PlamePage 1-06-06
Today's News:
Scooter Finds Fellowship at the Hudson Institute (The Washington Post)
By Al Kamen
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , chief of staff and national security adviser to Vice President Cheney until that indictment unpleasantness a few months......
Can You Say "Witness Tampering?"--Firedoglake.com
Today King George announced seventeen -- count 'em seventeen -- ... ...Amongst them -- .. .. Robert Lenhard, who is married to the Viveca Novak, the woman now providing the substantive part of Karl Rove's defense in the Plame matter.
Sidebar issue:
Study Blames Many Iraq Deaths on Body Armor WASHINGTON (AP)
An unreleased Pentagon study of fatal torso wounds to Marines killed in Iraq found that most might have been prevented or minimized if they had been wearing improved body armor. The study last summer by the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner looked at 93 fatal wounds from the start of the war in March 2003 through June 2005 and concluded that 74 of them were bullet or shrapnel wounds to shoulders or areas of the torso not protected by ceramic armor plating.