Ari Fleischer - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/ari_fleischer/?source=rss&aim=ari_fleischer en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT The Scott McClellan sideshow By Joe Conason Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/06/21/plame/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/06/21/plame/index.html?source=rss The former press secretary's testimony about Valerie Plame is valuable, but only the press can uncover whether Bush and Cheney lied to investigators. Lies, damn lies and Ari Fleischer By Alex Koppelman Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/13/fleischer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/13/fleischer/index.html?source=rss The former White House press secretary argues the less wealthy should pay more in income tax, but his case relies on some statistical games. Scott McClellan comes clean By Louis Bayard Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/30/scott_mcclellan_press_secretary/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/30/scott_mcclellan_press_secretary/index.html?source=rss Of course the White House couldn't see the revealing "What Happened" coming. It was McClellan's job as press secretary to conceal himself. Did Bush ask Scott McClellan to lie -- or didn't he? By Joe Conason Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/11/21/mcclellan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/11/21/mcclellan/index.html?source=rss 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. Ari Fleischer's misleading message By Joe Conason Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/08/24/fleischer_war/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/08/24/fleischer_war/index.html?source=rss 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. Conservatives see bias in McClellan coverage By Alex Koppelman Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/28/bias_mcclellan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/28/bias_mcclellan/index.html?source=rss Unsurprisingly, as they continue to push back against the former White House press secretary's memoir, conservatives are complaining about liberal slant. Old-school week on Iraq By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/08/23/allawi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/08/23/allawi/index.html?source=rss Bush links Iraq to WWII, Ari Fleischer comes out of hiding and Republicans are pushing Allawi again. Ari Fleischer: It gets worse By Joan Walsh Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/iraq_war/2007/08/22/fleischer_again/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/iraq_war/2007/08/22/fleischer_again/index.html?source=rss On "Hardball" he doesn't know the name of the Iraq veteran whose story he's using to back the war. Ari Fleischer, reporting for duty! By Joan Walsh Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/iraq_war/2007/08/22/fleischer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/iraq_war/2007/08/22/fleischer/index.html?source=rss The former White House flack, who was almost always wrong about Iraq, is enlisting -- for an ad campaign designed to support the surge. It's finally time for Bush to answer questions about Libby By Joe Conason Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/07/13/plame_wilson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/07/13/plame_wilson/index.html?source=rss Why not start with releasing the transcripts of Bush and Cheney's interviews with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald? Libby's cynical defense By Sidney Blumenthal Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/02/15/libby_trial/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/02/15/libby_trial/index.html?source=rss 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. Libby to FBI: I didn't tell Fleischer about Plame By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/02/01/libbyfbi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/02/01/libbyfbi/index.html?source=rss FBI agent's testimony puts Libby's story squarely in conflict with the testimony of Bush's former press secretary. What did Ari Fleischer really say about Valerie Plame? By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/30/libby3/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/30/libby3/index.html?source=rss Fleischer testified that he leaked to reporters. One of the reporters says it's not so. The unflappable Ari Fleischer? By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/29/fleischer3/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/29/fleischer3/index.html?source=rss If you'd spent nearly three years defending George W. Bush, you'd be pretty good on cross-examination, too. Fleischer: Plame news was a "so what" for reporters By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/29/fleischer2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/29/fleischer2/index.html?source=rss "Like a lot of things I said to the press, it had no impact." Fleischer: Libby told me about Plame "on the q.t." By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/29/fleischer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/29/fleischer/index.html?source=rss The former White House press secretary contradicts Libby's claim that he first learned about Joe Wilson's wife from Tim Russert. Ari Fleischer, mob rat? By Alex Koppelman Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/23/fleischer_wells/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/01/23/fleischer_wells/index.html?source=rss Libby's defense team reveals that Bush's former press secretary demanded immunity before testifying. Scooter Libby's conspiracy theory By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/03/20/scooter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/03/20/scooter/index.html?source=rss In a court filing, Libby's lawyers suggest that everyone's out to get him. Was Libby obsessed with Wilson? Fitzgerald seems to think so By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/28/obsession/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/28/obsession/index.html?source=rss 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. Is it time yet? By T.G. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/07/time/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/07/time/index.html?source=rss At the Bush White House, it's never "time for politics." Plame memo made it clear it shouldn't be leaked By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/memo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/memo/index.html?source=rss The Wall Street Journal says notations on a State Department memo should have put readers on notice that they shouldn't share its contents. The circle of Plame gets wider By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/plame1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/19/plame1/index.html?source=rss A source close to the investigation says Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be focused on perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators. The president's accountability moment By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/18/accountability/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/18/accountability/index.html?source=rss 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? Was it Ari Fleischer? By Tim Grieve Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/15/fleischer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/07/15/fleischer/index.html?source=rss 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. Ari Fleischer: Still saying nothing after all these years By Eric Boehlert Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/14/fleischer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/14/fleischer/index.html?source=rss 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.