By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “not very surprising”, Dick Cheney was fuming when President Bush refused to pardon vice presidential aide I “Scooter” Libby after he was convicted of lying in the leak investigation into the identity of CIA spy Valerie Plalme. Appearing in an interview on NBC’s Today Show, said ex-…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service relying on a psychic? That’s the claim in a new book by Ronald Kessler “In The President’s Secret Service”. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column by Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts reports that the Secret Service once changed a motorcade route for President George H.W. Bush in 1992…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Diane Humetewa, the nation’s first female Native American U.S. Attorney, will step down Aug. 2, the Phoenix Business Journal reported. The move comes as no surprise since Dennis Burke has already been tapped as her replacement. Humetewa, a member of the Hopi Indian Tribe, began serving in December 2007. At the…
photo-stanford.edu Saddam Hussein was the master of illusion. With all the intelligence the world had, he still was able to give everyone, including the U.S., the impression he had weapons of mass destruction. While captive, he let down his guard while talking to FBI agent George Pero, who even gave Hussein some of his mother’s…
