This is what caused [Fitzgerald] to hold off on charging

said they had no indication that Mr. Fitzgerald was considering charging Mr. Cheney with wrongdoing. Mr. Cheney was interviewed under oath by Mr. Fitzgerald last year. It is not known what the vice president told Mr. Fitzgerald about the conversation with Mr. Libby or when Mr. Fitzgerald first learned of it.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

the most soulless place I had ever been . . It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely.

[Bush's campaign strategist Karl Rove predicted that Forbes would not be able to keep pace as the campaign moves forward.] This is his high water mark, ... New Hampshire might be the same for John McCain.