Tim Russert

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  • Court filings: Russert kept Libby secrets to protect his own reputation

    NBC News journalist resisted testifying in the Plame case even after Scooter Libby freed him to do so.
    By Tim Grieve January 10, 2006

  • Rove's lawyer rolls the dice

    In a highly unusual tactic, Robert Luskin is using his own conversation with a reporter to try to exonerate Karl Rove. But the move could backfire.
    By Michael Scherer December 15, 2005

  • Lewis Libby's "some other dude did it" defense

    Bob Woodward's revelation won't help Libby -- and it only plunges the Bush administration deeper into the ethical mud.
    By Elizabeth de la Vega November 19, 2005

  • Cheney on trial

    Even if the vice president himself is not indicted, imagine the questions he might be asked, under oath, in Libby's case.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 10, 2005

  • The indictment: Libby lied to investigators and to the grand jury

    Patrick Fitzgerald says that Libby repeatedly mischaracterized his conversations with reporters.
    By Tim Grieve October 28, 2005

  • As the end draws near, Plame theories diverge

    The coverup? The crime? Cheney? Rove? Libby? Nobody knows but Patrick Fitzgerald, and he's not talking -- yet.
    By Tim Grieve October 21, 2005

  • Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!

    Why did it take more than a month for the U.S. press to report on the serious revelations in the Downing Street memo?
    By Eric Boehlert June 9, 2005

  • Making Mehlman more comfortable

    Tim Russert lets RNC chair Ken Mehlman dodge the Downing Street memo, blame the deficit on 9/11, and "respectfully disagree" with criticism from his own party.
    By Arianna Huffington June 7, 2005

  • The Pinocchio presidency

    A former diplomat says it's time to blow the whistle on the Bush administration's blatant lies.
    By Joe Wilson March 16, 2004

  • War, the excuse for everything

    As the transcript of Tim Russert's interview with Bush shows, it's not clear that even the war president knows what war we're fighting.
    By Robert Scheer February 11, 2004

  • George W. Bush, the doubleplusgood doublespeaker!

    In his interview on "Meet the Press," the president proved he has mastered the Orwellian art of duckspeak.
    By Christopher Ketcham February 10, 2004

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    On Sunday, NBC's Tim Russert is scheduled to interview the president. Here are five questions he'll definitely want to ask.
    February 5, 2004

  • My big fat mea culpa

    I haven't decided to vote for Howard Dean, but after 10 days watching his campaign, I promise never to say he's unelectable again.
    By Joan Walsh August 11, 2003

  • Goofus Al and Gallant George

    In 2000, the media hounded Al Gore over alleged minor exaggerations. So why does it give Bush a pass when he doesn't tell the truth about life-and-death matters like Iraq and tax policies?
    By Eric Boehlert July 1, 2003

  • Imagination unleashed in all its perverse glory

    The Web: Let the Puritans figure out how to jam their mealy corks into the dike!
    By Camille Paglia April 5, 2000

  • Are we excited yet?

    In case all that talk about entrance polls and exit polls wasn't enough to get you lathered up, our man probes the inner secrets of TV on the caucuses.
    By Sean Elder January 26, 2000

  • Turmoil at "This Week"

    Fear of Tim Russert pushed ABC News to fire William Kristol.
    By Sean Elder January 6, 2000

  • Shave me

    Sharon Stone's close shaves with dairy; Dubya gets 2-D for "King of the Hill"; Christina Ricci, not fat; and ... Porn again? Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez bring the Mitchell brothers to the screen in "Rated X."
    By Amy Reiter November 16, 1999

  • Bobbing for Teamsters

    Boating magazine offers a reward for extracting Jimmy Hoffa from a body of water. Plus: James Hewitt may be an officer, but he ain't no gentleman.
    By Amy Reiter October 19, 1999

  • The Amazon.com primary

    Was Buchanan trying to seduce readers, not just voters, with his latest TV splash?
    By Anthony York September 15, 1999

  • Starr dust, pundit bust

    Steve Erickson on why Kenneth Starr will crash and burn on Thursday
    By Steve Erickson November 18, 1998

  • Gone with the windbags

    The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
    By Gary Kamiya November 5, 1998

  • Gone with the windbags

    The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
    By Gary Kamiya November 5, 1998

  • Aging hormones

    Clinton's raging hormones offend the aging Beltway Catholic press corps.
    By Mollie Dickenson August 25, 1998

  • All the president's guards

    A new and damaging leak about Clinton's Secret Service detail re-ignites the firestorm enveloping Kenneth Starr and the White House.
    By Jonathan Broder July 16, 1998
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