Mary Matalin

Mary Joe Matalin (born September 19, 1953) is an American political strategist and consultant of Croatian origin. She is known for her work with the Republican Party. She was an assistant to George W. Bush and counselor to vice president Dick Cheney.

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September 19 - 1953 - American - Croatia - Republican Party - George W. Bush - Dick Cheney

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Curiously, she is married to James Carville, political strategist for the Democratic Party. Both Matalin and Carville have gone on record saying that they don't talk politics at home. The best example of contention among the two, aside from appearances on talk shows, is the 1992 movie The War Room. In the 1992 political campaign both Matalin and Carville were staffing opposite campaigns. Matalin wrote All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President with Carville.

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James Carville - Democratic Party - The War Room

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Like Carville, she was a host of CNN's Crossfire political debate show, and in 1993, she hosted Equal Time, which aired on the CNBC business television channel.

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CNN - Crossfire - 1993 - CNBC

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Matalin, a colleague of Karl Rove, worked for Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House. She attended meetings of the White House Iraq Group, a secretive internal White House task force convened in August 2002 (nine months before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq). WHIG was charged with the task of educating the US public about the threat from Saddam Hussein's purported weapons of mass destruction.

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Karl Rove - Dick Cheney - White House Iraq Group - August - 2002 - 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Weapons of mass destruction

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Matalin resigned her responsibilities as of 31 December 2002.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021213-5.html Although Matalin left the White House more than six months before the leak that triggered the Valerie Plame scandal, she is reported to have testified before the grand jury of Independent Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. (Notes and records of WHIG meetings were subpoenaed by Fitzgerald in January 2004.)

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31 December - 2002 - Valerie Plame scandal - Independent Counsel - Patrick Fitzgerald

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