The United States v. I. Lewis Libby - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402752598 ISBN 13: 9781402752599

Publisher: Union Square Press, 2007

Synopsis

Washington scandals come and go, but the one surrounding the investigation into the leaking of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity—now in its fourth year—has had unprecedented staying power. In October 2005, when I. Lewis Libby was indicted on five felony counts of making false statements to the FBI, perjury, and obstruction of justice, his trial became the latest chapter in the saga.
Murray Waas, one of today’s finest investigative journalists, has edited and assembled this instant book that covers the trial from start to finish. He combines the trial transcript, pivotal testimony from key witnesses, and his own original, incisive reporting and an over-arching introductory essay. The subject is certainly one with which Waas is intimately familiar: he’s done groundbreaking work for the National Journal covering the Plame investigation, as well as the Bush Administration’s use (and misuse) of pre-war intelligence. No one is better qualified, or has done more, to inform the public of these shrouded events than Waas.
Like the published reports from the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group, this definitive study is sure to become one of the most significant political documents of this Bush era.

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Like the published reports from the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group, this definitive study is sure to become one of the most significant political documents of this Bush era. Murray Waas is an investigative journalist who has written more than 25 articles on the CIA leak case for the National Journal in the past 18 months. His work has been published by the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and The New Yorker.

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Vice President Cheney and...“Scooter” Libby...decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction...Had the withheld information been turned over...it likely would have shifted a portion of the blame away from the intelligence agencies to the Bush administration.
   — Murray Waas, in the National Journal, Oct. 27, 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Union Square Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1402752598
• ISBN 13: 9781402752599
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Waas Murray