Bush's Bulgarian Partner in the Terror War Has Mob History, Investigators Say

The most powerful politician in Bulgaria, Washington’s newest ally in the global war on terror, is a close associate of known mobsters and linked to almost 30 unsolved murders in the Black Sea republic, according to a confidential risk-analysis investigation of the country commissioned by a private bank.
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CQ Homeland Security (03/02/2007)

Plame Case Revisits an Old Battlefield

The old Washington refrain that “the coverup is worse than the crime” is in the air again. The reason: Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald faces a high legal bar in proving that the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA officer violated federal intelligence laws. Instead, he’s more likely to try to show that there was a coverup, or an attempt to obstruct his investigation, according to legal experts.
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CQ Homeland Security (10/21/2005)