Archive for the ‘plame’ 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 ...

Columnist Novak diagnosed with brain tumor

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Syndicated columnist and former "Crossfire" host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work. Novak issued a statement Monday saying the tumor was found Sunday after he had been rushed to Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital from Cape Cod, where he was ...

McClellan: Bush, Cheney Wanted Me To Say Libby Wasn’t Involved In CIA Leak Case…

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.Read the full story

Former WH Press Sec.: Bush, Rove helped pass along ‘false information’ on Plame

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

"I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself."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 ...