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On April 30, 2004 Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s book “The Politics of Truth” will be released. Wilson has been an opponent to the Iraq war, having proposed instead continued UN sanctions and inspections in a “containment” strategy. But his fame first derives from his well-known July 6, 2003 New York Times editorial piece “What I Didn’t Find in Africa”. Second, from the media exposure of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA employee connected to studying proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In media reports Wilson is usually introduced as the person who disproved President Bush’s State of the Union speech...

PART 2 OF 3. The Hunter Biden Files Hunter Biden and his business partners were involved in discussions about possible deals in dozens of foreign countries, often corrupt backwaters, at times invoking official channels like ambassadors, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. While most attention has focused on Ukraine, where a gas company paid the now-president’s son tens of thousands of dollars a month while he was in deep crack addiction, and China, Hunter and his partners at a consultancy called Rosemont Seneca were eager to do business in a vast array of other places. The map below highlights...

TOPEKA - A consumer group is asking Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to explain whether her administration tried to influence a decision on a request to develop wind energy or set electricity rates. David Springe, attorney for the Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board, said he is not alleging any wrongdoing by Sebelius in Westar Energy Inc.'s request to the Kansas Corporation Commission for a rate increase to build the largest wind-generated electricity program in the state. But Springe said an internal e-mail from Westar and statements made by Sebelius and others demands answers. Westar's CEO Jim Haines wrote other utility executives in December...

The Associated Press Westar Energy Inc.'s top executive and the president of a Topeka bank were indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren announced today. David Wittig, Western's chairman, president and chief executive officer, faces four counts of submitting false entries, books, reports or statements to a federally insured bank; one count of conspiracy and one count of money laundering. The indictment also alleges in a separate count that the government is owed $1.5 million because of the alleged actions.There was no indication that the indictment involved Westar's business matters. Westar is the...