Valerie Plame

June 11, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

Leaks and Lies

I once had a long discussion about leaks with Richard Helms, a thoughtful gentleman who steadfastly refused to reveal state secrets even when threatened with imprisonment.  Helms was directo...

August 3, 2011 |

‘Representing’ Al-Qaeda

Bravely entering the lion’s den — delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, “pro bono” lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers — Attorney General Eric...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

The CIA Interrogation Tapes

Remember when this was a real war?

June 13, 2011 |

Press That Shield Back

Reporters already have protection, and they owe the public their testimony … just like the rest of us.

December 16, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Vanity Fair Game

Filmmakers get to take dramatic license. Reporters really shouldn’t. But when it comes to Joseph C. Wilson IV and Valerie Plame, the mainstream media, as much as Hollywood, insist on market...

April 8, 2007 | |

Don’t Investigate Pelosi — Debate Her

Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, we learned from our mistakes? The beleaguered Bush administration has had a dreadful couple of years. Now, for the first time in recent memory, a...

March 14, 2007 |

Breach

Lewis Libby’s lawyers are quietly filing appeals while President Bush privately ponders arguments for and against a pardon. But now is not the time for this controversy to fade away. Now is...

February 26, 2007 | Andrew McCarthy Human Events

Libby Trial Reveals Media Hypocrisy

The newly eventful jury deliberations are grinding ahead in the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Simultaneously, the mainstream media is preparing its post-mortems. Libby, Vic...

February 17, 2007 |

Trial in Error

Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation? Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald charged Vice President Che...

October 13, 2006 | National Review Online

The Culture of Obstruction

Imagine for a moment a public official of the highest order. He was a confidant of the vice president and the president. Entrusted with the most sensitive national defense information, he enjoyed...

August 11, 2006 | National Review Online

Connecticut? This is London Calling

We are reading only about 24 arrests today. If we were already in the heralded antiwar world of Ned Lamont and the war-against-the-war crowd, it could be much different. We could just as easily b...

June 26, 2006 | National Review Online

Lasering in on Leaks

Anger over the leaking of national-defense information by the media may have hit critical mass with the exposure, by the New York Times and other newspapers, of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Pro...

November 20, 2005 |

Fitzgerald’s Day

The two-year criminal investigation into the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee ended with a whimper rather than the bang so obsessively sought by the Bush administrat...

October 23, 2005 |

Phoney Baloney

Miller and Cooper talk the talk, while walking over source confidentiality.

July 31, 2005 |

Arianna Judges Judy

Could Judy Miller have been the White House’s source?

July 17, 2005 |

Did the CIA “Out” Valerie Plame?

What the mainstream media tells the court ... but won't tell you.

July 14, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?

How about the least likely suspect?

July 11, 2004 | Clifford D. May

Our Man in Niger: Exposed and Discredited, Joe Wilson Might Consider Going Back

Joe Wilson's cover has been blown. For the past year, he has claimed to be a truth-teller, a whistleblower, the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy — and most of the media have lapp...

September 28, 2003 | Clifford D. May

Spy Games

It's the top story in the Washington Post this morning as well as in many other media outlets. Who leaked the fact that the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA? What also...