I see why Rove wants to tell Fitz that Libby was the main leaker to journos.
But what's the point of leaking that Libby heard this from Cheney?
I guess now that I said that, I'm remembering that Rove was fingered at one point as the one who read the NSC memo on Air Force One containing this information, and that he was the one who told Libby.
Am I remembering that right?  Otherwise, I don't see why Rove would bring Cheney into this.  
And I guess the next question is what type of retaliation could be expected from the Libby and Cheney camps.
Whatever it is, it should be FUN.

Posted at October 24, 2005 8:02 PM in response to Who Told Dick Cheney?

<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/03001066
37/qid=1123966697/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-6254017-2508726?v=glanc
e&s=books&n=507846>Soldiers and Ghosts</A> by J. E. Lendon is a wonderful tome that looks at influences of ways of fighting in Classical Antiquity.  It covers important conflagrations with a very nice level of detail and scholarship.
It's two books in one, really, covering separately Greek Warfare and Roman Warfare.  The influence that the Illiad had on Greek ways of war is stunning, and quite non-intuitive at first.
Very interesting thesis, told in a gripping manner.
(The html seems not be working somehow.  This still sucks, I'm afraid to say.) 

Posted at August 13, 2005 2:09 PM in response to Book Recommendation

I can't access Cooper's article without a suscription (and there's no way in hell I'm giving my money to those asses).  What's the gist?
Curious minds want to know.

Posted at July 17, 2005 8:08 AM in response to TIME Marches On

I'm having trouble seeing how this administration, given the statements previously made, can survive without eventually getting rid of Rove.
How does Bush answer to question regarding his assertion that "this administration does not operate in this way", or that whoever did this will be fired.  
He might try to see if he can ride it out, but the press smells blood, and honestly, they are in a very tough spot.
My hunch:  Rove will be out (leave of absence/resign/fired) within a month.  
That, of course, putting aside any further bombshells, and no indictments in between.

Posted at July 12, 2005 8:55 AM in response to Bergen and McCarthy

by J. E. Lendon.  Lendon describes the influences on warfare techniques by the ancients.
Very nice story.  The influence of literature, and of the Illiad in particular, on the Greeks' fighting ways is a beautiful insight.  

Posted at June 8, 2005 7:11 PM in response to History

One thing that was highly frustrating in the run-up to the war was the administration's unerring instinct to act in ways as to minimize their future options.  Choice after choice derived in bridges burned unnecesarily, and in fewer tools in their toolbox.
Coalition building for coalition-building's sake might be pointless, but burning bridges for burning bridges' sake is, well, stupid.

Posted at June 1, 2005 11:12 AM in response to Nuts and Boltons