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Leopold: Evidence Suggests White House Conspiracy
Sunday, 9 April 2006, 10:55 pm | Jason Leopold
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald stated in a court filing late Wednesday in the CIA leak case that his investigators have obtained evidence during the course of the two-year-old probe that proves "multiple" White House officials conspired ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Bush at Center of Intelligence Leak
Friday, 7 April 2006, 12:45 am | Jason Leopold
Attorneys and current and former White House officials close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson said Thursday that President Bush gave Vice President Dick Cheney the authorization in mid-June 2003 to disclose ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Enron's Kazillion Dollar Bash
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 11:34 am | Jason Leopold
Former Enron president Jeffrey Skilling and the company's founder Ken Lay will testify in their own defense in a Houston courtroom this week where they've been on trial since January, charged with numerous counts of federal securities fraud, insider ... More >>
Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start
Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 11:28 am | Jason Leopold
The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to investigate the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson found out the identity of the Bush administration official who disclosed her undercover status to syndicated columnist Robert Novak ... More >>
Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:37 am | Jason Leopold
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 Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have remained close ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Woodward's Plame Leak Deep Throat
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:55 am | Jason Leopold
He is referred to as "official one" and he is the mysterious senior Bush administration official who unmasked the identity of an undercover CIA operative to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003 and conservative columnist Robert Novak a ... More >>
Fitzgerald Previews Government Case Against Libby
Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 11:10 am | Jason Leopold
The criminal trial against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, may still be nearly a year away, but the special counsel prosecuting the case has already provided a preview into the government's criminal case against ... More >>
Attorneys Identify CIA Officials in Plame Leak
Monday, 20 March 2006, 1:06 pm | Jason Leopold
The identity of intelligence officials who are thought to have passed information about covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, surfaced in a federal court document filed ... More >>
Leopold: Obstruction Trial May Jog Libby's Memory
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:40 am | Jason Leopold
Attorneys representing Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff in the CIA leak case believe they have a rock solid defense to present in their client's perjury and obstruction of justice trial expected to begin next year. More >>
Leopold: CIA Leak Path: Cheney, Libby, Woodward
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 11:31 am | Jason Leopold
In mid-June 2003, when former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's criticism against the White House's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence started to make national headlines, Vice President Dick Cheney told his former chief of staff and close confidant I. Lewis ... More >>
Leopold: Details Emerge in Latest Plame Emails
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 3:48 pm | Jason Leopold
The White House confirmed Tuesday that it recently turned over to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald 250 pages of emails from the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney related to covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Enron Trial Avoids the Real Ripoff
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 1:26 pm | Jason Leopold
More than 400 pages of documents released by federal energy regulators suggest that former Enron chairman Ken Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling were aware that the company's west coast traders may have broken the law by using manipulative ... More >>
Plame Whistleblowers Targeted by Administration
Monday, 27 February 2006, 10:31 am | Jason Leopold
Two top Bush administration officials who played an active role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, have been removing from their jobs, career State Deptartment weapons experts who have spoken to investigators during the past two ... More >>
NSC, Cheney Aides Conspired to Out CIA Operative
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 1:11 pm | Jason Leopold
The investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is heating up. Evidence is mounting that senior officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Council conspired to unmask Plame Wilson's identity ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Gonzales Withholding Plame Emails
Friday, 17 February 2006, 11:07 am | Jason Leopold
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have revealed this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not turned over emails to the special prosecutor's office that may incriminate Vice President ... More >>
Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:29 pm | Jason Leopold
Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley led a campaign beginning in March 2003 to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for publicly criticizing the Bush administration's intelligence on Iraq, according ... More >>
Fitzgerald Focuses on Missing White House Emails
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 12:33 am | Jason Leopold
More than two dozen emails sent to various senior Bush administration officials between May 2003 and early July 2003 related to covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are missing, and the special prosecutor ... More >>
Jason Leopold: A Night of Fear Mongering, Big Time
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 11:33 am | Jason Leopold
Get ready for three more years of bloody hell. That's the message President Bush seems to have sent Congress and the rest of the world in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. More >>
Jason Leopold: Bush Ignored 9/11 Warnings
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 12:09 am | Jason Leopold
President Bush and Vice President Cheney have publicly stated that the top-secret domestic spying program Bush authorized in 2002 could have thwarted the 9/11 attacks had the controversial, and possibly illegal, measure been in effect prior to the ... More >>
Jason Leopold: NSA Spying Evolved Pre-9/11
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 2:33 pm | Jason Leopold
In the months before 9/11, thousands of American citizens were inadvertently swept up in wiretaps, had their emails monitored, and were being watched as they surfed the Internet by spies at the super-secret National Security Agency, former NSA and ... More >>
