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There must be something about midnight. Because sometime between 11 PM and 3 AM, Hillary Clinton is transformed from a sleepy sexagenarian who can't keep her facts straight into a bold Commander-in-Chief dealing decisively with the crisis of the moment. We all know about Hillary's 3 AM mastery. As for 11 PM, Bill Clinton went on the campaign trail in Indiana yesterday and chalked up his wife's problems with the truth of Tuzla to the senior moments that afflict people of her age at that time of night. Story Continues Below Ad ↓ Morning Joe has been having an absolute...

She stood alone in the sodden field on the outskirts of Paris, her fashionable ankle boots firmly planted in the mud churned up by the cavalry who drilled there. No, she would not be tied to the stake, she told her executioners politely. And nor would she allow them to blindfold her. She faced the barrels of the firing squad without flinching. Earlier, at 5am, they had woken her in her filthy cell in the Prison de Saint-Lazare to tell her this was the day she would die. She dressed in her best - stockings, a low-cut blouse under a...

Once you’ve seen it, you cannot forget the crematorium at Dachau, the concentration camp where thousands of people were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War Two. I saw it five decades after the war had ended. Time had done nothing to obliterate the horror of a place where everything from the cramped quarters to the furnaces had been designed to inflict suffering and death on people with an inhuman efficiency. At that time, the legend of Noor Inayat Khan had been forgotten; the Indians who visited Dachau usually missed the plaque to her memory: “A la memoire de Noor...

The central figure in the CIA leak scandal, Valerie Plame, is now shopping a book proposal, The New York Times reports Thursday. Naturally, this comes by way of a leak--but this time not from Robert Novak or Scooter Libby. It comes from what he Times calls "two people familiar with the project." It adds: "Both people were granted anonymity because their publishing companies have signed nondisclosure agreements about the content of the proposal." No details were available about the content. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, wrote a book himself, published last year. Plame, who was outed as a CIA operative by...

Excerpt:"She did not leak any classified information, and she did not have access to the information apparently attributed to her by some government officials," said Washington lawyer Ty Cobb, who is representing veteran CIA analyst Mary McCarthy. Government officials have linked her to the Post's story about the CIA's covert sites in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, used to hold terror suspects. The disclosure of the facilities caused an international clamor last fall because of the legal and ethical issues they raised. McCarthy was fired on Thursday for knowingly disclosing classified information. But Cobb said she hopes to find a way...

What do you call someone who, in violation of her oath, reveals government secrets to a reporter, who then prints them and exposes a clandestine operation designed to get information from suspected terrorists that could save American lives? Here is what one dictionary says about that word: "One who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty." The word so defined is traitor. The Central Intelligence Agency fired an intelligence officer after determining she leaked classified information to a Washington Post reporter about secret overseas prisons used for interrogating suspected terrorists. News reports say the fired employee...

2008 Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton already has a campaign staff that dwarfs the size of Sen. John McCain's staff, who's leading the pack for the GOP presidential nomination. But while Clinton denies that she's thinking beyond her Senate reelection this fall, the New York Post reports that "her political machine is so massive that it's more than four times" as big as Team McCain. On the other hand, the Arizona Republican relies on just five staffers and a half-dozen consulting firms spread between his campaign and his Straight Talk America PAC, the paper says. Mrs. Clinton's 20 troops...

WASHINGTON, July 1 - For nearly two years, the investigation into the leak of a covert C.I.A. officer's name has unfolded clamorously in the nation's capital, with partisan brawling on talk shows, prosecutors interviewing President Bush and top White House officials, and the imminent prospect that reporters could go to jail for contempt of court.

Look at his face... you can see for yourself, this attempt to eliminate Strom Thurmond was nearly a success!! U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, R-SC, shares a laugh with Meg Gregory, (L) and Rainey Chancellor, staff assistants to Senator Trent Lott (R), R-MS, at Lott's office on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 24, 2002. Thurmond, who will turn 100-years-old in December, was being recognized by Lott and Majority Leader Tom Daschle (not pictured) for Thurmond's 48 years in the Congress. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang Tue Sep 24, 5:12 PM ET That last photo is a riot.