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  • August 2008

    • Court Tosses Lawsuit Over CIA Leak

      Reuters  |  Aug 12, 08 5:13 PM CDT

      Court Tosses Lawsuit Over CIA Leak

      (Newser) - A federal appeals court today threw out former CIA spy Valerie Plame's lawsuit against Dick Cheney and a group of former Bush White House officials for leaking her identity to the public. The court ruled that Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and former State Department official Richard Armitage were acting within their official duties when they conspired to reveal Plame's identity to the press, Reuters reports. More »

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      Bush administration  • Karl Rove  • Lewis Scooter Libby  • Valerie Plame  • CIA leak investigation  • Joseph Wilson  • Richard Armitage  • Plamegate

  • July 2008
  • December 2007

    • Libby Drops Appeal

      Associated Press  |  Dec 10, 07 10:49 AM CST

      Libby Drops Appeal

      (Newser) - Lewis “Scooter” Libby will drop the appeal of his conviction in the CIA leak scandal, the AP reports. President Bush commuted Libby’s 30-month prison term, but Dick Cheney's onetime chief of staff remains a convicted felon. Libby’s lawyer said he was convinced of his client’s innocence, but the case had become too great a burden for Libby’s family to bear. More »

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      Lewis Scooter Libby  • Valerie Plame  • CIA leak investigation

    • Justice Dept. Opens Probe of CIA Tapes

      MSNBC  |  Dec 8, 07 2:11 PM CST

      Justice Dept. Opens Probe of CIA Tapes

      (Newser) - The Justice Department will open a preliminary investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the severe interrogation of terrorism suspects, MSNBC reports. The CIA's internal watchdog will do the same. The preliminary probes will determine if broader investigations are warranted. The CIA destroyed the tapes in 2005 against the advice of White House and Justice Department officials and senior members of Congress.  More »

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      CIA  • Department of Justice  • Michael Hayden  • CIA leak investigation

    • Bush Blocking Plame Probe, Says Waxman

      Washington Post  |  Dec 4, 07 8:13 AM CST

      Bush Blocking Plame Probe, Says Waxman

      (Newser) - A House committee chairman investigating the Valerie Plame affair says the White House is blocking special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from providing key documents from his investigation, the Washington Post reports. Fitzgerald agreed to hand over his findings before the Bush administration stepped in, says Henry Waxman, who has called on Michael Mukasey to overrule his new boss at the White House. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • Dick Cheney  • Michael Mukasey  • Valerie Plame  • Henry Waxman  • CIA leak investigation  • Patrick Fitzgerald

  • November 2007

    • Bush Blamed in Plamegate

      Salon  |  Nov 20, 07 6:20 PM CST

      Bush Blamed in Plamegate

      (Newser) - Bush's ex-press secretary says he falsely exonerated Scooter Libby and Karl Rove in the outing of a CIA agent in 2003 because the president told him to, Salon reports. A leaked excerpt of Scott McClellan’s upcoming memoir says that his misinformation came from "the president himself" when McClellan claimed the two men were innocent of outing Valerie Plame. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Karl Rove  • Lewis Scooter Libby  • Valerie Plame  • memoir  • Scott McClellan  • CIA leak investigation

  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007

    • Plame Files Suit Against CIA

      Reuters  |  May 31, 07 4:48 PM CDT

      Plame Files Suit Against CIA

      (Newser) - The former CIA agent whose cover was blown, leading to the perjury conviction of the vice president's former top aide, is suing the agency for interfering with the publication of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Fair Game, filed suit in federal court today, seeking clearance to disclose her dates of service. More »

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      lawsuit  • CIA  • investigation  • Lewis Scooter Libby  • Valerie Plame  • CIA leak investigation  • Simon and Schuster

    • Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

      Washington Post  |  May 30, 07 9:56 AM CDT

      Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

      (Newser) - Scooter Libby is about to be sentenced, but the government prosecutor and lawyers for the VP's ex-chief of staff aren't letting up, the Washington Post 's Dan Froomkin blogs today. The jousting continued in a court filing last week in which, Froomkin posits, "the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby's crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney." More »

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      White House  • CIA  • Dick Cheney  • investigation  • Lewis Scooter Libby  • CIA leak investigation  • Patrick Fitzgerald

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