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The wife of disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham felt deceived about the extent of her now-estranged husband's corruption, she said in her first public interview since the scandal broke last year. Nancy Cunningham told The New Republic magazine that she didn't question junkets paid by defense contractors because other senior congressional figures, including Speaker Dennis Hastert, joined in. "How can it be illegal or unethical if the most important man in Congress is doing it?" she asked interviewer Kitty Kelley, the celebrity biographer. Duke Cunningham, who held seats on powerful House intelligence and appropriations committees, resigned from Congress last...

The Romanian hacker whose illegal exploits first exposed Hillary Clinton’s use of a non-governmental e-mail system is set to waive extradition later this month so he can face trial in the United States on a nine-count felony indictment. Known as “Guccifer,” hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, 43, is scheduled for a February 17 extradition hearing in Romania, where he has been jailed since his arrest in January 2014. Lazar is serving a four-year sentence for hacking into the e-mail accounts of several public figures in Romania, including the head of the country’s intelligence service. In a phone interview from a Bucharest...

James Vanderbilt's Truth, the high-profile movie chronicling the scandal that derailed Dan Rather's career, has gotten the greenlight to begin shooting this fall. Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment will finance the movie, starring Robert Redford as the iconic news anchor and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, Rather's producer. At the same time, FilmNation has come aboard to represent international rights and will pre-sell the project to foreign buyers at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night (based on the cast, it's sure to whet appetites). Mythology Entertainment is the driving force behind Truth, which was...

Be kind to Bob Shrum. Perhaps the 68-year old is suffering from the not-so-early-onset of some dread memory-loss syndrome. How else to explain his suggestion on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show this evening that the National Restaurant Association's settlement for a relatively modest sum, in today's litigious world, proves that Herman Cain must have done something wrong? Does the failed presidential campaign consultant's support of Bill Clinton, despite his much larger, $850,000 settlement with Paula Jones while "adamantly denying" her claims, fire any synapses in Shrum's cerebrum? View the video here.

An unauthorized tell-all biography of media mogul Oprah Winfrey contains details so shocking, the author claims she has been blackballed from appearing on most major media outlets. Kitty Kelley, famous for her unauthorized biographies of American icons including Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy Reagan, is back at it again with her book, “Oprah.” And Kelley says the salacious details -- from Winfrey’s "concocted" stories about childhood poverty and abuse to tales of secret lesbian affairs -- could do so much damage to the talk-show host’s image that her high-powered media pals, fearing alienation, don’t want to come anywhere near...

Kelley is generally thought of as an "Uh-oh" writer. That is, when she announces she is writing a book about X, the response is "Uh-oh," usually on the part of the subject. For the rest of us, the "Uh-oh" signifies: "This is gonna be good. It may be down and dirty, but it will be true, and it will be good." If there is hidden history to be gotten, Kelley will get it. Some people belittle her work as muckraking that is perhaps fanciful, if not far-fetched, but that is because they can’t believe that there are facts about a...

In an ever-shrinking news cycle and political memory to match, I just thought I'd provide a little link to a very controversial book that was being released just before the election, four short years ago. Anyone remember 'The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty'? Well, not necessarily, that anyone remembers, since so few people bought the scandal monger's tripe.Ann will be fine, but NBC would do well to remember how much time it found for Kitty Kelly's controversy.

VIDEO SHOWING BUSH AT CAMP DAVID IN 1989

KITTY KEELY'S BOOK ON WALMART'S WEB PAGE, BUT NO UNFIT FOR COMMAND? Despite being the No.1 nonfiction seller for more than five weeks, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth book UNFIT FOR COMMAND is nowhere in Walmart's - top 50 books, I mean nowhere.Contact your local store and complain that you wanted to buy the book but it's not in their website.Or send them a message to:Contact Us: Online Feedback Form.or Questions or concerns?

KITTY Kelley — the author of "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Family" (Doubleday) — has had a credibility problem since her very first biography, about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, came out in 1978. "She's totally irresponsible," Lyle Stuart, the publisher of "Jackie Oh!" told PAGE SIX. "That's why I wouldn't publish her second book, on Liz Taylor." [snip] The publisher said Kelley has been using the same tricks her whole career. Stuart recalls doing heavy editing on "Jackie Oh!" "I had to take a ton of stuff out of the book. I took out about 30 things she...

The Republican National Committee suggests that scandal-skewed biographer Kitty Kelley had both partisan and personal reasons for writing a book that supposedly tells the "real" story of the Bush dynasty. On Monday, Kelley told NBC's "Today" show that she contributes to Republicans as well as Democrats - but the Republican National Committee says it's mostly the latter. "Kelley forgot to mention she's been a registered Democrat since 1983," the RNC said in a press release. In the "Today" show interview, Kelley said she votes for both Republicans and Democrats and "used to give money to both." She said she believed...

Well as expected, Kitty Litter’s work has become #1 on Amazon.com knocking off Unfit for Command. What surprised me is that the Seymour Hersh book moved up to Number 2 or Number 4 depending on which page you look. It was ranked as number 659 just a little more than a day ago. I’m assuming the discrepancy in ranking is due to that fact that one page isn’t updated yet. While not totally expected as it has been out for a while, Unfit for Command fell sharply down to 7th or 8th place again depending on which page you decide...

Kitty Kelley Dishes on the Bush Family Mon Sep 13, 5:40 PM ET HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK - When Kitty Kelley, the famously unauthorized biographer of the famous, sits down for an interview, she likes to get personal. She sets her chair next to yours, leans forward when speaking and occasionally underlines an argument with a tap on the knee. And call her Kitty, please. Not Ms. Kelley. Author of gossipy, controversial best sellers about Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra, the 62-year-old Kelley has spent the past three and a half years getting as close as she...

I was listening to Chris Core's show on WMAL in Washington D.C. driving home from work. They were discussing Kitty Kelly's allegations. Someone called up and swore her husband had attended Alcoholics Anonymous with George Bush in Georgetown when his father was President, and that he had been addicted to alcohol and cocaine. Core is a strange guy who generally seems to have a lot of common sense and is probably going to vote for Bush, but at the same time seems to be unable to believe people are flat out lying. He seemed to be taking the call, which...

According to Forbes, General Electric ranks 2nd among the top 100 companies. General Electric in case you didn't know, owns NBC and MSNBC. NBC is part of the MSM network of who wants to unsit President George Bush. On General Electric's website the Chairman of The Board and Chief Executive officer has the following statementThe "Spirit & The Letter" is the GE integrity policy, and each GE employee signs a pledge to adhere to it when they join the company. Jeffrey R. Immelt, 48, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE. Mr. Immelt, the 9th...

Newsweek accused of breaking deal By Hillel Italie, Associated Press September 13, 2004 NEW YORK - The publisher of Kitty Kelley's controversial new biography of the Bush family has accused Newsweek of allegedly violating a pre-publication agreement and said the magazine owes "substantial damages." "We demand public acknowledgment and additional remedies," Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, said Thursday. Rubin declined to say how much money Doubleday is seeking and whether the publisher will sue. Newsweek spokeswoman Rosanna Maietta said Thursday that the magazine had no comment. Kelley's The Family: The Real Story of the...

According to Forbes, General Electric ranks 2nd among the top 100 companies. General Electric in case you didn't know, owns NBC and MSNBC. NBC is part of the MSM network of who wants to unsit President George Bush. On General Electric's website the Chairman of The Board and Chief Executive officer has the following statementThe "Spirit & The Letter" is the GE integrity policy, and each GE employee signs a pledge to adhere to it when they join the company. Jeffrey R. Immelt, 48, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE. Mr. Immelt, the 9th...

Costco Wholesale, who supports skerry, has the kitty kelly book on sale on the front page of their website.

The new Kitty Kelley book that has the Bush campaign's underwear in a bunch is more catty than explosive. It does claim that President Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David. It does repeat rumors that he arranged an illegal abortion for an ex-girlfriend. And it does accuse First Lady Laura Bush of once being a pothead. But the sourcing for these accusations is thin and there are no other big surprises in Kelley's much anticipated "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." Instead, the 705-page tome obtained by the Daily News chronicles the rise of the GOP's First...

Friday, Sept. 10, 2004 3:30 p.m. EDT Kitty Kelley Bush-Bashing Book Publisher Seeks Damages From Newsweek NEW YORK – The publisher of Kitty Kelley's controversial new biography of the Bush family has accused Newsweek of allegedly violating a pre-publication agreement and said the magazine owed "substantial damages." "We demand public acknowledgment and additional remedies," Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, said Thursday. Rubin declined to say how much money Doubleday was seeking and whether the publisher would sue. Story Continues Below Newsweek spokeswoman Rosanna Maietta said Thursday that the magazine had no comment. Kelley's "The...