The Wake-Up Call:
Plame’s ‘Game’, Countrywide Probe

Scandal Sheet
Valerie Plame, whose CIA cover was blown by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Bob Novak, settles scores in her new book “Fair Game”:
She accuses the the Bush administration of “arrogance and intolerance,” says the criticism of her husband was a “dress rehearsal” for the Swift Boat Veterans campaign against John Kerry and says she “felt like I had been been sucker-punched, hard, in the gut” when she read Novak’s now-infamous column revealing her identity.
As for coverage of her case in the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets, she says that she “suddenly understood what it must have felt like to live in the Soviet Union and have only the state propaganda entity, Pravda, as the source of news about the world.”
Finally, Plame insists again that it wasn’t her idea to send her husband to Niger - rather that it was suggested by a CIA colleague.

The cause of death of Charles Riechers, the second-highest-ranking weapons buyer at the Air Force found dead at his home on Sunday, may take weeks. Although local cops in Loudon County, Virginia suspect suicide by pills - there was no gun involved, a sheriff tells Muckraked - the toxicology results and autopsy will take time, says the medical examiner’s office.

Corporate Capers
The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining stock sales of the chief executive of Countrywide Financial, the nation’s largest mortgage lender. The informal inquiry of CEO Angelo R. Mozilo has been under way for a while.

Blogging the Revolution
The murder of crusading Filipino journalist Marlene Garcia-Esperat, who was killed in front of her daughter and two sons in March 2005, is being reinvestigated by the country’s Department of Justice. She wrote extensively about corruption in the Department of Agriculture.

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