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OPINION

2007's Biggest White House Whoppers

Slate runs down the Bush team's most dubious legal claims

Jan 1, 08 4:10 PM CST
(Newser) - In her second annual roundup of the Bush administration's most egregious legal arguments, Dahlia Lithwick of Slate offers her top 10 doozies:
  1. The United States does not torture
  2. State-secrets privilege used to shield almost anything.
  3. Almost anything Alberto Gonzales said.
  4. The nine US attorneys were fired for
... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Sara Taylor • executive privilege • Lewis Scooter Libby • US attorney firings • Geneva Convention • George W. Bush

Libby
Drops
Appeal

Barring presidential pardon, Plame leaker remains convicted felon

Dec 10, 07 10:49 AM CST
(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,... More »

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Valerie Plame • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby • Theodore Wells

The Cheney Behind Cheney

VP's chief of staff
is architect of some
of his most extreme positions

Nov 25, 07 3:19 PM CST
(Newser) - A new book by former Bush insider Jack Goldstein, The Terror Presidency, spotlights David Addington, the reclusive counsel and key player to Dick Cheney. Called "Cheney's Cheney" in some circles, Addington has designed some of the White House's most controversial policies, including rendition, warrantless wiretapping, and the use of... More »

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Dick Cheney • torture • Lewis Scooter Libby • David Addington • Jack Goldstein

Bush Blamed in Plamegate

Press secretary says Bush gave him false information

Nov 20, 07 6:20 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Plame Tell-All Blasts the
White House

Says her smearing was practice for Kerry's; CIA redacted pages of book

Oct 18, 07 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Famously outed spy Valerie Plame hits back at the Bush administration in Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, the AP reports. The book blasts the administration's "arrogance and intolerance," and calls the smear campaign against her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson,... More »

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Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • Joseph Wilson • Karl Rove • Lewis Scooter Libby

Gonzo's Exit Handcuffs
White House

New prosecutor will probe prez, Bork argues in National Review

Aug 29, 07 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dems will blitz Bush with document hunts and witness prep until election 2008, Robert Bork argues in the National Review, by demanding a special prosecutor along with the next attorney general. "A special prosecutor with unlimited funds, a soon-developed addiction to publicity, and a broad mandate" will go... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Patrick Fitzgerald • Karl Rove • Robert Bork • Lewis Scooter Libby • scandal • George W. Bush

Prosecutor Flunks
Scooter Test

Libby foe Fitzgerald goes on NPR, receives lovely parting gift

Jul 20, 07 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The NPR quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" lured US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to last night's taping for a game called "Not My Job"—and a little teasing. Best line: Fitzgerald said he lived on Chicago's North Side but worked downtown, and host Peter Sagal... More »

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Patrick Fitzgerald • scooters • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby • Peter Sagal

Judge Tosses Ex-Spy's Suit Against Cheney

Court rules Plame's civil action vs. VP, Rove, Libby won't go forward

Jul 19, 07 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - A judge today dismissed outed CIA operative Valerie Plame's civil suit against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, saying that the revelation of her identity "was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform." Furthermore, the judge ruled, Plame and her husband, ex-ambassador... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • Joseph Wilson • Karl Rove • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby

Commutation Order Baffles Libby Judge

Bush acknowledges White House role
in Plame leak

Jul 13, 07 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The federal judge who sentenced Scooter Libby to 30 months in prison expressed his frustration with President Bush's commutation order yesterday, pointing out that the administration had championed the sentencing guidelines he followed. Reggie Walton, a Bush appointee with a lock-'em-up reputation, vented in a footnote to an order that... More »

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Bush administration • Valerie Plame • CIA leak investigation • Reggie Walton • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Fitzgerald Faces Senate Grilling on Scooter

Committee to probe sentencing guidelines after commutation

Jul 9, 07 4:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The man who prosecuted Scooter Libby for obstruction of justice may be grilled by senators  investigating the case, Bloomberg reports. Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday they want to question Patrick Fitzgerald on the case, including sentencing guidelines. In commuting Libby's sentence last week, President Bush claimed it... More »

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Patrick Fitzgerald • Senate Judiciary Committee • Arlen Specter • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Commutation Decision Marks Serious Shift

As Texas governor, Bush seldom overruled court decisions

Jul 7, 07 6:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - In six years as governor of Texas, George W. Bush issued 20 pardons and commuted one death sentence. As president, he seemed to be hewing to the same standard, granting 113 pardons (against more than 1,000 appeals) and commuting just four sentences. The fourth commutation sends the Times in... More »

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commutation • clemency • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Libby Ponies Up $250K Fine

Convicted felon does financial penance as commutation flap continues unabated

Jul 5, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lewis Libby has discharged the first part of his penalty for perjury and obstruction, paying a $250,000 fine and $400 "special assessment" to the clerk of the DC district court. A facsimile of the cashier's check, dated July 2—the day President Bush issued his commutation order—appeared... More »

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CIA leak investigation • Reggie Walton • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Bush Bucks His
Own Trend with Commutation

White House beef with
Libby case contradicts
Justice policies

Jul 4, 07 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush's rationale for commuting Scooter Libby's sentence was the kind of complaint routinely overruled by Bush's own conservative Justice Department, the Times observes. The contradiction between Bush's stern stance and his action on Libby is so stark that Joe Biden accused him of "flip-flopping" yesterday. More »

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Bush administration • law • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Bush, Cheney Should Quit Over Scooter

Resignation, impeachment the only options, argues Olbermann

Jul 4, 07 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - MSNBC's Keith Olbermann came out swinging last night, demanding the resignation of both the president and VP—"two men who are now perilous to our democracy." Drawing on both John Wayne and James Madison, the anchor donned his commentator hat to contend that commuting Scooter Libby's sentence was... More »

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Dick Cheney • politics • democracy • presidential pardon • presidential politics • Bush impeachment • president • commutation • partisanship • government • resignation • Lewis Scooter Libby • vice president • George W. Bush

Bush Won't
Say No to
Libby Pardon

Sentence commutation may not be last chapter of CIA leak story

Jul 3, 07 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will not eliminate the possibility of a full pardon for Scooter Libby, he said today. Under fire from supporters for not pardoning the VP's ex-chief of staff and from critics for commuting the 30-month prison sentence—a decision he described as "very difficult"—he said he... More »

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Bush administration • federal courts • CIA leak investigation • federal investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • George W. Bush

Why Bush Let Scooter Skate

President, 'liberated'
by his unpopularity, acted unilaterally

Jul 3, 07 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush's dwindling popularity played a major role in his decision to commute the prison sentence for Scooter Libby, according to the Times. The ostracized president had little left to lose by saving Libby from prison and, in the words of one Republican observer, knew he was "going to... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • Valerie Plame • prison • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Bush Commutes Libby Sentence

President spares former Cheney aide jail time; conviction remains

Jul 2, 07 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scooter Libby won't be going to jail: President Bush commuted the former Cheney aide's 30-month sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice tonight, but stopped short of a pardon. The move came hours after a federal appeals court denied Libby's motion for bail pending his appeal. More »

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Bush administration • Valerie Plame • White House • Reggie Walton • Lewis Scooter Libby • sentencing • perjury • obstruction of justice • George W. Bush

Scooter Won't Need to Beg for Pardon

Slate's political wiz doesn't see Libby landing behind bars

Jun 15, 07 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will step in and save Scooter Libby for two reasons, argues Slate's John Dickerson. First, to repay Dick Cheney for not throwing Karl Rove under the bus. And second, pardoning Libby could help Bush regain Republican support by appeasing conservatives who opposed the CIA leak investigation from the... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • Republican • CIA leak investigation • presidential pardon • John Dickerson • Lewis Scooter Libby • pardon • George W. Bush

Judge Orders Libby to Prison

Defense likely to appeal trial court's ruling

Jun 14, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scooter Libby may not remain free pending appeal, the judge in his perjury trial ruled today, and must begin serving his 30-month sentence this summer. His defense team will turn next to a federal appeals court, the Washington Post reports, but the most pressing legal question now is whether President... More »

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prison • CIA leak investigation • appeal • Reggie Walton • Lewis Scooter Libby • conviction • sentencing • pardon • perjury • George W. Bush

Prosecutor Pushes for Quick Action on Libby

Fitzgerald urges judge to rule against
release pending appeal

Jun 12, 07 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The prosecutor in the Scooter Libby case wants the judge to send the vice president's ex-chief of staff to prison sooner rather than later. Arguing that the chance of an appeals court overturning the conviction is "at best, remote," Patrick Fitzgerald filed documents today calling for Libby's 30-month... More »

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Patrick Fitzgerald • CIA leak investigation • Reggie Walton • Alan Dershowitz • Robert Bork • Lewis Scooter Libby

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