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Conservative pundits seem miffed that Valerie Plame, her cover blown, decided to pose for Vanity Fair or get a book deal or sell her story to Hollywood. Well, what do they expect? She lost her job, her career. She can't become a covert agent for Canada. Or Mexico. And just because she's bounced back doesn't mean she wasn't victimized.
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday, March 16, 2007.
Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose outing triggered a federal investigation, appeared before a congressional committee Friday and said administration officials "should have been diligent" in protecting her identity.
Jon Stewart's take on Scooter Libby's Conviction. Verdict: pants on fire. Sam Bee from the White House explains that Libby's memory isn't bad. It's drop-an anvil-on-your-head bad.
Cheney's fingerprints were all over Libby's crimes. He can hide no longer. But he won't resign because he's a power monger and an ideologue. The Libby verdict should give new impetus to the movement to impeach the Vice President. As one of my favorite bumperstickers puts it, Impeach Cheney First.
The CIA leak saga did not end with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's conviction this week. On top of his lengthy appeals, he and senior Bush administration officials face a lawsuit for their role in the exposure of a former CIA operative.
So Libby has taken the fall. Now maybe special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald can get down to the real business of finding out just why the entire White House smear operation was unleashed--why they went so far as to violate federal law and expose Wilson's CIA-operative wife, Valerie Plame.
Now, as the defense phase of the perjury trial begins, Mr. Cheney is expected to make a historic appearance on the witness stand. It is an act of loyalty that carries considerable risk ...
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On Monday, lawyers for the vice president's former chief of staff will start presenting their defense. But they will have to make some quick decisions. One of their potential star witnesses-Dick Cheney-is due to leave the country for a 10-day trip to Asia on Feb. 19. So conveniently or not, the vice president's loyalty to his former top aide may
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Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald plans to play hours of recordings of that testimony in court next week to bolster his case that Libby lied and obstructed the investigation. "Scooter" Libby is fighting to keep his grand jury testimony about the leak of a CIA operative's name from being released and broadcast in the media.
Journalists will take center stage at the CIA leak trial as Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald begins calling reporters as witnesses.
White House bigwigs are called to testify in defense of former Vice Presidential aide 'Scooter' Libby. Among them, are presidential advisor Karl Rove and White House communications director Dan Bartlett.
A former aide testifies in Libby's trial that the vice president directed the effort to discredit a CIA agent's husband. In the first such account from Vice President Dick Cheney's inner circle, a former aide testified Thursday that Cheney personally directed the effort to discredit an administration critic by having calls made to reporters in 2003
Second day of the Scooter Libby trial: Ted Wells, the defendant's attorney, continued challenging the memories of the prosecution's witnesses to confuse jurors. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald called first witness, Marc Grossman, who was No. 3 at State Dept. Libby's previous testimony refuted.
Opening statements are heard in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame Wilson leak investigation.
The United States and South Korea picked up the pace of trade talks with a deadline looming to strike a deal by April, the chief U.S. delegate said on Friday, while Seoul winced after its battle plan was leaked.
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who faces trial for perjury and obstruction, is hoping for a jury whose members lose their keys, sort through their children's conflicting stories and generally believe memory is imperfect.
Potential jurors expressed mixed emotions about the Bush administration and the Iraq war as jury selection began Tuesday in the perjury and obstruction trial against former White House aide "Scooter" Libby.
Libby, who served as an adviser to President Bush and chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, faces trial for perjury and obstruction in the CIA leak case. Jury selection was to begin Tuesday and attorneys for both sides want to ask potential jurors about their opinions of the Bush administration, political scandals and the Iraq war.
When Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff goes on trial Tuesday on charges of lying about the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity, members of Washington's government and media elite will be answering some embarrassing questions as well.
A look at the major players in the perjury and obstruction trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium has leaked into the groundwater beneath the San Onofre nuclear power plant, prompting the closure of one drinking-water well in southern Orange County, authorities said.
Oil major BP Plc said it did not yet have a timeframe for restarting the eastern half of its 400,000 barrels per day Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, which was shut last week after government-ordered tests turned up severe corrosion in an oil transit pipeline.
Oil company BP has indefinitely shut down the nation's biggest oilfield after finding a pipeline leak, removing about 8 percent of U.S. oil production and stoking fears that already high gas prices will shoot up further.
Civil war is the most likely outcome in Iraq, Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad has warned, in a confidential memo to ministers obtained by the BBC.







