This reads like a Playbill, outlining each member of the cast and their background in sufficient detail to allow us to watch with interest as the drama unfolds. According to Winkipedia, the author was fired from Salon.com in 2002 under a charge of plagiarism. Again, from Winkipedia: " May 13, 2006, Mr. Leopold reported on the website Truthout.org that Karl Rove had been indicted. The story spread quickly throughout the blogosphere. Rove spokesman Mark Corallo issued a flat denial of Leopold's story, calling it "a complete fabrication". On May 15, Truthout.org Executive Director Marc Ash defended the story, saying they had more than two sources with corroborating information...On May 18, Ash provided another update, saying that ... More »

This report uses the occasion of Scooter Libby's trial (on a somewhat peripheral issue) to give an account of the events surrounding Bush's claim that Iraq was trying to buy African uranium, of efforts to discredit Joseph Wilson who had investigated the claim and the the unmasking of Valerie Plame, his wife, as an undercover CIA agent. This is a relatively detailed account which, while believable, suffers from mixing assertions with documentation.

The trial of "Scooter" Libby is not just about his lies to a Federal Prosecutor; its about a high-level conspiracy to sell the War on Iraq with forged intelligence that reaches into the highest levels of the Bush administration. Leopold, as usual, is careful with his facts, documents his sources, and summarizes a great deal of information.