With all the talk recently about Cheney ordering Libby to disclose the identity of Valerie Plame, the timing of this story is very relevant. The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW […]
Senator Grassley has just said he can not understand why their is no outcry over the leaking of this program as compared to the outcry of the Valerie Plame leak. Can this guy be serious or is a member of the judiciary committee that blind to the law? He also said that if hypothetically the […]
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 […]
We knew it was coming but it has now been made official. The Justice Department is set to launch an investigation into who leaked the secret eavesdropping program to the press. This is according to the Associated Press: The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush’s secret […]
OK I think we have now seen enough of Bush to last the next decade. From his televised radio address on Saturday to his prime time speech last night I was already tired of him. Today though, I got an extra dose. Bush decided to surprise people with a press conference. He actually used this […]
The White House took issue on Thursday with a claim by syndicated columnist Robert Novak that President George W. Bush knows who the source is who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. “I don’t know what he’s basing it on,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan, declining to comment further. Novak said Tuesday […]
Fitzgerald is presenting new information to the grand jury today. Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. Fitzgerald has been probing for two years what role senior Bush administration officials have played in leaking a CIA operative name to the media […]
The FBI is reopening their case into the forged documents that made the claim Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger. These are the very same documents that lead to the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA operative. WASHINGTON  The FBI has reopened an inquiry into one of the most intriguing aspects of […]
According to Raw Story, testimony given by Karl Rove’s aide could further his chances of getting indicted in the outing of Valerie Plame. The attorneys say that Rove’s former personal assistant, Susan B. Ralston — who was also a special assistant to President Bush — testified in August about why Cooper’s call to Rove was […]