Behind Rove's Latest Lies
James C. Moore is a communications consultant living in Austin, Texas and the author of the best-seller, “Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential,” along with two other critical books on the Bush administration. He writes regularly at www.moorethink.com.
As Rove discounts new proof of his influence in the firing of U.S. attorneys, Rove biographer James Moore explains how "Bush's Brain" has manipulated hard evidence for decades.
The lives of Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers, the husband-and-wife team arrested for spying for Cuba, resembled scenes from a romantic thriller. The Daily Beast's guide to the fascinating lives of real-life spy couples-and one of the fictional duos they inspired.
President Obama may be running the country, but recently, players from the Bush administration seem to be getting all the press. From revelations regarding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Biblical briefings to Cheney's role in enhanced interrogation techniques, here's a sampling of what we've learned about them since they left the White House.
Scooter Libby: The Movie
Jeffrey Ressner, a writer based in Los Angeles, has worked for Politico, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and Us Weekly.
Sean Penn just signed on to play Joe Wilson in Fair Game, the movie version of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame's memoir. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Jeffrey Ressner got a hold of the script and shares his juiciest notes.
Push Cheney
Joseph C. Wilson IV served for 23 years in the US Foreign Service, including as Ambassador to Gabon and Sao Tomé and Principe. After publication of his article, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” in the New York Times debunking the Bush administration’s rationale for the Iraq War, his wife’s identity as a covert CIA office was betrayed by senior administration officials. He is also the author of The Politics of Truth.
Joseph C. Wilson IV, who served in the U.S. Foreign Service for 23 years and is married to Valerie Plame, the covert CIA officer unmasked by Bush administration officials, on watching the end of eight years of "radical rule."
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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