nov. 7] was the first breach in the protective wall of lies and deception that has allowed the Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq...
...editor a conversation about Plame he had with an administration official in June 2003, and for publicly marginalizing the investigation's importance as recently as late October. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald empanelled a new grand jury to either revisit charges on former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby or perhaps seek new indictments. Karl Rove remains under investigation...
Until now, the definitive account of the leak case was the one offered by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald last month when he announced the indictment of vice-presidential chief of staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. New York Times reporter Judith Miller told Fitzgerald's grand jury that Libby told her about Plame, the wife of Joseph Wilson, an outspoken critic of the Administration, as early as June 23, 2003. But last week Woodward introduced another mystery leaker who had identified the CIA connection of Wilson's wife even earlier, in mid-June...