Mike Polanco

(Welcome to FDL Book Salon, where today we are privileged to have Mike Polanco and Murray Waas online with us to discuss their book, The Unived States v. I. Lewis Libby. The Salon today is being introduced by Mike Polanco, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He became interested in the CIA leak investigation via his interest in how democracies go to war, especially how wars – and the Iraq war in particular – are justified in public debate.)

On behalf of Murray Waas and myself, I’d like to thank the entire Firedoglake crew for the opportunity to participate in the Book Salon.

The principal aim of the United States v. I. Lewis Libby is to present an accurate and accessible a record as possible of the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s trial on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury arising from his and others’ role in blowing the cover of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. The book, especially the portions written by Murray Waas,

It is also an extraordinary portrait of the Bush administration at that moment of its history.