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Important Documents

 

Valerie Plame Wilson V. I. Lewis Libby, Karl C. Rove, Richard B. Cheney, PDF.

Plamegate Documents

Fitzgerald's Memorandum:
Libby Said President Authorized Him
to Leak.

Espionage Act

Fitzgerald's 75 page Brief before US Court of Appeals

Indictment of Scooter Libby

Memorandum Opinion of Judge Hogan

Press Release On Indictment by Fitzgerald

Transcript of Patrick Fitzgerald's
Press Conference on Libby Indictment

What I Didn't Find in Africa
by Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson
The essay that started it all.

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The Washington Post and the New York Times
Give Our Readers The Background on the Case
and the Time Line Analysis

 

NEW: The Background on the Case
from The Washington Post

 

NEW: Important Time Line Analysis
of the Investigation into the CIA Leak
Crucial Points in the Case
By the New York Times

 

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Important Legal Analysis from
John Dean, Citizen Spook, and
Elizabeth de la Vega

 

Elizabeth de la Vega

NEW: What to Expect Next?
By Elizabeth de la Vega

De la Vega has recently retired after
serving more than 20 years as a federal prosecutor
in Minneapolis and San Jose. During her tenure,
she was a member of the Organized Crime Strike
Force and Chief of the San Jose Branch of the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.
The grand jury supervised by U.S. attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald has returned an indictment charging Vice
President Dick Cheney's top aide and reputed "alter
ego" I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby with perjury, obstruction
of justice and false statements to the grand jury. But
this indictment does not end the story; rather, a close
reading suggests that these charges are most likely
merely a chapter in a long and tragic story.

 

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Citizen Spook

 

Where Is Patrick Fitzgerald's
Investigation Going?

TreasonGate: What's Mysteriously Missing
From Fitzgerald's Website, Press Conference,
Press Release and The Indictment
from Citizen Spook

Here is an up-to-date analysis of why Special
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has switched directions
in his investigation and has begun to investigate
criminal acts under the Espionage Act with extremely
serious repercussions to the defendants and the
Bush administration.

 

 

Treasongate: U.S. Court of Appeals
Reveals Strength of Fitzgerald's Case
"Special Counsel's Showing Decides The Case"
by Citizen Spook

The Court of Appeals circuit judges had to perform a
preliminary adjudication of the facts and the law in
Treasongate to determine if the press (Miller and
Cooper in this case) were entitled to a special
privilege to protect their leak sources. And in
doing so the Judges put incredible anti-Bush
administration statements on the record which
have not been reported in the main stream media.
These are crushing blows to the Bush administration.

The decision of the Court of Appeals in this matter
gives me hope that there will be serious prosecutions
coming down upon the Treasongate "perpetraitors".

 

 

How Serious are the Crimes of the Leakers
and those Involved in the Leak? See:

United States Court of Appeals Decision
In Re Grand Jury Subpoena, Judith Miller

Both the Court of Appeals, and the District Court
below it, after reviewing eight and a half pages of
classified and redacted evidence presented by Special
Counsel Fitzgerald's office, held that the evidence
was so serious that they could not in good conscience
allow the press to protect the criminals and crimes
that had been committed.

 

 

Treasongate:
The US Attorney General's Office And
President Bush Have No Legal Authority
To Remove Patrick Fitzgerald As Special
Counsel
The foresight of Acting Attorney Gerneral Comey's
“delegation of authority” to U.S. Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald will go down in history as one of the most
stunning and brilliant acts of non-partisan patriotism
this nation has ever seen. Comey's brilliant nuances
are nothing short of genius.

 

 

Treasongate:
Pardons May Be Voided
For Criminal Prosecutions Flowing From
'Cases of Impeachment'

The Constitution Voids Presidential
Pardons For Criminal Convictions Or
Indictments Flowing From "Cases of
Impeachment" Where The Senate
Has Voted To Convict.
Citizen Spook has timed this report to
coincide with John Roberts' confirmation
hearings for Chief Justice of The Supreme
Court.

 

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John Dean

 

An Open Letter To Special
Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald
From Former White House
Counsel John W. Dean

By JOHN W. DEAN
Friday, Nov. 18, 2005
Excuse my being so presumptuous as to
send you this open letter, but the latest
revelation of the testimony, before the
grand jury, by Washington Post reporter
Bob Woodward has raised some fundamental
questions for me.

 

 

 

A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy,
Or Worse?
Reading Between the Lines of the
Libby Indictment

By John Dean
Friday, Nov. 04, 2005

Indeed, when one studies the indictment,
and carefully reads the transcript of the
press conference, it appears Libby's saga
may be only Act Two in a three-act play.
And in my view, the person who should
be tossing and turning at night, in
anticipation of the last act, is the Vice
President of the United States,
Richard B. Cheney.

 

 

LEGAL ANALYSIS:
It Appears That Karl Rove Is In
Serious Trouble
By John Dean
July 15, 2005

Karl Rove's leak to Matt Cooper is now an
established fact. First, there is Matt Cooper's
email record. And Cooper has now confirmed that
he has told the grand jury he spoke with Rove.
There are stories circulating that Rove may have
been told of Valerie Plame's CIA activity by a
journalist, such as Judith Miller, as recently
suggested in Editor & Publisher. If so, that
doesn't exonerate Rove. Rather, it could make
for some interesting pairing under the federal
conspiracy statute (which was the statute most
commonly employed during Watergate).

 

 

 

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Articles on Investigations and Prosecution

 

NEW: Fitzgerald Questions Whether
Equal Justice Prevails in Libby Case

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the Republican-appointed
federal prosecutor in the Plame/CIA leak case,
released a brief statement tonight, after President
Bush commuted the prison sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

 

NEW: Bush Commutes Libby's
Prison Term in CIA Leak Case

By Edwin Chen

President George W. Bush spared Lewis
``Scooter'' Libby from prison in the CIA leak
case, saying his 2 1/2-year term was ``excessive.''

 

 

U.S. VP Cheney's former top aide,
'Scooter' Libby, convicted in CIA leak case

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Once Vice President Dick Cheney's closest adviser,
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby stands convicted of lying
and obstructing a federal media leak investigation
that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.

 

 

Ex-Aide Says Cheney Led
Rebuttal Effort

Vice President Cheney personally orchestrated
his office's 2003 efforts to rebut allegations that the
administration used flawed intelligence to justify
the war in Iraq and discredit a critic who Cheney
believed was making him look foolish, according
to testimony and evidence yesterday in the criminal
trial of his former chief of staff.

 

 

Ex-CIA Official Testifies About
Libby's Calls
Queries' Timing Key To CIA Leak Case

A former high-ranking CIA official testified yesterday
that, when Vice President Cheney's agitated chief
of staff called him out of the blue in June 2003 to
ask what he knew about a CIA-sponsored trip to
Niger, he jumped to get answers.

 

 

New Questions About
Inquiry in C.I.A. Leak
By DAVID JOHNSTON
Sept. 1 — An enduring mystery of the C.I.A.
leak case has been solved in recent days, but
with a new twist: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the
prosecutor, knew the identity of the leaker from
his very first day in the special counsel’s chair,
but kept the inquiry open for nearly two more
years before indicting I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice
President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff,
on obstruction charges.

 

 

Cheney, Rove and Libby
Sued Over CIA Leak

By Daniela Deane
Staff Writer
Friday, July 14, 2006

Former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV
and his wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame,
said today Vice President Dick Cheney and
other Bush administration officials knowingly
lied and abused their power to "exact personal
revenge" against the couple for criticizing Bush's
rationale for going to war.

 

Valerie Plame Wilson V. I. Lewis Libby,
Karl C. Rove, Richard B. Cheney, PDF.

 

 

Target Letter Drives Rove
Back to Grand Jury

By Jason Leopold
26 April 2006

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 imminent indictment, sources that ar
knowledgeable about the probe said Wednesday.

 

 

A 'Concerted Effort'
to Discredit Bush Critic

Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby
as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story

By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer
April 9, 2006

As he drew back the curtain this week
on the evidence against Vice President
Cheney's former top aide, Special Counsel
Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time described
a "concerted action" by "multiple people in the
White House" -- using classified information --
to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" a
critic of President Bush's war in Iraq. Bluntly and
repeatedly, Fitzgerald placed Cheney at the
center of that campaign. Citing grand jury
testimony from the vice president's former
chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Fitzgerald
fingered Cheney as the first to voice a line of
attack that at least three White House
officials would soon deploy against former
ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.

 

 

Why 'Leaker- in-chief'
Charge Harms the President

By Linda Feldmann
April 10, 2006 edition -
WASHINGTON - President Bush has long railed
against leaks of classified information as a threat
to national security; his administration is vigorously
investigating unauthorized revelations of classified
material to the press about secret overseas
prisons and warrantless wiretapping. Now, a
revelation of grand jury testimony establishes
Bush himself as a player in White House
efforts to discredit an Iraq war critic through
the use of classified information.

 

 

Leak - Hating President
As Leaker - In - Chief?
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:13 a.m. ET

President Bush insists a president ''better
mean what he says.'' Those words could
return to haunt him. After long denouncing
leaks of all kinds, Bush is confronted with a
statement -- unchallenged by his aides --
that he authorized a leak of classified material
to undermine an Iraq war critic.

 

 

Intelligence Leaked by
Aide to Cheney Was in Dispute
By DAVID E. SANGER and DAVID BARSTOW

WASHINGTON, April 8 — When President Bush
authorized Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of
staff to reveal previously classified intelligence to a
reporter about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain
uranium, that information was already being
discredited by several senior officials in the
administration, interviews conducted during
and since that crucial period in June and
July of 2003 show.

 

 

 

White House Tries to Quell
Anger Over Leak Claim
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, April 7 — The White House
tried today to quell the furor over the
leaking of sensitive prewar intelligence on Iraq,
as President Bush's spokesman insisted that
the president had the authority to declassify
and release information "in the public interest" and
had never done so for political reasons.

 

 

Libby: Bush Authorized
Plamegate Leak

By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006; 4:54 PM

A former top aide to Vice President Cheney
told a federal grand jury investigating the leak
of a CIA agent's identity that President Bush
authorized him to disclose classified intelligence
information about Iraq as a way of rebutting criticism
from the agent's husband, according to court papers
filed by prosecutors.

 

 

Fitzgerald Previews Government's
Case Against Libby
By 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 the ex-White House official,
who is accused of lying to the FBI and a grand jury
about his role in the leak of a covert CIA operative.

 

 

 

Libby Attorneys Identify
CIA Officials in Plame Leak
by 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 Friday evening.

 

 

 

Libby Trial May Be
Embarrassment for Bush
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
Sat Mar 18, 4:08 PM ET
Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's
former top aide are signaling they may
delve deeply at his criminal trial into infighting
among the White House, the CIA and the
State Department over pre-Iraq war
intelligence failures.

 

 

 

Judge Tries Compromise
on Briefs Libby Is Seeking
By NEIL A. LEWIS
A federal judge ruled on Friday that I. Lewis
Libby Jr. was entitled to review a limited amount
of information from highly classified intelligence
documents in order to defend himself against
charges that he lied about his role in disclosing
the identity of a C.I.A. operative. Confronted with
a legal issue that has the potential to sabotage
the prosecution of Mr. Libby, the judge, Reggie
B. Walton, sought a compromise to allow the
case to go forward.

 

 

Libby's Lawyers Say Prosecutor
Acted Unconstitutionally
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — Lawyers for Vice
President Dick Cheney's former top aide asked a
federal judge on Thursday to dismiss his indictment,
saying the special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak
case lacked the authority to bring the charges.
Lawyers for the former aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr.,
said his indictment violated the Constitution
because the special counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald,
was not appointed by the president with the consent
of the Senate. They added that the appointment
violated federal law because the attorney general
did not supervise the investigation. Only Congress,
the lawyers said, can approve such an arrangement.

 

 

 

Ex-Cheney Aide Testified
Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says
By NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — I. Lewis Libby Jr., the
former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,
told a grand jury that he was authorized by his
"superiors" to disclose classified information to
reporters about Iraq's weapons capability in June
and July 2003, according to a document filed by
a federal prosecutor.

 

 

 

Reporter Recounts Talk About
Karl Rove and C.I.A. Leak
By DAVID JOHNSTON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 - A reporter for
Time magazine said Sunday that a lawyer
for Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser,
was surprised when she suggested to him in
the first half of 2004 that Mr. Rove had probably
been a source for the magazine's July 2003
article that discussed the C.I.A. officer at the
heart of the leak case.

 

 

Libby May Have Tried to Mask
Cheney's Role

By Carol D. Leonnig and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 13, 2005;

In the opening days of the CIA leak investigation
in early October 2003, FBI agents working the
case already had in their possession a wealth of
valuable evidence. There were White House phone
and visitor logs, which clearly documented the
administration's contacts with reporters.And they
had something that law enforcement officials would
later describe as their "guidebook" for the opening
phase of the investigation: the daily, diary-like notes
compiled by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then Vice
President Cheney's chief of staff, that chronicled
crucial events inside the White House in the weeks
before the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame
was publicly disclosed.

 

 

 

Post Executive Editor Discusses
Bob Woodward: Reporter's Silence
in CIA Leak Case Scrutinized
Leonard Downie Jr.
Washington Post Executive Editor
Friday, November 18, 2005; 10:00 AM
Washington Post executive editor Leonard
Downie Jr. was online Friday, Nov. 18, at
10 a.m. ET to discuss Bob Woodward 's
revelation that he may have been the first
reporter told of Valerie Plame 's identity
as a CIA operative. Woodward apologized
to The Washington Post Wednesday for
withholding that information for over two years.
The transcript plus other documents follow.

 

 

 

White House Won't Rule Out
Presidential Pardon for Libby

The White House refused Tuesday to rule out
a presidential pardon for Lewis "Scooter" Libby,
the former vice presidential aide indicted for
allegedly obstructing a grand jury investigation
into the White House unmasking of a secret
CIA officer.

 

 

Senator Harry Reid Demands
Investigation
Read the Transcript of Senator
Harry Reid's Statement and View
the Press Conference:
America deserves better than this.
They also deserve a searching and
comprehensive investigation into how
the Bush administration brought this
country to war. Key questions that
need to be answered include:
– How did the Bush administration
assemble its case for war against Iraq?
We heard what Colonel Wilkerson said.

 

 

 

The Most Important Criminal Case
in American History
By James Moore
October 19, 2005

Patrick Fitzgerald has before him the most
important criminal case in American history.
Watergate, by comparison, was a random
burglary in an age of innocence. The investigator’s
prosecutorial authority in this present case is
not constrained by any regulation. If he finds a
thread connecting the leak to something greater,
Fitzgerald has the legal power to follow it to the
web in search of the spider.

 

 

 

On Scooter Libby and His White
House Friends
David Addington to Replace Libby

“Cheney has tried to increase executive
power with a series of bold actions -- some
so audacious that even conservatives on
the Supreme Court sympathetic to Cheney's
view have rejected them as overreaching. The
vice president's point man in this is longtime
aide David Addington, who serves as Cheney's
top lawyer.

Where there has been controversy over the past
four years, there has often been Addington. He
was a principal author of the White House memo
justifying torture of terrorism suspects. He was a
prime advocate of arguments supporting the holding
of terrorism suspects without access to courts.”

 

 

Libby Indicted On Five Counts
The charges are felonies.

Read the Indictment Document here.

 

 

Libby Faces 5 Charges
By DAVID STOUT

I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's
chief of staff and one of the most powerful
figures in the Bush administration, was formally
accused today of lying and obstruction of justice
in an inquiry into the unmasking of a covert C.I.A.
officer.

 

 

Cheney Aide Appears Likely to
Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny
By DAVID JOHNSTON
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Lawyers in the
C.I.A. leak case said Thursday that they
expected I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President
Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to be indicted
on Friday, charged with making false
statements to the grand jury.

 

 

Grand Jurors Hear Counsel
on Leak Case

By DAVID JOHNSTON
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - The special counsel
in the C.I.A. leak inquiry met for more than
three hours with the federal grand jury on
Wednesday and later talked privately with
the district judge in the case as the White
House waited out another day in the
expectation of possible indictments.

After the grand jury session, the prosecutor,
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, discussed the case for
about 45 minutes in the chambers of Judge
Thomas F. Hogan, the chief judge of the district
court who has presided over the leak case,
said the judge's administrative assistant,
Sheldon L. Snook.

 

 

Prosecutor Likely Seeking
Indictments

By DAVID JOHNSTON
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - The special counsel in the
C.I.A. leak case has told associates he has no plans
to issue a final report about the results of the investigation,
heightening the expectation that he intends to bring
indictments, lawyers in the case and law enforcement
officials said yesterday.

 

 

Washington Post Reports:

Cheney’s office is focus in leak case
Sources cite role of feud with CIA

As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's
name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special
prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in
on the role of Vice President Cheney's office,
according to lawyers familiar with the case and
government officials. The prosecutor has
assembled evidence that shows Cheney's
long-running feud with the CIA contributed to
the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame.

 

 

Cheney may be target of probe
By James Gordon Mee, Thomas M. DeFrank
and Kenneth R. Bazinet Daily News Washington Bureau

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

A special prosecutor's intensifying focus into who
outed a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice
President Cheney himself is involved, knowledgeable
sources confirmed yesterday. At least one source
and one reporter who have testified in the probe said
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney's
role in the Valerie Plame affair. In addition, at least six
current and former Cheney staffers - most members of
the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the
grand jury, including the vice president's top honcho,
Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and two top Cheney national
security lieutenants. Cheney's name has come up amid
indications Fitzgerald may be edging closer to a
blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a
secret snitch.

 

 

New York Daily News source
believes senior White House official
has flipped in leak case

The case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame is
set to explode. The New York Daily News is set
to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed
source interviewed by the newspaper believes a
senior White House official has flipped and may
be helping the prosecutor in the case.

 

 

 

Reporter and NY Times
Are Criticized for Misstep
Media Analysts Question Decisions
by Miller, Newspaper's Editors
Regarding Leak

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 17, 2005; A02

Media analysts assailed New York Times reporter
Judith Miller and her editors yesterday for what
they called a series of missteps and questionable
decisions revealed in two lengthy articles about
the problems of covering the CIA leak investigation
while defending the embattled journalist.

 

 

 

CIA Leak Scandal:
Judy Miller and the Times Speak
David Corn

Finally, theNew York Times and Judith Miller
speak, and the paper and reporter leave their
readers with as many questions as answers.

 

 

 

The Miller Case:
A Notebook, a Cause,
a Jail Cell and a Deal
By DON VAN NATTA Jr., ADAM LIPTAK
and CLIFFORD J. LEVY

In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a
reporter for The New York Times, amid
notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons,
appear two small words: "Valerie Flame."

Ms. Miller should have written Valerie Plame.
That name is at the core of a federal grand
jury investigation that has reached deep into
the White House. At issue is whether Bush
administration officials leaked the identity of
Ms. Plame, an undercover C.I.A. operative, to
reporters as part of an effort to blunt criticism
of the president's justification for the war
in Iraq.

 

 

 

Judith Miller Speaks Out
My Four Hours Testifying in
the Federal Grand Jury Room
By Judith Miller

In July 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former
ambassador, created a firestorm by publishing
an essay in The New York Times that accused
the Bush administration of using faulty intelligence
to justify the war in Iraq. The administration, he
charged, ignored findings of a secret mission he
had undertaken for the Central Intelligence Agency -
findings, he said, that undermined claims that Iraq
was seeking uranium for a nuclear bomb.

 

 

 

Prosecutor in Leak Inquiry Orders
Rove to Return Again
By DAVID JOHNSTON

The special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case
has summoned Karl Rove, the senior White
House adviser, to return next week to testify
to a federal grand jury in a step that could
mean charges will be filed in the case, lawyers
in the case said Thursday.

The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, has held
discussions in recent days with lawyers for
several administration officials suggesting that
he is considering whether to charge them with
a crime over the disclosure of an intelligence
operative's identity in a 2003 newspaper column.

 

 

 

The Plame Case: How about
Focusing on the Real Issues?
By Larry Johnson
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Friday 07 October 2005

The investigation into which administration officials
compromised Plame, wife of former US ambassador
Joseph Wilson, is nearing completion. Lost in the
recent spurt of press reporting, however, is the fact
that the outing of Ms. Plame (and, as night follows
the day, her carefully cultivated network of spies)
has done great damage to US clandestine operations -
not to mention those she recruited over her
distinguished career.

 

 

 

Four House Committees to Vote
on Demanding CIA Leak Documents
from Cabinet Departments

Watch and Listen Live on the Internet

Rep. Conyers stated: "This resolution is necessary
because the Bush administration refuses to police
itself in the midst of criminal and ethical misconduct.
In July 2003, over two years ago, a Bush administration
official committed one of the most serious breaches
of national security in recent history by disclosing
to the press the identity of an undercover CIA operative.

 

 

 

What was Judith Miller Up To?
By William E. Jackson, Jr.
Was she simply a recipient of the leak of
Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent--or
did she carry that news to others herself?
Speculation grows that the special prosecutor
is looking at the possibility that unnamed
journalists "started a chain of conversations,"
passing information about Plame to administration
officials.

 

 

 

21 Administration Officials Involved
In Treason Leak
The cast of administration characters with known
connections to the outing of an undercover CIA
agent: Including Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Condi Rice,
and Alberto Gonzales. All documented and linked to their
sources

 

 

 

Eight Days in July
By Frank Rich
July 24, 2005

When a conspiracy is unraveling, and it's every
liar and his lawyer for themselves, the story takes
on a momentum of its own. When the conspiracy
is, at its heart, about the White House's twisting
of the intelligence used to sell the American people
a war - and its desperate efforts to cover up that
flimflam once the W.M.D. cupboard proved bare
and the war went south - the story will not end
until the war really is in its "last throes."

 

 

 

Forgery of Iraq-War-Justifying
Documents Done in the U.S.

According to a Former Top U.S. Intelligence
Official on Los Angeles Radio Program

Los Angeles, Ca.--Vincent Cannistraro is the
former Director of National Security Council Intelligence
under Ronald Reagan (’84-’87) and the former Chief
of Operations of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center,
who led the investigation into the bombing of Pan
Am Flight 103. On April 3, 2005, he was interviewed
on Ian Masters' Background Briefing radio program,
which broadcasts from Los Angeles, California on
public radio. In the interview, Mr. Cannistraro made
a number of withering observations on the Bush
administration and the process failures that led
to war.

 

 

 

For Bush, Effect of Investigation
of C.I.A. Leak Case Is Uncertain
By Richard W. Stevenson
WASHINGTON, July 23 - His former secretary of state,
most of his closest aides and a parade of other senior
officials have testified to a grand jury.

 

 

 

'TreasonGate — What did
Bush know, and when did he know it?'
Posted on Saturday, July 23 @ 08:56:10 EDT
By Thom Hartmann

 

 

 

CIA leak investigation turns
to possible perjury, obstruction
of justice
Posted on Saturday, July 23 @ 09:03:19 EDT
By Douglas Frantz, Sonni Efron and Richard B.
Schmitt, Los Angeles Times

 

 

 

Somebody is lying: Rove, Libby
accounts in CIA case differ with
those of reporters
Posted on Friday, July 22 @ 10:05:55 EDT

 

 

 

Plame’s identity marked as secret
Memo central to probe of leak spelled out
information’s status

By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei
The Washington Post
July 21, 2005

A classified State Department memorandum central
to a federal leak investigation contained information
about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked
"(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush
administration official who read it should have been
aware the information was classified, according to
current and former government officials.

 

 

 

CIA Agents Letter to US Senate
and House
18 July 2005
AN OPEN STATEMENT TO THE LEADERS OF
THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENT-
ATIVES AND THE SENATE

The Republican National Committee has circulated
talking points to supporters to use as part of a
coordinated strategy to discredit Ambassador
Joseph Wilson and his wife. As part of this campaign
a common theme is the idea that Ambassador
Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame was not undercover
and deserved no protection.

 

 

 

Bush Says He will Fire Anyone
Who Breaks Law
President appears to qualify standard for
firing in CIA-leak case
MSNBC July 18, 2005
President Bush said Monday that if anyone on his
staff committed a crime in the CIA-leak case, that
person will "no longer work in my administration."
His statement represented a shift from a previous
comment, when he said that he would fire anyone
shown to have leaked information that exposed the
identity of a CIA officer.

 

 

 

Reporter: Rove Was First Source
on CIA Leak
July 17, 2005
White House political aide Karl Rove
was the first person to tell a Time magazine reporter
that the wife of a prominent critic of the Bush
administration's Iraq policy was a CIA officer, the
reporter said in an article Sunday. Time correspondent
Matthew Cooper said he told a grand jury last week that
Rove told him the woman worked at the "agency," or
CIA, on weapons of mass destruction issues, and ended
the call by saying "I've already said too much."

 

 

 

A Fascinating Conflict of Truth Vs.
Falsity, Spin Vs. Honest Speaking:
Decide for Yourself
From the Transcript for July 17 NBC News'
Meet the Press With Tim Russert

 

 

 

State Dept. Memo Gets Scrutiny in
Leak Inquiry on C.I.A. Officer
By RICHARD STEVENSON

Prosecutors in the C.I.A. leak case have shown
intense interest in a 2003 State Department
memorandum that explained how a former
diplomat came to be dispatched on an intelligence-
gathering mission and the role of his wife, a C.I.A.
officer, in the trip,
Published: July 16, 2005

 

 

 

Rove-gate: Who Leaked to the
Leakers?
This isn't about Karl Rove
What if Karl Rove isn't guilty of knowingly leaking
Valerie Plame's name as a covert CIA agent involved
in nuclear proliferation issues? By Justin Raimondo,
AntiWar.com

 

 

Rove Reportedly Held Phone
Talk on C.I.A. Officer
By DAVID JOHNSTON
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: July 15, 2005 by New York
Times

 

 

 

Karl Rove's America
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 15, 2005
John Gibson of Fox News says that Karl
Rove should be given a medal. I agree: Mr.
Rove should receive a medal from the American
Political Science Association for his
pioneering discoveries about modern
American politics. The medal can, if
necessary, be delivered to his prison
cell.

 

 

GOP Talking Points on Rove
Seek to Discredit Wilson
See how the GOP and the Republican
National Committee gang attack opponents:
Raw Story obtained an exclusive copy of
Republican talking points on Bush adviser
Karl Rove's leaking the name of a CIA agent
to a reporter, circulated by the Republican
National Committee to "D.C. Talkers" in
Washington.

 

 

 

GOP on Offense in Defense
of Rove
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

 

 

 

'The President Should Fire Rove'!
Today Show Interview
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson talks about
who he believes is responsible for the outing
of his wife.
July 14, 2005
By Jamie Gangel

 

 

 

Plamegate
Debunking Rove's Spin
July 13, 2005
by Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney,
Mipe Okunseinde and Christy Harvey at
The Progress Report: an extensive
link to resources and information

 

 

At White House, a Day
of Silence on Rove's Role in
C.I.A. Leak
By Richard W. Stevenson
Published: July 12, 2005
Nearly two years after stating that any
administration official found to have been
involved in leaking the name of an undercover
C.I.A. officer would be fired, and assuring
that Karl Rove and other senior aides to
President Bush had nothing to do with the
disclosure, the White House on Monday
refused to answer any questions about
new evidence of Mr. Rove's role in the
matter.

 

 

Press Briefing by
Scott McClellan
Transcript: White House.
This is the press conference
where the press begins to get
tough! History is in the making
here. Transcript is from the
Office of the Press Secretary
July 11, 2005

 

 

 

Senate Report On Niger
Uranium in a PDF File

 

 

President Bush talking
with reporters after meeting
with Cabinet members.
Past White House Briefings and
Transcripts on C.I.A. Leak Case

 

 

 

White House Scrambles to
Stop Criminal Indictment of Rove
By Doug Thompson

The Bush Administration is scrambling
behind the scenes to stop a criminal
indictment against Presidential advisor
Karl Rove for disclosing classified
information to reporters in an attempt
to discredit a White House critic.

 

 

 

Letter To Bush --
Rove Needs To Come Clean
Or Resign Wednesday, 6 July
2005, 2:35 pm Opinion: US Rep.
John Conyers

 

 

 

Plamegate Facts and
Resources an extensive
link to major stories in the
press. From Progress Report

 

 

Bush Knew About Leak of
CIA Operative's Name
Witnesses told a federal grand jury
President George W. Bush knew
about, and took no action to stop,
the release of a covert CIA
operative's name to a journalist
in an attempt to discredit her
husband, a critic of administration
policy in Iraq.

 

 

An Open Letter to
President Bush--Sign It Now
Mr. President, despite carefully worded
denials, it is now apparent that your most
senior advisor discussed the identity of an
undercover CIA agent with a reporter. His
clear aim was to discredit that agent’s husband
who had dared to challenge the administration
in the buildup to the war. You cannot remain
silent. Fire Karl Rove. Click on the image to
sign John Kerry's letter to the President:

 

 

All About Karl Rove in a Corner
November 2004
Atlantic Monthly

Karl Rove is at his most formidable when running
close races, and his skills would be notable even
if he used no extreme methods. But he does use
them. His campaign history shows his willingness,
when challenged, to employ savage tactics
by Joshua Green

 

 

 

John Dean Articles On Plamegate

The Ambassador's Article
Here's how it all started:
"What I Didn't Find in Africa"

 

 

 

Joseph Wilson Fights Back
with a letter to the Senate Select Intelligence
Committee. Contrast Wilson's facts to
William Safire's New York Times column,
which attempts to destroy Mr. Wilson's
credibility in order to save President Bush.
Don't take our word for it, you be the judge!

 

 

The Empire Strikes Back!
The Ambassador's wife is targeted.
One more criminal offense to investigate.
One more reason to appoint a
Special Prosecutor. By John Dean

 

John Dean gives the Wilsons
a sling shot and a stone to slay the
giant Empire. John Dean's latest article
in Salon.com outlines the power of a single civil
suit aimed at a corrupt administration.
Dean says the Wilsons should file a
lawsuit. During the Nixon years, the
DNC filed the shot that was heard
around the world causing Watergate
to explode and Nixon to resign.

 

 

John Dean takes a further look
at the criminal implications of Ambassador
Wilson's case and the leak exposing his
wife Valerie Plame.

 

 

The Early Articles

 

NEW: Robert Novak at Center of
Leak Inquiry
By LORNE MANLY and ADAM LIPTAK,
December 31, 2004, New York Times

 

 

William Safire In the Cross-
Checking Circle
Sixteen Truthful Words
Safire Attacks Wilson
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: July 19, 2004

 

 

Cheney Questioned In
Plame Leak Probe
Investigators question Vice President
Dick Cheney recently in the probe
of who in the Bush White House
leaked the name of a CIA
operative

 

 

The President May Be Indicted
Reported by Katherine Yurica
Witnesses have testified before a federal
grand jury implicating President George
W. Bush in the illegal outing of Valerie
Plame, a CIA covert operative.

 

 

 

Bush, Atty Huddle On 
CIA Leak June 2, 2004
Bush Knew About Leak of 
CIA Operative's Name
The President May Be 
Indicted 
Cheney Questioned in Plame 
Leak Probe
Cheney's Staff Focus 
of Probe

Bush Hires Lawyer
CBS reports the President has hired
a lawyer "Just in case" he's going to
be asked questions about the illegal
exposure of Ambassador Joe Wilson's
wife. Is this the beginning of the end?
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