Posts tagged with 'Manuel_Miranda'

Serial GOP leaker leaks again

POSTED BY MICHAEL ROSTON, FEBRUARY 09 2008 01:30 PM | PERMALINK

President Bush sure is the sort of leader who never deviates from principles once he commits to them. And if those principles involve sending partisan operatives to Iraq to engage in the task of nation-building, regardless of their experience and qualifications, then so be it. President Bush is a principled man, and always on the prowl for other principled men and women to send around the world, consequences be damned.

This week we've seen the case of Manuel Miranda pop up. The former staffer to...
Manuel Miranda: Covered in Glory and Spreading Democracy

POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 29 2007 03:10 PM | PERMALINK

This week’s New Yorker added some interest to my humdrum morning commute to Manhattan. There was Hendrik Hertzberg praising Mike Huckabee’s authenticity in the “Talk of the Town,” yet another sign that the former Arkansas governor is working some kind of voodoo magick over all agents of the national press.

And then I turn to this entry by Jeffery Toobin on the magick resurrection of Manuel Miranda, the former lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee and counsel to Bill Frist. The one who got...