Stephen Michael Halper

Readers fascinated by politics and the law will want to buy and read this fascinating book, which is about the federal case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted of obstruction of justice and making false statements in the investigation of the alleged outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Author Murray Waas begins with a detailed chronology of events, and an insightful introduction, skillfully setting the scene for the dramatic and historical trial.

Reviews
“Murray Waas is our Woodward now...publishing the biggest story in town.”—Jay Rosen, PressThink.Org
“Slowly but surely…Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush and his top aides contrived their bogus case for war in Iraq.”—Dan Froomkin, WashingtonPost.com
“Murray Waas is pretty impressive….he just keeps whaling away with discrete fact after discrete fact until, finally, he sinks the sucker.“—Steve Lovelady, 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 columnist