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Cheney on Plame Leak:
I Can't Recall

VP comes up blank on specifics in newly released interview

Oct 30, 09 6:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - After years of effort by the Bush and Obama administrations to keep documents related to the CIA leak case secret, redacted portions of the special prosecutor’s 2004 interview with Dick Cheney released today show plenty of nothing. The then-VP apparently suffered acute memory loss: Cheney told Patrick Fitzgerald he... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • CIA • Department of Justice • Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • Joseph Wilson • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby • Obama administration • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics • Central Intelligence Agency

Judge: Cheney Interview in Plame Case Can't Be Sealed

But government can redact certain portions

Oct 1, 09 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge has ordered the FBI to release most of the interview it conducted with Dick Cheney over the Valerie Plame case, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have tried to keep the record of the 2004 sit-down sealed, arguing... More »

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Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • FBI • Freedom of Information Act • Lewis Scooter Libby • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics

(Newser) - Dick Cheney has decided the "statute of limitations" has expired on some secrets from the Bush era, associates tell the Washington Post. Discussing his memoir-in-progress, the former vice president has made it plain that he felt President Bush was getting soft in his second term, and moved away from... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Lewis Scooter Libby • memoir • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Dick Cheney pursued a pardon for former aide Scooter Libby so doggedly in his final days in office that he pushed the bounds of his 9-year relationship with George Bush, reports Time. It wasn't so much a political issue as a moral "crusade" for Cheney, write Massimo Calabresi and... More »

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Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • vice president • George W. Bush

analysis

Daily Show Argument Exposes Obama as Bush Lite

Judge questions DoJ's claim about Cheney

Jun 19, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Justice Department lawyer argued in court yesterday—with a straight face—that releasing statements Dick Cheney made during the Valerie Plame investigation could cause future administration officials to hold back out of fear their statements would “get on The Daily Show.” The judge overseeing the hearing seemed... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • CIA • Department of Justice • Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • Joseph Wilson • Lewis Scooter Libby • Obama administration • U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan • Emmet Sullivan • Stephen Bradbury

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Cheney: Obama 
 Making US Less Safe 

Former VP slams prez for quashing 'essential' Bush policies

Mar 15, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama "is making some choices that will in fact raise the risk to the American people of an attack," former VP Dick Cheney charged today. Appearing relaxed and slimmer on CNN’s State of the Union, Cheney upbraided Obama for revising the Bush administration’s counterterrorism... More »

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Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • Lewis Scooter Libby • counterterrorism • bonuses • Barney Frank • Lawrence Summers

Cheney Furious at Bush
for Not Pardoning Libby

Ex-VP pushed prez for reprieve 'til he left DC

Feb 17, 09 9:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Dick Cheney is furious that President Bush wouldn’t listen when he repeatedly pushed for a last-minute pardon for Scooter Libby, the New York Daily News reports. The ex-VP “went to the mat and came back and back and back at Bush” for a full pardon, said one close... More »

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Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • CIA leak investigation • presidential pardon • commutation • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Dick Cheney believes disgraced former chief of staff Scooter Libby, convicted in the CIA leak investigation, deserved a pardon, the Weekly Standard reports. “He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice,” the former vice president said. “Obviously, I disagree with President Bush.” Bush’... More »

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Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • CIA leak investigation • presidential pardon • commutation • commute • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush • sentence

OPINION

Handicapping Last-Minute Bush Pardons

Scooter Libby? Alberto Gonzales? The entire CIA? Speculation swirls

Jan 19, 09 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush has shown no inclination to go on a Clinton-esque pardon binge, but that won't stop Josh Gerstein of Politico from speculating. Here are the potential pardon/commutation prospects, and the odds:
  • All CIA and military interrogators: Bush could make a big splash with a blanket pardon to anyone
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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • pardon • harsh interrogation • George W. Bush

OPINION

 Libby Deserves 
 Bush Pardon 

Conviction a 'miscarriage of justice,' writes Fred Barnes

Jan 16, 09 4:16 PM CST
(Newser) - “Simple justice” should compel President Bush to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby, writes Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard. “Libby has either been punished far too severely for a very small offense,” writes Barnes “or he is an innocent man.” Libby was convicted of perjury... More »

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CIA • Valerie Plame • CIA leak investigation • presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • Tim Russert • felon • George W. Bush • Richard Armitage

OPINION

Libby Hasn't Asked to Be Pardoned

Supporters look to Cheney to sway Bush
in final week

Jan 14, 09 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush has less than a week to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby for his role in the CIA leak case, and at this point it’s unclear if he will, writes Byron York for the National Review. Dick Cheney's former chief of staff hasn't applied for one through the... More »

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Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • CIA leak investigation • presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • pardon • George W. Bush

 Bush Pardons 19 More, 
 But Not Libby (Yet) 

President's tally still pales in comparison to Clinton, Reagan

Dec 23, 08 4:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Another round of presidential pardons today might not be the last, the Washington Post reports. “The president has maintained his authority to do that until his last day,” a spokesman said. No big names, such as Scooter Libby, were announced, but President Bush did issue a rare posthumous... More »

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fraud • presidential pardon • commutation • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush • drug charges • Charles Winters

OPINION



 Blago the 
 Only Rat 
 Paying 
 the Piper 

'Chicago punk,' sure, but ever heard of Bush, Rumsfeld, Lay, Rubin?

Dec 14, 08 1:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Poor Rod Blagojevich: He merely tried to auction off the president-elect’s Senate seat and could be imprisoned for it. But the men who bungled Iraq and crashed our economy can anticipate vacations and White House jobs, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times. Luckily for us, Blagojevich “... More »

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corruption • Lewis Scooter Libby • Illinois • Frank Rich • governor • Robert Rubin • Ken Lay • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • George W. Bush

Illinois' New
Eliot Ness Bags Another Scalp

From twin towers to Valerie Plame, Fitzgerald is relentless

Dec 10, 08 8:12 AM CST
(Newser) - With the arrest of Rod Blagojevich, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald notched up his second indictment against an Illinois governor in five years. But it's just another scalp for the US attorney who's brought down everyone from World Trade Center bomber Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to media mogul Conrad Black, not... More »

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Department of Justice • US attorney • Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • corruption • Lewis Scooter Libby • Illinois • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal

Judith Miller Heads to Fox

Controversial former Times reporter, jailed in CIA leak case, will be on-air analyst

Oct 20, 08 10:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Judith Miller, the former New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail rather than reveal her sources in a CIA leak case, is Fox News’ newest on-air analyst, Editor & Publisher reports. “I get to spout my views, I will NOT be joining the news team,”... More »

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Valerie Plame • New York Times • Lewis Scooter Libby • Fox News • Judith Miller

Court Tosses Lawsuit Over CIA Leak

It uphholds dismissal of Plame's case against Cheney, others

Aug 12, 08 5:13 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Plame Cover-Up Continues, McClellan Says on Hill

Bush lacking 'openness and candor' by not coming clean in leak case, on Iraq run-up

Jun 20, 08 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scott McClellan took to Capitol Hill today, and in what one Republican dismissed as “book-of-the-month club” meeting, took on the CIA leak case and the Iraq war, among other topics. The former White House press secretary said he didn’t know if a crime had been committed in the... More »

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Valerie Plame • Lewis Scooter Libby • WMD • Scott McClellan • George W. Bush

Cheney May Have Told Libby to Out Plame

'Scooter' told FBI
agents it's 'possible'
that VP gave order

Jun 3, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Scooter” Libby told the FBI it was “possible” that Dick Cheney ordered him to out CIA agent Valerie Plame to the press, the Washington Post reports. The revelation appears in a redacted FBI report under examination by a House panel led by Henry Waxman. The panel now wants... More »

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Dick Cheney • Patrick Fitzgerald • Henry Waxman • Lewis Scooter Libby • Scott McClellan

McClellan Blasts Bush for Not Firing Rove

Role in Plamegate was enough to can him, ex-Bushie says

Jun 1, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush should have fired aide Karl Rove over the Plamegate affair, Scott McClellan said today. Publicizing his Washington tell-all book, McClellan also blasted Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's ex-chief of staff, for denying they had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name, the AP reports. "We... More »

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Bush administration • Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • Lewis Scooter Libby • Scott McClellan • George W. Bush • press secretary

Rove Brushes Off McClellan Claims on Plame Deception

Says he didn't mislead anyway

May 28, 08 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the political world abuzz over the harsh tone of Scott McClellan’s new memoir about the "culture of deception''  in the Bush White House, Karl Rove is defending himself against one of the former spokesman’s most damning claims—that Rove and Scooter Libby colluded in a Valerie... More »

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CIA • Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • Lewis Scooter Libby • Scott McClellan

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