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CHAPTER 5
Center Stage
Evan Thomas 11/6/2008 12:00:00 AM
In midsummer, the Obama campaign's computers were attacked by a virus. The campaign's tech experts spotted it and took standard precautions, such as putting in a firewall. At first, the campaign figured it was a routine "phishing" attack, using common methods. Or so it seemed. In fact, the campaign had been the target of sophisticated foreign cyber-espionage.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Failure To Cooperate
Michael Isikoff 9/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
Karl Rove shows up most nights these days as a commentator on Fox News and offers up political insights in columns for the Wall Street Journal and NEWSWEEK. But when Justice Department investigators tried to ask him about his role in the mass firings of U.S. attorneys, the former White House political chief would say nothing, refusing to be questioned at all.
Closing the Door
Michael Isikoff 7/16/2008 12:00:00 AM
The Bush administration today unveiled a set of novel and controversial legal arguments in refusing to disclose key details about Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Traitor or Truthteller?
Daniel Stone 5/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
Scott McClellan didn't make a lot of new friends this week. While the left lauded the candidness of his memoir "What Happened," many complained that the former White House spokesman should have spoken up sooner. On the right, McClellan has been called a "betrayer" and "opportunist." NEWSWEEK's Daniel Stone spoke with McClellan about the fallout and his plans. Excerpts:
CAMPAIGN 2008
Playing the Spoiler Role?
Sarah Elkins 5/21/2008 12:00:00 AM
At Tuesday night's Libertarian debate, the party's most celebrated presidential candidate wasn't even there. In fact, he isn't even a Libertarian. And yet his name was invoked almost a dozen times in the course of the hourlong debate leading up to this weekend's Libertarian convention.
TERRORISM
Enough Blame for All
Michael Isikoff 2/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
In the summer of 2003, Warren Bass, an investigator for the 9/11 Commission, was digging through highly classified National Security Council documents when he came across a trove of material that startled him. Buried in the files of former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, the documents seemed to confirm charges that the Bush White House had ignored repeated warnings about the threat posed by Osama bin Laden. Clarke, it turned out, had bombarded national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice in the summer of 2001 with impassioned e-mails and memos warning of an Al Qaeda attack—and urging a more forceful U.S. government response. One e-mail jumped out: it pleaded with officials to imagine how they would feel after a tragedy where "hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the U.S.," adding that "that future day could happen at any time." The memo was written on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001—just one week before the attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.