Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff was the first reporter to investigate allegations of a sexual relationship between U. S. President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, but the editors spiked the story.

Isikoff and Corn argue that Mylroie " was looking to change the region through back-channel, private diplomacy -- and she aspired to be a behind-the-scenes peacemaker who would broker a deal between Saddam and Israel.

Michael Isikoff and David Corn noted that " An editor who worked on Saddam Hussein & the Crisis in the Gulf recalled that Mylroie often became obsessed with individual facts and exaggerated their importance: ' She was capable of great insight and of investing the smallest detail with the most disproportionate weight.

Taft is said to be one of the sources who told journalists David Corn and Michael Isikoff that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the source syndicated columnist Robert Novak had when he made public the fact that Valerie Wilson worked for the CIA.

In a review of Corn's and Isikoff's book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, Novak wrote: " I don't know precisely how Isikoff flushed out Armitage Novak's original source, but Hubris clearly points to two sources: Washington lobbyist Kenneth Duberstein, Armitage's political adviser, and William Taft IV, who was the State Department legal adviser when Armitage was deputy secretary.

Michael Isikoff also argued there was nothing extraordinary about the evacuation of the Saudis because the Tampa airport had reopened.

Al-Amoudi was described as an " expert in the art of deception " in a report by Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, for expressing moderate, pro-American sympathies in his lobbying and public relations work with Americans, but then expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah at an Islamist rally .< ref name = PBS >

Isikoff had been prepared to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but several hours before going to print, the article was killed by top Newsweek executives.

In their book Hubris Isikoff and Corn reveal — as both Armitage and syndicated columnist Robert Novak acknowledged publicly later — that Armitage was Novak's " initial " and " primary source " for Novak's July 2003 column that revealed Plame's identity as a CIA operative and that after Novak revealed his " primary source " ( Novak's phrase ) was a " senior administration official " who was " not a partisan gunslinger ," Armitage phoned Colin Powell that morning and was " in deep distress.

According to Isikoff, as based on his sources, Armitage told Bob Woodward Plame's identity three weeks before talking to Novak, and Armitage himself was aggressively investigated by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, but was never charged because Fitzgerald found no evidence that Armitage knew of Plame's covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and Woodward.

In the fall of 1997, Goldberg began speaking to reporters ( notably Michael Isikoff of Newsweek ) about the tapes.

News of the scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report, which reported that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff exposing the affair.

Drudge has been called " the Walter Cronkite of his era " by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, " an idiot with a modem " by Keith Olbermann, " the country's reigning mischief-maker " by Todd Purdum of The New York Times, and Michael Isikoff of Newsweek said " Drudge is a menace to honest, responsible journalism.

In the May 9, 2005 issue of Newsweek, an article by reporter Michael Isikoff stated that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay " in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur ' an down a toilet.

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In August 1997, Newsweek ’ s Michael Isikoff reported that Tripp said she had encountered Kathleen Willey coming out of the Oval Office " disheveled.

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Michael Isikoff, October 2007Michael Isikoff ( b. Syosset, New York, 1952 ) is an investigative journalist for NBC News, formerly with the United States magazine Newsweek.

In the May 9, 2005 issue of Newsweek, Isikoff co-wrote an article that stated that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay " in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur ' an down a toilet.

According to Newsweek columnist Michael Isikoff, " The original plan had been to place it in an upcoming presidential speech, but WHIG members fancied it so much that when the Times reporters contacted the White House to talk about their upcoming piece aluminum tubes, one of them leaked Gerson's phrase — and the administration would soon make maximum use of it.

Michael Isikoff revealed portions of his new book titled Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, co-authored with David Corn, in the August 28, 2006, issue of Newsweek.

" In his Newsweek article, Isikoff states:

According to Newsweek columnist Michael Isikoff, " The original plan had been to place it in an upcoming presidential speech, but WHIG members fancied it so much that when the Times reporters contacted the White House to talk about their upcoming piece aluminum tubes, one of them leaked Gerson's phrase — and the administration would soon make maximum use of it.

* Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, " New leaked memos are raising further questions about whether the Bush administration ‘ fixed ’ its intel to justify the Iraq war.

Novak responded: " I told Mr. Isikoff ... that I do not identify my sources on any subject if they ’ re on a confidential basis until they identify themselves ... I ’ m going to say one thing, though, I haven ’ t said before.

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff had harsh criticism of the $ 1. 4 billion figure, the Saudi connection, and the flights out of the U. S. According to Isikoff: " Nearly 90 percent of that amount, $ 1. 18 billion, comes from just one source: contracts in the early to mid-1990s that the Saudi Arabian government awarded to a U. S. defense contractor, BDM, for training the country's military and National Guard.

On July 1, 2010, Isikoff became the national investigative correspondent for NBC News.

In January 2007, Isikoff married Washington, DC political gossip columnist Mary Ann Akers, who currently writes " The Sleuth " for washingtonpost. com.

In the book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, as Corn observes ( before its release on September 8, 2006 ), they consider the issue of " whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there ," presenting " new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip.

Notable speakers the PSU has brought in include Jon Meacham, Mari Matsuda, Sam Harris, Nadine Strossen, and Michael Isikoff.

Two months later her e-mails showed up in a story by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff.

Isikoff and Corn, however, interviewed five of her former associates ( including Judith Miller ) who all " confirmed that she had been a secret go-between between Baghdad and Jerusalem.

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Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Over and above that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck Stober's part in recent events.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

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The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.