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• Transcripts sought in CIA leak probe

  - 2008-06-28

  WASHINGTON -- A House panel on Friday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for transcripts of interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney during the federal probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Signed by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., the subpoena requests all documents...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, identity, U.S. Department of Justice

• Valerie Plame Distorts Her 'Covert' Status

  - 2007-03-26

  Waxman, Democrats Playing Games With the Law It's a good thing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald never had to prove whether former CIA agent Valerie Plame was "covert" or not before she outed herself with a full-page photo spread in Vanity Fair. Judging from her testimony on Capitol Hill...

  Tags: agent, CIA, identity, Republican

• Jurors wonder why others weren't also on trial

  - 2007-03-07

  WASHINGTON -- A question occupied the jurors in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby as they sat through 14 days of testimony and deliberated for 10 more days: Why is Libby the only person on trial? "There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, identity, juror, Libby, obstruction, president, White House

• The information revolution: how our constant connection to information can both help and hinder our lives.

  - 2007-03-01

  Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson has been called many things in the media over the last four years. He's been called a liar, clueless and even several expletives. But he's also been called courageous, discerning and an American hero. Wilson has been at the center...

  Tags: CIA, identity, Iraq, MARKETING, media

• Lawyers make final arguments in trial of senior White House aide

  - 2007-02-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — Attorneys delivered their closing arguments in the case of former senior White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who is charged with lying about disclosing a CIA operative's name. Libby, 56, has pleaded not guilty to charges of obstructing justice, perjury and making false statements before a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, aide, CIA, identity, leak, prosecutor, White House

• Libby had 'awful memory,' defense witness says

  - 2007-02-14

  Lewis "Scooter" Libby had an "awful memory," the man who replaced him as Vice President Dick Cheney's national security adviser testified at Libby's perjury trial in the CIA leak case. Libby is charged with lying to investigators probing the disclosure of Central Intelligence Agency official Valerie Plame's identity...

  Tags: CIA, identity, lawyer, memory

• Libby didn't spill name, reporters say

  - 2007-02-13

  WASHINGTON -- In the month before a CIA officer's identity was made public, vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was interviewed by at least five journalists and never revealed the operative's name, the reporters testified Monday. During the same period, two other U.S. officials told reporters...

  Tags: CIA, identity, Libby

• Reporter: Rove first to leak CIA info

  - 2007-02-01

  WASHINGTON -- White House adviser Karl Rove told a reporter that an administration critic's wife worked at the CIA, days before her name was made public, the reporter testified Wednesday. Vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby then confirmed Valerie Plame's CIA status a day later during...

  Tags: CIA, Cooper, identity, Libby

• Reporter contradicts Libby's timeline

  - 2007-01-31

  WASHINGTON -- Lewis "Scooter" Libby told New York Times reporter Judith Miller the identity of a covert CIA officer in the two weeks before Libby said he learned about the agent from another reporter, Miller testified Tuesday. Miller was the seventh witness in Libby's perjury and obstruction of...

  Tags: CIA, identity, Libby, Miller, Washington

• Reporter's testimony contradicts Libby's timeline

  - 2007-01-31

  WASHINGTON -- Lewis "Scooter" Libby told New York Times reporter Judith Miller the identity of a covert CIA officer in the two weeks before Libby said he learned about the agent from another reporter, Miller testified Tuesday. Miller was the seventh witness in Libby's perjury and...

  Tags: CIA, identity, Libby, Miller, officer, Washington