Archive for the ‘libby’ Category

Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Waxman held off an immediate contempt citation of Mukasey, but only as a courtesy to lawmakers not present Wednesday and to give all members a chance to read up on the matter. He made clear that he thinks Mukasey, who requested that Bush invoke executive privilege to shield the records, ...

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 ...

Novak Takes a Swipe at Possible Obama VP Pick - The Fix

Monday, May 26th, 2008

How can blog about Novak without mentioning his role in the CIA Leak Case?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

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