Dick Cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI that he doesn’t know who leaked the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame according to a transcript (pdf) given, by court order, to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility an Ethics in Washington (CREW). Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, now live in Santa [...]

Back in the bad old Bush-Cheney days, Code Pink activists were considered heroines for their disruptive protests against the war. Now, in the more enlightened Age of Obama, conservatives are protesting the attempt to ram a 1,018-page bill through Congress before all of its potential ramifications and unintended consequences can be considered.

When asked to name the “main person who speaks for the Republican Party today,” 47 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents could not come up with a single name, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll released Wednesday.
Eighteen percent of Democrats, on the other hand, said Rush Limbaugh speaks for Republicans. 

Give Bobby Jindal credit for temerity; with Dick Cheney only weeks out of power, the Louisiana governor called for “ethical and transparent” government. Here not even Molly Ivins can make me smile.

Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn is in talks to join Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts in “Fair Game,” a movie about the “drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson,” according to Variety.
Plame Wilson and her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are currently Santa Fe residents.

Carlsbad may be the new site of a nuclear facility within the distant near future, reports the Carlsbad Current-Argus. Supporters suggest this move would make Carlsbad a leader in the nuclear energy industry, although many of the kinks need to be worked out — such as finding the land and not stepping on the toes [...]

Barack Obama says he will be in Oxford, Miss., tonight, but as of early this morning John McCain remained adamant he would not participate in what would be the first presidential debate of the campaign unless Congress and the Bush administration reach consensus on a $700 billion financial industry bailout, ABC News reports.
 
Meanwhile, the network [...]