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DOJ Threatened Retaliation Against Fired Attorneys
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 2:33 pm | Jason Leopold
A Justice Department official threatened to take the "gloves off" and "retaliate" against the eight United States attorneys who were abruptly removed from their posts if they continued to speak publicly about the circumstances behind their dismissals, ... More >>
Waxman Asks Fitzgerald to Testify Before Congress
Friday, 9 March 2007, 2:49 pm | Jason Leopold
Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday he wants Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to testify before his committee about his investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson's identity. ... More >>
Congress Says Prepared to Act in Plame Affair
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:19 pm | Jason Leopold
Aides to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Congressman John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said they were engaged in discussions Tuesday about the possibility of holding immediate hearings and subpoenaing Special ... More >>
Cheney's Role Dominates Libby Trial Closing Args.
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:48 pm | Jason Leopold
It was the defense attorney representing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby who first told jurors during closing arguments in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial Tuesday that the government believes Vice President Dick Cheney told Libby to leak the identity ... More >>
BP Alaska Still Risks Environmental Disaster
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:43 pm | Jason Leopold
Less than a year after a corroded pipeline ruptured causing the largest oil spill in Alaskan history, BP (British Petroleum) has continued to implement severe cost-cutting measures at its North Slope facilities, making it vulnerable to another environmental ... More >>
DoD Report Appears to Confirm Downing Street Memo
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:54 am | Jason Leopold
A long-awaited report on the veracity of pre-war Iraq intelligence has found that a secretive policy shop exaggerated the Iraqi threat, providing the White House with cherry-picked information about links between Iraq and al Qaeda. The shop, operating ... More >>
Libby Testimony Points Directly to Bush, Cheney
Monday, 12 February 2007, 9:42 am | Jason Leopold
According to trial transcripts obtained by Truthout, former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before a grand jury in 2004 that Vice President Dick Cheney instructed him to divulge portions of a then-classified report to New ... More >>
A Battle Over "Powerful Evidence" at Libby Trial
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 11:01 pm | Jason Leopold
As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald gets ready to wrap up the government's perjury and obstruction of justice case against former vice presidential staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, he is fighting to introduce two "powerful" pieces of evidence ... More >>
Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 1:04 pm | Jason Leopold
Copies of handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney, introduced at trial by defense attorneys for former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, would appear to implicate George W. Bush in the Plame CIA Leak case. More >>
Leopold: Trial Reveals Wilson Smear Began Earlier
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 1:03 pm | Jason Leopold
One by one, the witnesses testified: what they knew and when they knew it. Speaking under the threat of a perjury penalty, the witnesses admitted for the first time that they had played a role in assisting the Office of the Vice President to attack ... More >>
Leopold: "Bush Admin. Is Focus of Leak Inquiry"
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:34 am | Jason Leopold
On the evening of September 27, 2003, Ari Fleischer logged onto a computer and read a story published on the Washington Post's web site - a story that would be printed above the fold on the front page of the paper the next morning. More >>
Attorney - "Libby Sacrificed to Protect Rove"
Saturday, 27 January 2007, 10:52 pm | Jason Leopold
Karl Rove's criminal exposure in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson was so extensive that the White House feared it could cost Republicans the presidential election in 2004. So administration officials sacrificed one of their ... More >>
Leopold: 16 Words and the Trial of Scooter Libby
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:08 am | Jason Leopold
Four years ago this month, President Bush, in his State of the Union address, said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." More >>
Leopold: Democrats Move to Counter Bush Surge
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:44 am | Jason Leopold
President Bush's plan to send 21,500 additional US troops to Iraq was met with fierce opposition Wednesday as Democratic lawmakers introduced competing proposals aimed at reversing the president's plan to escalate the war. More >>
Leopold: Preview - Fitzgerald's Case Against Libby
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 9:54 am | Jason Leopold
Opening statements in the criminal trial against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, are still a week away, but the special prosecutor has already provided a preview into the government's case against the ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Architect of Mr. Bush's Plan
Friday, 12 January 2007, 10:59 am | Jason Leopold
One of the key architects of President Bush's disastrous Iraq war policy was responsible for writing the president's new plan calling for an increase in US troops in the region. More >>
Jason Leopold: Democrats Divided on War Remedy
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 4:32 pm | Jason Leopold
Democratic lawmakers can start to flex their newfound political muscles today. Their party is formally assuming control of Congress for the first time in 12 years, in one of the most-anticipated Congressional sessions in history. More >>
The Court-Martial of Ehren Watada Begins
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 3:22 pm | Jason Leopold
A pre-trial hearing is scheduled to take place Thursday in Fort Lewis, Washington, in the court-martial of Ehren Watada, the 28-year-old Army lieutenant who is the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq on the basis that ... More >>
Leopold: Sarah Olson Subpoenaed in Watada Case
Monday, 18 December 2006, 12:46 am | Jason Leopold
A US Army prosecutor subpoenaed Truthout contributing reporter Sarah Olson Thursday morning, seeking her sworn testimony at the court-martial of First Lieutenant Ehren Watada. The 28-year-old Army officer refused deployment to Iraq earlier this year. ... More >>
Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:49 am | Jason Leopold
In a case that cuts right to the heart of the First Amendment, a US Army prosecutor has indicated he intends to subpoena Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash, a Truthout reporter, and two of the nonprofit news organization's regular contributors, to authenticate ... More >>
