james larson

Readers fascinated by politics and the law will want to pick up this book, which is about the federal case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in the investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Writers Jeff Lomonaco and Murray Waas set the scene nicely. The bulk of the book is composed of trial testimony from various witnesses. “Slowly but surely…Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush contrived his bogus case for war in Iraq.”-- Washington Post “Murray Waas is pretty impressive….he just keeps whaling away with discrete fact after discrete fact until, finally, he sinks the sucker.“— Columbia Journalism Review “Murray Waas is getting his day in the sun…The freelance investigative reporter has racked up a series of scoops. He’s been cited by New York Times columnist Frank Rich.”-- Washington Post columnist