U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Did Time Intentionally Deceive its Readers in Plame Case?"

U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Did Time Intentionally Deceive its Readers in Plame Case?": "Did Time Intentionally Deceive its Readers in Plame Case?
8/29/2005 1:39:00 PM



To: National Desk
Contact: Melissa Salmanowitz of Media Matters for America, 202-756-4109 or MSalmanowitz@mediamatters.org; Web: http://www.mediamatters.org
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- For some time, the central mystery in the Valerie Plame saga was which members of the White House staff leaked the undercover CIA operative's identity to reporters. Although there are still many unanswered questions, at least part of the mystery has been solved: Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper has testified that he was told about Plame by White House senior adviser Karl Rove and I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Yet while Cooper and his editors at Time spent two years keeping Rove and Libby's -- and their own -- role a secret, they published articles that reported, without challenge, a statement from the White House that they knew to be false." (more... click on link above)

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush bypasses Senate to install neo-con at UN

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush bypasses Senate to install neo-con at UN: "Bush bypasses Senate to install neo-con at UN

James Sturcke and agencies
Monday August 1, 2005

The US president, George Bush, today bypassed the senate and installed the controversial neo-conservative John Bolton as ambassador to the UN.

Mr Bush took advantage of his power to fill vacancies without senate approval while Congress is in recess. Under the constitution, Mr Bolton's recess appointment during the senators' August break will last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007." (more... click on link above)