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This question and answer session with Valerie Plame at the Washington Post is really worth a read.
Plame Wilson was online Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss her book, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which details her CIA training, covert status, experiences, responsibilities, the outing [...]

Where have we gone, America?
On Staged “Terrorist” Attacks and Dictatorship
Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy, Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for [...]

Sheesh, what next?
Charles Babington, The Washington Post:
“In bitingly partisan exchanges yesterday, lawmakers plunged into the dispute over Karl Rove’s hand in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity.”
Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) proposed an amendment aimed at Rove “to deny access to classified information to any federal employee who discloses a covert CIA agent’s [...]

Cozy with the Bush administration, Judith Miller may go to jail to protect their leakers (Rove and whoever is intended eventually to take the fall for his action - wherever will they find another Ollie North?). Normally I would be on the side of journalists to protect their anonymous sources, but in this case it [...]