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Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:55 am | Jason Leopold
The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Fitzgerald Maintains Focus on Rove
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 11:58 am | Jason Leopold
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is said to have spent the past month preparing evidence he will present to a grand jury alleging that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove knowingly made false statements to FBI and Justice Department investigators ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The NSA Spy Engine - Echelon
Monday, 9 January 2006, 3:06 pm | Jason Leopold
A clandestine National Security Agency spy program code-named Echelon was likely responsible for tapping into the emails, telephone calls and facsimiles of thousands of average American citizens over the past four years in its effort to identify people ... More >>
Leopold: NSA Destroyed Evidence of Domestic Spying
Monday, 9 January 2006, 2:49 pm | Jason Leopold
The National Security Agency, the top-secret spy shop that has been secretly eavesdropping on Americans under a plan authorized by President Bush four years ago, destroyed the names of thousands of Americans and US companies it collected on its own volition ... More >>
Leopold: Bolton Testimony Revealed Domestic Spying
Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 1:24 pm | Jason Leopold
This past spring, an explosive nugget of information slipped out during the confirmation hearings of John Bolton - nominated by President Bush to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations - that in hindsight should have blown the lid off Bush's four-year-old ... More >>
Bush-NSA Spying in Defiance of Congress, Court
Friday, 30 December 2005, 3:02 pm | Jason Leopold
The Bush administration was publicly admonished by a senate committee, and a special surveillance court, in two separate instances for repeatedly trying to skirt the law in obtaining top-secret warrants to spy on American citizens suspected of having ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Rice Authorized NSA To Spy On UNSC
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:15 pm | Jason Leopold
President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitored private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 to determine ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Case Against Karl Rove
Sunday, 18 December 2005, 3:51 pm | Jason Leopold
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the second grand jury investigating the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson for several hours Friday. Unless Rove's attorney intervenes at the 11th hour yet again, Fitzgerald is expected to ... More >>
Leopold: For Rove, New Testimony, New Problems
Saturday, 10 December 2005, 2:55 pm | Jason Leopold
There are unanswered questions about whether Karl Rove was truthful when he was first interviewed by FBI and Justice Department investigators in early October 2003 regarding whether he played a role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. According ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Donald Rumsfeld's War
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:55 pm | Jason Leopold
The US military death toll in Iraq surpassed 2,100 soldiers last month, and despite the fact that there is a strong debate about permanently pulling troops out of the country, there are still unanswered questions as to whether there are actually enough ... More >>
Criminal Trial On CA Energy Crisis May Start Soon
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 2:02 pm | Jason Leopold
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to issue a ruling soon on a key piece of evidence that will help kick-start the long awaited criminal trial involving Houston-based Reliant Energy and the company's alleged scheme to boost its profits by shutting ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Rove Running Out of Answers, Time
Monday, 5 December 2005, 1:41 pm | Jason Leopold
The attorney representing Karl Rove in the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson has made a desperate attempt to ensure President Bush's deputy chief of staff does not become the subject of a criminal indictment. More >>
Jason Leopold: Fitzgerald Targets Rove Again
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:48 pm | Jason Leopold
Continuing his two-year-old investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA agent, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week that could lead to a criminal indictment ... More >>
Jason Leopold: How Pre-War Iraq Intel Was Cooked
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:11 pm | Jason Leopold
Democrats leading the charge into the second phase of a bipartisan investigation into pre-war Iraq intelligence have said this week that they will spend the next month or so working with Pentagon officials who last week agreed to probe a top secret ... More >>
Leopold: Woodward Provides Clues About His Source
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:09 pm | Jason Leopold
Embattled Washington Post editor Bob Woodward provided an important clue that may help shed light on the identity of the person who told him in June 2003 that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent. More >>
'01 CIA Testimony Suggests Iraq Intel Manipulation
Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 2:38 pm | Jason Leopold
President George W. Bush's attempt Friday to silence critics who say his administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq is undercut by congressional testimony given in February 2001 by former CIA Director George Tenet, who said that Iraq posed no ... More >>
Despite His Demeanor, Rove's Still a Target
Monday, 14 November 2005, 12:38 am | Jason Leopold
The special prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson is trying to determine whether Deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove lied to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents about his role in the case in October ... More >>
VP Lied As White House Sought To Defuse Leak Inq.
Monday, 7 November 2005, 4:34 pm | Jason Leopold
Months after Plame’s identity was disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak, Cheney continued to hide the fact that he and his aides were intimately involved in disseminating classified information about her to journalists. More >>
Jason Leopold: Now It’s About The Niger Forgeries
Saturday, 29 October 2005, 4:57 pm | Jason Leopold
On Friday, after securing a five-count criminal indictment against Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, for lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when he knew it in regard to the outing of a covert CIA agent, ... More >>
Judith Miller's Unusual Relationship With Iraq Grp
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:15 am | Jason Leopold
Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a "middleman" between an American military unit and the Iraqi National Congress while she was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in April ... More >>
