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 […]
Yesterday I was sitting here wondering if I should continue one of my year of scam blogs, Helluvaburden. I started it to keep track of all the news surrounding Halliburton’s corruption. For the past couple months there hasn’t been too much news regarding them, then I wake up this morning and realize the debate that […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – The limited oral briefings provided by the White House to a handful of lawmakers about the domestic eavesdropping program may not have fulfilled a legal requirement under the National Security Act that calls for such reports to be in written form, Congressional officials from both parties said on Tuesday. The White […]
Tuesday during the Senate shut down that Harry Reid caused, the Situation Room had James Carville on talking about the leak investigation. During his statements they were discussing the need for the vice-President to come clean on his involvement in the leak. I thought it was interesting when Carville said “we need the President to […]
The following was obtained from Raw Story. Prosecutor in leak case seeks indictments against Rove, Libby, lawyers close to case say 10/26/2005 @ 10:28 am Filed by Jason Leopold and John Byrne Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has asked the grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Vice President […]
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 […]
Scooter Libby failed to disclose a meeting he had with Judith Miller on June 23, 2003 twice to the Grand Jury, and also to FBI agents who investigated the leak. This can add another wrench into Libby’s involvement as he could now be charged with perjury and/or obstruction. The information became known in notes Judith […]
From the Associated Press: Reporter finds earlier notes in CIA leak case New York Times reporter Judith Miller discovered notes from an earlier conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and turned them over the prosecutor investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s identity, legal sources said on Friday. Miller’s […]