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Jason Leopold: Iraq and 9/11 - The Truth Is Out
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 10:53 am | Jason Leopold
Two weeks before 9/11, national security wasn't even a top priority for the Bush administration. Job security and health security were the top two major issues Bush planned to deal with in the fall of 2001, according to a transcript of a speech Bush ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Armitage Shmarmitage
Saturday, 9 September 2006, 9:16 pm | Jason Leopold
In April, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald filed a court document in the CIA leak case claiming his staff had obtained evidence during the course of the three-year-old probe that proves "multiple" White House officials were engaged in a coordinated ... More >>
FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:09 am | Jason Leopold
A couple of months before Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed special prosecutor to find out who told journalists that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative, Justice Department officials working under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft told ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Plame Leak(s)
Monday, 4 September 2006, 11:38 am | Jason Leopold
Richard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, may be syndicated columnist Robert Novak's primary source who told him on July 8, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. But that doesn't change the fact ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Robert Novak & the Perfect Stranger
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 12:09 am | Jason Leopold
By his own admission, syndicated columnist Robert Novak broke the news that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA to a perfect stranger on July 8th, 2003, the same day he spoke to Richard Armitage and Karl Rove about Plame. More >>
Jason Leopold: Three Years After The NE Blackout
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 8:30 pm | Jason Leopold
Three years ago this week, a devastating blackout left 50 million people in the dark in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada for nearly three days, forced the closure of the New York Stock Exchange, resulting in a $10 billion economic ... More >>
Documents Show BP Ignored Pipeline Woes for Years
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 8:37 am | Jason Leopold
Hundreds of pages of documents highlighting BP's nearly decade-long neglect of its Prudhoe Bay pipelines, its internal safety regulations, and the company's alleged cover-up of past oil spills that resulted from severely corroded pipelines are archived ... More >>
Leopold: Why Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Filed
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:09 am | Jason Leopold
Syndicated columnist Bob Novak and officials speaking on behalf of White House political adviser Karl Rove have attempted to convince the American people that there wasn't a White House campaign to smear and discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson three ... More >>
Novak Source Warned Reporters On Iraqi WMD Claims
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:47 am | Jason Leopold
Bill Harlow, the former spokesman for the CIA who syndicated columnist Robert Novak claimed Tuesday was a source who confirmed the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson for Novak's July 14, 2003, column, had broken ranks with Bush administration ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Political Benefits of Terror
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 12:40 am | Jason Leopold
With the battle for the House and Senate heating up, the White House has once again resorted to its old tactic - instilling fear in the American public - in hopes of regaining control of both Houses of Congress come November. More >>
Transcripts Reveal Reporter's Role in Plame Outing
Friday, 7 July 2006, 1:24 pm | Jason Leopold
Notebooks belonging to former New York Times reporter Judith Miller indicate she may have been told about covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson by another White House official before her first meeting in late June 2003 with I. Lewis "Scooter" ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Sealed vs. Sealed
Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 1:41 pm | Jason Leopold
Four weeks ago, during the time when we reported that White House political adviser Karl Rove was indicted for crimes related to his role in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, the grand jury empanelled in the case returned an indictment ... More >>
Jason Leopold: George W. Bush and Kenneth Lay
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 11:56 am | Jason Leopold
The Bush administration knew Enron was on a collision course two months before the high-flying energy company collapsed in a wave of accounting scandals that wiped out $60 billion in shareholder value and left thousands of company employees penniless. More >>
Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying
Sunday, 14 May 2006, 7:27 pm | Jason Leopold
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 Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove ... More >>
Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted
Sunday, 14 May 2006, 7:25 pm | Jason Leopold
Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special ... More >>
Last Question is Obstruction for Fitzgerald, Rove
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:55 am | Jason Leopold
Hundreds of pages of emails and memos "discovered" by the White House in February and turned over to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald show that Karl Rove played a much larger role in the Valerie Plame Wilson leak case than he had previously disclosed ... More >>
Leopold: Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 1:41 pm | Jason Leopold
Despite vehement denials by his attorney, who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a "target" nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand ... More >>
Leopold: Target Letter Drives Rove Back To G. Jury
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 1:20 pm | Jason Leopold
Karl Rove's appearance before a grand jury in the CIA leak case Wednesday comes on the heels of a "target letter" sent to his attorney recently by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, signaling that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff may face ... More >>
Leopold: State Memo - '16 Words' Were False
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 1:27 pm | Jason Leopold
Sixteen days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war ... More >>
Bush and Cheney Discussed Plame Prior to Leak
Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 10:55 am | Jason Leopold
In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding mission to ... More >>
