The former press secretary's testimony about Valerie Plame is valuable, but only the press can uncover whether Bush and Cheney lied to investigators.
By Joe Conason Jun 21, 2008
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The former White House press secretary argues the less wealthy should pay more in income tax, but his case relies on some statistical games.
By Alex Koppelman
April 13, 2009
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Of course the White House couldn't see the revealing "What Happened" coming. It was McClellan's job as press secretary to conceal himself.
By Louis Bayard
May 30, 2008
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Former press secretary Scott McClellan says someone in the Bush administration made him spread "false information" about Plame-gate to the press. Time for Congress to ask tough questions.
By Joe Conason
November 21, 2007
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Freedom's Watch, the former press secretary's new pro-Iraq war group, has little to do with veterans and everything to do with politics.
By Joe Conason
August 24, 2007
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Unsurprisingly, as they continue to push back against the former White House press secretary's memoir, conservatives are complaining about liberal slant.
By Alex Koppelman
May 28, 2008
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Bush links Iraq to WWII, Ari Fleischer comes out of hiding and Republicans are pushing Allawi again.
By Tim Grieve
August 23, 2007
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On "Hardball" he doesn't know the name of the Iraq veteran whose story he's using to back the war.
By Joan Walsh
August 22, 2007
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The former White House flack, who was almost always wrong about Iraq, is enlisting -- for an ad campaign designed to support the surge.
By Joan Walsh
August 22, 2007
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Why not start with releasing the transcripts of Bush and Cheney's interviews with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald?
By Joe Conason
July 13, 2007
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In the courtroom, I watched Libby's lawyers grill Bob Woodward and Robert Novak, trying and failing to obscure the charges against the vice president's man.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 15, 2007
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FBI agent's testimony puts Libby's story squarely in conflict with the testimony of Bush's former press secretary.
By Tim Grieve
February 1, 2007
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Fleischer testified that he leaked to reporters. One of the reporters says it's not so.
By Tim Grieve
January 30, 2007
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If you'd spent nearly three years defending George W. Bush, you'd be pretty good on cross-examination, too.
By Tim Grieve
January 29, 2007
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"Like a lot of things I said to the press, it had no impact."
By Tim Grieve
January 29, 2007
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The former White House press secretary contradicts Libby's claim that he first learned about Joe Wilson's wife from Tim Russert.
By Tim Grieve
January 29, 2007
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Libby's defense team reveals that Bush's former press secretary demanded immunity before testifying.
By Alex Koppelman
January 23, 2007
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In a court filing, Libby's lawyers suggest that everyone's out to get him.
By Tim Grieve
March 20, 2006
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The prosecutor's press release details a long string of episodes in which the vice president's aide gathered -- and shared -- information about the former ambassador.
By Tim Grieve
October 28, 2005
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At the Bush White House, it's never "time for politics."
By T.G.
September 7, 2005
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The Wall Street Journal says notations on a State Department memo should have put readers on notice that they shouldn't share its contents.
By Tim Grieve
July 19, 2005
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A source close to the investigation says Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be focused on perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators.
By Tim Grieve
July 19, 2005
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Two years ago, the White House said that "the president knows" that Karl Rove wasn't involved in the Valerie Plame leak. Now Bush says he doesn't know all the facts. Why not?
By Tim Grieve
July 18, 2005
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If Karl Rove was Bob Novak's second source on the Plame story, there had to have been a first. Here's how the dots connect on one candidate.
By Tim Grieve
July 15, 2005
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The former Bush White House press secretary's memoir is long on praise for his boss and criticism of the "liberal" media, and short on revelations.
By Eric Boehlert
March 14, 2005
The Scott McClellan sideshow
Lies, damn lies and Ari Fleischer
Scott McClellan comes clean
Did Bush ask Scott McClellan to lie -- or didn't he?
Ari Fleischer's misleading message
Ari Fleischer: It gets worse
It's finally time for Bush to answer questions about Libby
Libby's cynical defense
Fleischer: Plame news was a "so what" for reporters
Fleischer: Libby told me about Plame "on the q.t."
Ari Fleischer: Still saying nothing after all these years
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