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If special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald delivers indictments of a few functionaries of the vice president’s office or the White House, we are likely to have on our hands a constitutional crisis. The evidence of widespread wrongdoing and conspiracy is before every American with a cheap laptop and a cable television subscription. And we do not have the same powers of subpoena granted to Fitzgerald. We know, however, based upon what we have read and seen and heard that someone created fake documents related to Niger and Iraq and used them as a false pretense to launch America into an invasion...

It was just too convenient to have all the long awaited "missing documents" and a player in Texas politics come together to "confirm" what the Democrats have been trying to "prove" for a long time. How did Barnes and the forged memos make it to the nicely packaged hit piece reported by Dan Rather on 60 Minutes II? The following is an attempt to layout the origin and subsequent events that bring us to the "revelations" reported by Dan Rather. Moore first challenged Bush about guard records in 1994JAMES C. MOORE - Author and Former CBS affiliate employee, James C....

When historians come to write the history of American politics in the early 21st century, they will have far, less to say about the ostensible points of difference between the two major parties — the war in Iraq, taxes on the rich, the health care "crisis," the health of the economy — than they will about the style and tone of election campaigning. After all, that’s what the candidates themselves prefer to talk about.We are well and truly into the era of the meta-election, in which the only issue of the campaign that matters is how each side is conducting...