Karl Rove Should Stay Karl Rove Should Stay
Karl Rove should stay. The White House confirmed on Monday morning that George W. Bush's master strategist will be leaving Bush's side at the end of...
Aug 13, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
Vitter’s Close Call Vitter’s Close Call
Imagine this scenario: A young congressional aide who moonlights for an escort service receives a call from her madam. The woman who owns the service asks h...
Jul 31, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
An Obama Flub at the YouTube Debate? An Obama Flub at the YouTube Debate?
I can see the ad now: Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro, Bashar al-Assad, and Hugo Chavez all strolling into the White House, and a grinning Ba...
Jul 24, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
A Blast from Vitter’s Past A Blast from Vitter’s Past
In the fall of 1998, David Vitter felt compelled to weigh in on the national debate over the possible impeachment of President Bill Clinton for lying about ...
Jul 11, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
Bush Commutes Libby’s Jail Sentence Bush Commutes Libby’s Jail Sentence
It's appropriate. The president who led the nation into a disastrous war in Iraq by peddling false statements and misrepresentations has come to the...
Jul 2, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence
This afternoon, after three appeals court judges turned down Scooter Libby's latest appeal, George W. Bush commuted the convincted felon's sentence, wiping ...
Jul 2, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
Libby Turned Down Again, Getting Closer to Jail Libby Turned Down Again, Getting Closer to Jail
Is Scooter Libby really going to jail now? Today a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, turned down Libby's request to r...
Jul 2, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
Where’s the CIA’s Missing Jewel? Where’s the CIA’s Missing Jewel?
What's the missing jewel? Today, the CIA released its infamous "Family Jewels" file. This is a set of internal memos compiled in the mid-1970s after...
Jun 26, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
SiCKO Is Boffo SiCKO Is Boffo
In 1971, Edgar Kaiser, the son of the founder of Kaiser Permanente, one of the first big HMOs, went to see John Ehrlichman, a top aide to President Nixon, t...
Jun 21, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn
Obama for the Heart, Edwards for the Head?–UPDATED Obama for the Heart, Edwards for the Head?–UPDATED
One spoke to the heart. One spoke to the head. But both presidential candidates had the same mission: to prevent Senator Hillary Clinton from claiming the s...
Jun 19, 2007 / Capital Games / David Corn