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  • Iraq : Classified memo reveals Iraqi prisoners as "starving" By Jason Leopold
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Online Journal Mars 28, 2008
    A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is "so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”
    “The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to do the right thing in terms of caring for the prisoners even with our own dollars, or release them,” says the memo, written late last month by Maj. Gen. John Kelly, (...)

  • Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    By Jason Leopold August 5, 2005
    Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear scientists on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the scientists’ oil company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge of both companies’ business dealings.
    Just last (...)

  • State Department Memo: "16 Words" Were False
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
    The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (...)

  • NEWS JUNKIE
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Leopold
    Please consider buying a copy from Amazon or at a bookstore near you. Check out www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview and a sample chapter
    From Publishers Weekly
    Leopold, one of the reporters who broke the Enron story, is now breaking his own story: how he got addicted to cocaine, committed grand theft, cleaned himself up and found happiness as a "news junkie." While residential rehab programs and an incredibly committed wife were key to his turnaround, what saved his (...)

  • White House ’Discovers’ 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak By Jason Leopold
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday 24 February 2006
    The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.
    The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former (...)

  • NEWS JUNKIE
    16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In NEWS JUNKIE, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history.
    Leopold broke key stories about the California energy crisis and Enron Corporation’s infamous phony trading floor as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswire. (...)

  • Fitzgerald Focuses on Missing White House Emails
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    More than two dozen emails sent to various senior Bush administration officials between May 2003 and early July 2003 related to covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are missing, and the special prosecutor investigating the case suspects that the communications may have been destroyed, according to high level sources close to the two-year old probe.
    The sources, who are knowledgeable about Special Prosecutor Patrick (...)

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by 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 document.
    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of (...)

  • Rediscovered testimony given by CIA director in 2001 suggests manipulation of pre-war intelligence
    6 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By 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 immediate threat to the United States or other countries in the Middle East.
    Details of Tenet’s testimony have not been reported before.
    Since a criminal indictment was handed up last month against Vice President (...)

  • Despite His Demeanor, Rove’s Still a Target
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by 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 2003, attorneys close to the case said.
    News reports in recent weeks have suggested that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has narrowed his criminal inquiry into whether Rove purposely failed to tell the grand jury (...)