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Former aide blames Bush for leak deceit
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame. "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself."
Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.
The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. More>>
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Candidate's paid leave appears to violate policy
This is just the tip of the iceberg. How about the employee who made over $65k a year who only came to the office once a week, every now and then. He "telecommuted", wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
But rather than accomplish anything people want to ramble about Scoobie, Lumpy, Grumpy, Ivan the terrible, the Dictator Sheriff, used car salesmen, Cynthia Finch, John Werner, Margie Loyd, the Sunshine lawsuit, the ouster lawsuit, and the Showboat.
You know how the magician pulls the rabbit out of the hat? First he gets your attention on the magic wand, while you are transfixed on the wand he uses his other hand to put the rabbit in the hat. All of the crap above is the wand.
You have to learn to watch the "other hand".
These people aren't smarter than us, just more dishonest. More>>
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Christian Camargo comes full circle
It was in the cards. Christian Camargo was somehow predestined to play John Wilkes Booth, the actor who killed President Abraham Lincoln, in the movie “National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets."
“I think [Director] Jon Turteltaub found a similarity between me and the infamous killer," said the 36-year-old actor, “which is ironic because I just finished playing a killer on [the Showtime series] ‘Dexter.'"
The ironies didn't stop there.
“My grandfather was a member of the Players Club in New York, which was in the home of [Booth's] elder brother Edwin and is now an actors' club. So I had already been there and lived around the history of the incident from the periphery."
The grandfather was Mexican-American actor Ralph Camargo, the first of four Camargos — so far — to have made a career in acting. More>>