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...time when the White House is already hurting. Only 21% of Americans thought Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, should be spared, according to recent polls, while around 70% thought he should not. For this unpopular President to show mercy to the convicted staffer of his even more unpopular Vice President would seem the Democrats' ideal end for the affair that began when columnist Robert Novak first wrote that Administration officials had outed Plame to him in interviews. (See TIME's George W. Bush covers...
...Waxman staffer says Ralston's performance in May was "cooperative" and "candid." So where does loyalty to Rove or Abramoff fit in this game? "They're just bosses that she had," says a source familiar with the case. Some Democrats, though, still suspect the cagey Ralston is trying for the ultimate testimonial trifecta: getting immunity, satisfying investigators and protecting Rove...
...track the whereabouts and lawfulness of every non-citizen living in the United States, it can't help his cause when he fails to spot possible crooks on his corporate and campaign letterhead. And Giuliani's opponents wasted no time in circulating news of Ravenel's indictment; one McCain staffer fired off a dispatch within minutes to reporters' e-mail boxes. Anti-Giuliani bloggers swiftly added the Kerik angle...
...embattled Attorney General. "This bill is not dead." It will have to be re-animated fairly soon, though, if there's to be any hope for immigration reform this year. "We kind of need to get this back on track by the July 4th holiday," said one Senate Republican staffer. "Because that would then give the House four weeks to get it through before the August recess ... After that, there's a very short amount of time to complete work on spending bills before the beginning of the new fiscal year [October...
...course, the closer you get to 2008, the issue starts getting politicized more than it already has," the staffer concluded...