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• Al-Qaeda plot to release deadly gas in New York subways: report

  - 2006-06-17

  NEW YORK AFP — Al-Qaeda planned to release poisonous gas in the New York City subways shortly before the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a synopsis of an exclusive book excerpt published by Time magazine. Ron Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine" reveals that the US government was tipped...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Al-Qaeda, CIA, invasion, Time Magazine

• Rove makes 5th appearance before grand jury

  - 2006-04-27

  WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, testified for the fifth time Wednesday before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Rove left the federal courthouse in Washington after spending three hours and made no statements. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Cooper, E-mail, Fitzgerald, Time Magazine, Washington

• Reporter offers new time line for Rove's CIA disclosure

  - 2005-12-13

  WASHINGTON -- During much of 2004, Karl Rove's lawyer was on notice that his client, a senior aide to President Bush, might have disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA status to a Time magazine reporter. It wasn't until Time's Matt Cooper was under intense pressure from investigators to reveal his...

  Tags: CIA, Cooper, FINANCE, Investment, prosecutor, Time Magazine

• Counsel testifies in leak case

  - 2005-12-08

  WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was back before a federal grand jury on Wednesday in the CIA leak case, with deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove still under investigation. Since the Oct. 28 indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter"...

  Tags: CIA, Cooper, Fitzgerald, Government, identity, Libby, Time Magazine

• 2nd Time reporter to testify in leak case

  - 2005-11-28

  WASHINGTON -- A second Time magazine reporter has agreed to cooperate in the CIA leak case and will testify about her discussions with Karl Rove's attorney, a sign that prosecutors are still exploring charges against the White House aide. Viveca Novak, a reporter in Time's Washington bureau, is...

  Tags: CIA, identity, Time Magazine

• CIA allegedly hid evidence of detainee torture: report

  - 2005-11-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA interrogators apparently tried to cover up the death of an Iraqi "ghost detainee" who died while being interrogated at Abu Ghraib prison, a US magazine reported, after obtaining hundreds of pages of documents, including an autopsy report, about the case. The death of secret detainee...

  Tags: CIA, Time Magazine, torture

• Bush losing faith in Cheney, top aides

  - 2005-10-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush's confidence in his top team of advisors, including all-important vice president Dick Cheney, has fallen sharply in the wake of the CIA leak scandal. In the wake of Friday's indictment of Cheney's top advisor for lying to a grand jury over the...

  Tags: advisor, aide, Bush, CIA, FINANCE, Investment, president, Time Magazine, White House

• CIA to create unit sifting through extremists' public statements

  - 2005-08-07

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA plans to create a new "open source" unit that will track public statements made by extremists and even sift through widely available documents such as phone books, a US magazine reported. The new unit will greatly expand on the work by the Central Intelligence...

  Tags: CIA, phone, Time Magazine

• Rove, Libby identified CIA officer

  - 2005-07-18

  WASHINGTON -- White House strategist Karl Rove was the first person to tell a Time magazine reporter that the wife of an administration critic worked for the CIA, the reporter said Sunday. Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, then confirmed that fact to the reporter. An account...

  Tags: CIA, Cooper, Time Magazine, White House

• Time reporter says Rove was first to tell him about CIA agent

  - 2005-07-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — A Time magazine reporter revealed that he first learned from top White House official Karl Rove that the wife of an ambassador who criticized the Bush administration worked at the CIA. Time reporter Matthew Cooper said Rove told him ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife -- Valerie Plame...

  Tags: agent, CIA, Cooper, MARKETING, Time Magazine