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...In reproving yet again today, October 14, “the fateful letter that has received much more attention than it deserves,” Fr. Federico Lombardi – together with a substantial army of journalists and prelates – seems to have forgotten that the first to squawk over the news of that confidential act was not a presumed emissary of the signers but the vaticanista who is friendliest with and closest of all to Pope Francis, his frequent guest at Santa Marta and his interviewer many times over: Andrea Tornielli, coordinator of the portal “Vatican Insider.” Tornielli in fact broke the news of the step...

RUSH: Boy, am I glad to be back -- and, folks, have you noticed what happened my first day back? How many Democrats have now quit? How many Democrats? Five or six! Five or six have said, "No mas! No mas!" and there will be more, and we'll talk about that as the program unfolds today. Great to have you with us. Here's the telephone number: 800-282-2882. It has not changed. The e-mail address: ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I really am glad to be back. I want to tell you what happened out in Hawaii, and it's amazing, too. I had this little...

WASHINGTON - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are asking a federal judge not to allow three years of politically charged backstory in the CIA leak case to seep into Libby's perjury trial in January. In new court documents, Fitzgerald argued that he shouldn't have to explain why Libby was charged while others, including the source of the leak, escaped prosecution. Libby said jurors shouldn't hear about New York Times reporter Judith Miller's 85-day jail term for refusing to discuss her conversations with him. The court documents, filed late Monday, are an effort...

INDICTMENT THE HISTORY: ANALYSIS Backstory: The push for war Faulty intelligence in the run-up to invation BY CRAIG GORDON WASHINGTON BUREAU October 29, 2005 WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush's administration did all it could Friday to close the book on I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Don't have any contact with Libby about his indictment, staffers were warned. His security clearance - gone. And no goodbye meeting with the president. Libby "has left the White House, and I do not expect him to return," spokesman Scott McClellan said. If only it were that easy. Far from a clean end to the...