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  • Vice President lied as White House sought to defuse leak inquiry
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    Did Vice President Dick Cheney help cover-up the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson in the months after conservative columnist Robert Novak first disclosed her identity?
    That’s one of the questions Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is likely trying to figure out. It’s unclear what Cheney said to investigators back in 2004 when he was questioned-not under oath-about the leak, particularly what he knew and when he knew it.
    The five-count criminal (…)

  • Experts Questioning Iraq Intel Silenced Before War- Never Let Politicians Say They Didn’t Know...
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the New Zealand Scoop-This isn’t new news! Posted by The Prissy Patriot http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War Thursday, 12 June 2003, 11:48 am
    By Jason Leopold
    Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • Fitzgerald expanded scope of inquiry in 2004 to probe Niger forgeries
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    The special prosecutor investigating the outing of a covert CIA agent expanded his probe last year to include intelligence information used by the Bush administration claiming that Iraq tried to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger.
    According to a court filing posted on the website of Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating who leaked the name of undercover CIA agent to reporters, was interested in questioning New York Times reporter Judith Miller (…)

  • Prosecutor secures indictment in CIA outing case, lawyers say
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    The prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson has secured at least one indictment in the case from a majority of the 23 grand jurors, lawyers and intelligence officials close to the case said Wednesday.
    The final outcome of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s 22-month federal probe is expected to end Friday with indictments of White House officials. The situation remains fluid, however, and several new scenarios have developed (…)

  • Vice President’s role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Cheney’s role in CIA outing not known
    Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.
    The investigation into who leaked the officer’s name to reporters has now turned toward a little known (…)

  • Bill Frist, The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    It’s one thing to lie in politics. It’s another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader?
    The Tennessee Republican claims he wasn’t privy to any inside information leading up to the sale of his stock in Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the country’s largest for-profit hospital chain founded by Frist’s father, Thomas, and brother, Thomas Jr., weeks before (…)

  • The GOP’s Fiscal Policies Turned a Natural Disaster into a Man-Made Catastrophe
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department.
    If anything, Bush’s tenure as president proves that the Republican tax cuts (which everyone knows truly benefits the wealthiest one percent), drastically slashing funds in the federal budget for much needed improvements to the (…)

  • FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majority of Votes There
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to a May 19 story in the Washington Post that quoted DHS sources.
    “Some Homeland Security sources said (…)

  • CIA Intelligence Reports Seven Months Before 9/11 said Iraq Posed No Threat to U.S., Containment Was Working
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    CIA Director George Tenet testified before Congress in February 2001 that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or to other countries in the Middle East.
    But immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9-11, which the Bush administration has said Iraq is partially responsible for, the President and his advisers were already making a case for war against Iraq without so much as providing a shred of evidence to back up their allegations that Iraq and its (…)