Fitzmas could be returning. Top White House aide Karl Rove prepared to testify Wednesday for a fifth time before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity, a person familiar with the case said. Rove consulted with his private lawyers before a scheduled afternoon court appearance and was prepared to answer […]
Looks like old Dick my be getting into some hot water and hisshooting a hunter isn’t the cause of it: Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. […]
So now the Vice-President has the authority to just leak out classified information at a time of war? Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose […]
More bad news for Republicans. This courtesy of the Associated Press Scanlon Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud By PETE YOST, Associated Press Michael Scanlon, partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was charged Friday with conspiring to defraud Indian tribes the two were representing of millions of dollars. In a one-count criminal information filed by the government, […]
The mystery of the day – who told Bob Woodward of Valerie Plame’s identity? Since the story broke in this mornings edition of the Washington Post there has much much speculation and things being said about who could of told Woodward about Plame. He testified before a federal grand jury yesterday that he was informed […]
Tom Noe, the coin dealer behind Ohio’s “Coingate” has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Via the Toledo Blade: Noe indicted in Bush money-laundering case A federal grand jury has indicted Tom Noe, the former Maumee coin dealer suspected of laundering money into President Bush’s reelection campaign, Mr. Noe’s attorney told The Blade […]
The New York Times has just broken the story that it was Dick Cheney who told Scooter Libby about plame. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24  I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks […]
Will Karl Rove leave the White House. Better yet, want to make a bet on it. Well you can through Sportsbook.com: Americans betting Rove’s White House days are numbered Thursday October 13, 3:03 pm ET Sportsbook.com offers updated odds on Karl Rove’s future in the Bush Administration after final grand jury testimony WASHINGTON, D.C., […]
Washington Post: Abramoff Indicted in Fraud Case Washington Lobbyist Arrested in L.A. By James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 11, 2005; 5:51 PM MIAMI, Aug. 11 — Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday as part of a wide-ranging fraud case stemming from the purchase of a […]
The AP is reporting that a federal grand jury in Miami is ready to hand down an indictment to lobbyist Jack Abramoff as early as today. Abramoff has been the target of numerous investigations including scamming Indian Tribes out of millions of dollars. Abramoff is also tied to Tom Delay and has connections in the […]