scott minor

Readers fascinated by politics and the law will want to pick up this book, which features edited trial transcripts from the federal case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in the investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Authors Jeff Lomonaco and Murray Waas begins with a chronology and an insightful introduction, setting the scene nicely for the trial. The bulk of the book is composed of trial testimony from some minor celebrities among them.“Murray Waas is our Woodward now...publishing the biggest story in town.”—Jay Rosen, PressThink.Org
“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—Howard Kurtz, Washington Post