On 7th January 2007, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former-Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, will stand trial for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI and the grand jury overseeing the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. It will be the culmination of an investigation that has not only laid bare the grounds upon which the Bush Administration corralled America into war, but also reveal the consistent undermining of American intelligence, journalism, and democracy that has become a disturbing feature of the White House modus operandi. Waas" articles on the machinations of the Bush White House in the lead up to war in Iraq have comprised some of the most widely discussed reporting on the CIA leak case since 2004. Cited by New York Times columnists for his disclosures on the pre-war propaganda, he has also been hailed as heir to the mantle of Bob Woodward by Jay Rosen of "PressThink,” while columnist Dan Froomkin of washingtonpost.com chided large media organizations for not acknowledging and following up on his revelations. This book gathers together some of the most important journalism of the past few years by one of our finest investigative minds.