Archive for the ‘cia+leak+case’ Category

Court won’t resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The appeals court said there was no constitutional basis for the court to step in and it declined to create one. The judges said Plame and Wilson could bring their case under the Privacy Act, though it does not cover the president or vice president's offices. The court also said ...

Scott McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak Plame’s identity

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

About 3 minutes into his video interview on the Today show, Scott McClellan tells Meredith Viera that President Bush admitted to him, on Air Force One, that he had authorized Scooter Libby to leak Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative. While Scott McClellan, as Press Secretary, was a professional ...

Cheney’s subpoenaed e-mails missing

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Even though White House computer technicians hunted high and low, an entire week's worth of e-mail from Cheney's office was missing. The week was Sept. 30, 2003, to Oct. 6, 2003, the opening days of the Justice Department's probe into whether anyone at the White House leaked the identity of ...

White House reused e-mail tapes

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Among the e-mails that could be lost are messages swapped by any White House officials involved in discussions about leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.Read the full story

Libby, Cheney, Rove civil suit dismissed

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

While Bates did not address the constitutional questions, he seemed to side with administration officials who said they were acting within their job duties. Plame had argued that what they did was illegal and outside the scope of their government jobs.Read the full story

Fitzgerald may be called to testify about Libby case

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Leahy added that this was "a blatant way of guaranteeing that Scooter Libby would not talk about the things that were done, you know, some of the misleading information given out by Vice President Cheney and the president. They led us into this war in Iraq, and they bought his ...

Clinton criticizes Libby prison commute

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent.Read the full story

Libby Commutation Editorial Roundup

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The Wall Street Journal sees it differently: "By failing to issue a full pardon, Mr. Bush is evading responsibility for the role his administration played in letting the Plame affair build into fiasco and, ultimately, this personal tragedy. ... Mr. Libby deserved better from the President whose policies he tried ...

Bush commuted Libby sentence without consulting Justice Department, Fitzgerald

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

"For the first time in his presidency, Bush made a decision to commute a sentence without going through a process of running requests through lawyers at the Justice Department," the Post alleged. "He also did not ask the chief prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, for his input, as ...

Bush spares Libby from prison term

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

resident Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2½-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.Read the full story