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• The CIA Leak: Boring In on the Veep

  - 2007-02-12

  The Scooter Libby trial has put a new focus on Vice President Dick Cheney's own role in the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson's identity. When the CIA on July 11, 2003, sent over a draft statement taking responsibility for President George W. Bush's inaccurate assertion that Iraq had...

  Tags: bond, CIA, FBI, FINANCE, Government, Investment, uranium

• Cheney scripted Libby response, ex–aide says

  - 2007-01-26

  WASHINGTON -- Vice President Cheney personally directed his office's media response to a critic who accused the Bush administration of ignoring evidence that Iraq had not sought uranium in Africa, a former Cheney aide said in federal court Thursday. In July 2003, Cheney scripted quotes for...

  Tags: Africa, aide, CIA, Iraq, Libby, U.S. Department of State, uranium

• A gotcha! Gone bad: how the get-Bush mentality leads to dumb errors

  - 2006-05-08

  'CHENEY's Aide Says President Approved Leak." So blared the Page One headline of the April 7 New York Times. It is a story as old as The Flood that the mainstream media are adamantine in their bias against the Bush presidency in general and the Iraq War in particular. But...

  Tags: administration, Bush, CIA, Iraq, MARKETING, media, president, uranium

• The Leaker in Chief?

  - 2006-04-17

  George W. Bush likes to be seen as a man who dwells above the pettiness of political warfare. He has said he doesn't read the newspapers and shrugs off media criticism as carping of the chattering classes. Especially since 9/11, he has said that he looks to a higher power...

  Tags: administration, Bush, CIA, Iraq, leak, Miller, president, prosecutor, uranium, White House

• Allegation is amended in case against Libby

  - 2006-04-13

  The special counsel investigating Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has amended one of the allegations against the White House aide that was contained in documents filed in federal court last week. The change downplays the importance that the CIA gave to Iraq's purported...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Investment, Iraq, Libby, uranium

• What did Bush do? A perspective on the press leak

  - 2006-04-11

  Some questions and answers about developments in the controversy over President Bush's decision to leak parts of the major prewar U.S. intelligence assessment of Iraq's alleged illegal-weapons programs: Q. How did the latest chapter in the controversy begin? A. It erupted with the filing of a brief in...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, identity, Iraq, leak, Libby, U.S., uranium

• Specter calls on Bush to speak about information leak

  - 2006-04-10

  WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday that President Bush should speak publicly about a leak of classified intelligence that was released to rebut an Iraq war critic. "The president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people," Sen. Arlen...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, Iraq, leak, Libby, president, SOFTWARE, uranium

• The Italian job: if anything, a visit to Rome only deepens the Niger forgeries mystery.(IRAQ)

  - 2006-03-01

  ROME-- IN THIS ANCIENT CITY, JUST AS IN Washington, the origins of the infamous Niger yellowcake forgeries--the documents purporting to prove that Iraq was contracting to purchase vast quantities of uranium and cited by George W. Bush in his 2003 State of...

  Tags: CIA, Government, Iraq, job, Rome, uranium

• Libby says his superiors OK'd the leak

  - 2006-02-10

  WASHINGTON -- A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers. Special prosecutor Patrick...

  Tags: CIA, Iraq, Libby, superior, uranium, White House

• French spy service warned US about bogus Niger uranium claim: ex-official

  - 2005-12-11

  LOS ANGELES AFP — France's spy service tried for months to warn the CIA that there was no evidence to support a US allegation that Iraq had tried to purchase nuclear weapons material in Africa, a French former intelligence official told a US newspaper. For more than a year...

  Tags: CIA, France, Iraq, uranium