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PlameGate is So Yesterday

…to intentionally expose a top secret CIA agent in order to damage a whistle-blower and intimidate others. Now this story is about whether Karl Rove answered a question from a…

The Estate Tax and the Family Farm

…15%. That’s how I got the $40 million. If the appraiser does not fear the IRS agent, maybe he uses a 20% discount rate and then takes his customary haircut…

Respect Regained

…casting me in this piece of shit,” she said as she dragged her agent Via The Poor Man. And now, back to our regularly scheduled economics coverage — at least,…

…me, are disquieting. “The intelligence community made all kinds of errors and handled things sloppily,” he said. The problems range from a lack of quality control to different agencies’ reporting…

…saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI agents, a police source told The Associated Press. Police found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner…

…seeks records from White House regarding CIA agent: “NEW YORK (AP) _ A federal grand jury that is probing the leak of a CIA officer’s identity has subpoenaed the records…

…the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s identity, sources said today. The probe into the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name to a columnist will be overseen by U.S….

…an absolute must-read. Here’s a sample from a former CIA agent [significant snipping follows; see CalPundit’s post for the full exchange]: She has been undercover for three decades, she is…

…Daily Show guest is none other that Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who first outed the SOTU deception and whose wife was apparently outed as a CIA agent in return by the…