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Scootergate: how the White House messed things up.

National Review

| April 02, 2007 | York, Byron | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ON January 24, a man named Craig Schmall took the stand in the perjury-and-obstruction trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Schmall works for the CIA; in 2002 and 2003, he conducted the daily intelligence briefing for both Vice President Dick Cheney and Libby, then the VP's chief of staff. In his testimony, Schmall had a hard time remembering much of what went on in those briefings--he explained that he had outlined dozens of threats to national security each day and that, in retrospect, they all tended to blur together. But Schmall remembered one moment quite specifically.

It happened in June 2003. In the preceding year, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, ...

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