“[Chris] Matthews was blunt: ‘I just got off the phone with Karl Rove. He says and I quote,  “Wilson’s wife is fair game.”’” But now the game has changed. With the CIA leak investigation focused squarely on Karl Rove, this first paragraph of Wilson’s book, originally published in 2004,  reads today like a damning prediction of what was to come in the criminal investigation of the outing of a CIA operative—by the architect of the Bush administration and Republican domination of Congress and the courts.
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“This is a riveting and all-engaging book. Not only does it provide context to yesterday's headlines, and perhaps tomorrow's, about the Iraq war and about our politics of personal destruction, but former Ambassador Joseph Wilson also tells captivating stories from his life as a foreign service officer with a long career fostering the development of African democracies, and gives us a behind-the-scenes blow-by-blow of the run-up to the 1991 Persian Gulf war.... Remarkably, Bush's White House continues to attack [Wilson].... They should understand that they have picked a fight with the wrong fellow.”
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Rove Testifies Again in CIA Leak Probe

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Focus of CIA Leak Probe Appears to Widen

Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2005


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National Journal, October 11, 2005


Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa?

Newsweek, August 11, 2005


Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity Takes New Turn

New York TImes, July 28, 2005


Prosecutor in CIA Leak Case Casting a Wide Net

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Ex-Aide on Periphery of Leak Inquiry

New York TImes, July 27, 2005


Operation Coverup

LA Times, July 27, 2005


Plame's Identiy Marked as Secret Memo Central To Probe Of Leak Was Written By State Dept. Analyst

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