Archive for the 'C.I.A. Leak' Category
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Waxman: White House Blocking Release of Plame Investigation Docs
By Paul Kiel - December 3, 2007, 11:17AM
Another test for Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In a letter to Mukasey today, House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) said that the White House has prevented former Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from turning over records of his interviews during the Valeria Plame […]
Posted in C.I.A. Leak, Cheney, Plame, Libby, White House |
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame’s Identity To Him: UPDATED!
By: Logan Murphy on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 10:20 AM - PDT
Following Karl Rove’s appearance this morning on “Meet The Press” David Gregory (who is involved in the Plame scandal. More on that later.) held a round table discussion which included former Time […]
Posted in News Media, C.I.A. Leak, Rove, Plame |
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Think Progress
Who Is John D. Bates?
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Yesterday, federal district Judge John D. Bates “dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband [Joe Wilson] against Vice President Cheney and other top officials over the Bush administration’s” retaliatory leak of Plame’s identity. Bates’s decision yesterday is in line with a long record of […]
Posted in Law, Courts, C.I.A. Leak, Plame, Crime, Judge Bates |
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Yesterday I read at JoBlo.com via Huffington Post that “Nothing But the Truth,” a political thriller, Miller, would star Kate Beckinsale as the former New York Times reporter–Judith Miller.
The Huffington Post piece included this tandem photograph:
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Regretfully, one of my favorite all-around entertainers passed away last summer; otherwise, he have certainly read for the part.
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Rest […]
Posted in C.I.A. Leak, Movies, Judith Miller, Jan Murray, Kate Beckinsale |
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Shuster Rips Neoconservative Ajami For Comparing Scooter Libby To Fallen U.S. Soldiers
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month, neoconservative scholar Fouad Ajami compared Scooter Libby to “fallen soldiers” in Iraq. “[Libby] can’t be left behind as a casualty of a war our country had once proudly claimed as its own,” he wrote.
MSNBC’s David Shuster […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, C.I.A. Leak, Neo-Romanovs, Libby |
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Obstruction of Justice, Continued
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, July 3, 2007; 3:22 PM
During the course of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s trial for obstruction of justice and perjury, we learned a lot about his bosses.
Incremental discoveries that didn’t garner major headlines nevertheless added to what we know — and can reasonably surmise — about Vice President […]
Posted in Bush, C.I.A. Leak, Cheney, Crime, Sleaze |
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
June 17, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Scooter’s Sopranos Go to the Mattresses
By FRANK RICH
Excerpt…
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Mr. Libby’s lawyers argued that these letters should remain locked away on the hilarious grounds that they might be “discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.” And apparently many of the correspondents assumed that their missives would remain private, just like all other documents pertaining to Mr. […]
Posted in administration, C.I.A. Leak, Libby, Judge Reggie Walton |
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
David Broder’s Post column illuminiates the issue with a Caravaggio clarity.
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Images: (Painting) Ecce Homo by Caravaggio via castelmeteo.it; (Fitzgerald) Getty Images via cache.boston.com; (Rover) via axisoflogic.com; (Scooter) AP/ Wide World Photos via motherjones.com;
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Please find the column here.
Posted in Art, C.I.A. Leak, Rove, Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald, Judge Reggie Walton |
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Libby’s supporters renew call for pardon
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Let’s be philosophical for a moment…
Which of the pictured is responsible for the most deaths?
Scooter Libby, Karla Faye Tucker or–shut my mouth–W?
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Karla Faye was far from an angel, but our president had shown his love of life with his now infamous statement which Ms. Tucker did not […]
Posted in Bush, C.I.A. Leak, Cheney, Crime, Texas, Libby |
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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Was She Covert?
By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, March 22, 2007; 12:00 AM
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…only Prints Bilious knows for sure…
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Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra could hardly believe what he heard on television Friday as he watched a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic committee chairman, said his statement had been approved by the CIA […]
Posted in C.I.A. Leak, Cong-HOUSE, Plame |
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
This is a portion of Think Progress’ coverage of the Valerie Plame Wilson hearing on Friday, March 16.
This morning, in her testimony under oath before the House Government and Oversight Committee, Valerie Plame Wilson asserted that she was in fact a covert officer at the time that columnist Robert Novak revealed her employment at the […]
Posted in C.I.A. Leak, Cong-HOUSE, Neo-Romanovs, Plame, Waxman |