This is the first I heard about this, but Jason Leopold of Truthout seems to be on target all the time: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former […]
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 […]
Writing on behalf of his One America political action committee, former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards sent an email Saturday seeking signatories in an effort to expand the powers of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate President Bush’s role in the strategic leaking of information related to Iraq. In the form letter on Edwards’ […]
The front page of today’s Washington Post has an interesting headline – “White House Shifts Into Survival Mode“: In a White House known for both defiance and optimism, yesterday’s senior staff changes represent a frank acknowledgment of the trouble in which President Bush now finds himself. They are also a signal of how starkly Bush’s […]
So early I raised the question if Card resigning could mean possible more indictments in the Valerie Plame leak case and now we get this article: It may seem as though it’s been moving along at a snail’s pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie […]
Kind of an odd timing for Card to resign now. The reason given by Bush this morning was so that Card could return to “private life”. Sounds kind of Claude Allenish to me. Yesterday Raw Story gave us this: Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has […]
Michael Isikoff ofNewsweek laid to rest that right wing argument that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent: But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done “covert work overseas” on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA “was making specific efforts to conceal” her identity, according to newly released […]
With such things as Abramoff, Cunningham and the NSA wiretapping story, it seems that the Valerie Plame leak case has taken a back seat. Thankfully we have people like Jason Leopold to keep us up to date: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is said to have spent the past month preparing evidence he will present to […]
Raw Story reported this morning that Fitzgerald was meeting with the grand jury again today and MSNBC later confirmed the story. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present additional evidence to a grand jury Wednesday morning in the CIA leak case that could result in an indictment being handed up against White House Deputy Chief of […]
Reuters has confirmed that Patrick Fitzgerald will be taking new develops before another grand jury in order to try and get indictments against White House officials. Fitzgerald sees new grand jury proceedings By Adam Entous Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new […]