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  • Bush orders Fitzgerald fired and espionage indictments quashed
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush-Cheney CIA/Plame case indictments released this morning
    Bush orders Fitzgerald fired and espionage indictments quashed
    by Tom Flocco
    Washington, DC-October 21, 2005-12:00 EST-TomFlocco.com exclusive-Today Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald handed over 22 indictments to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, accusing President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and others of espionage, obstruction of justice, perjury and a variety of other charges in the matter of the (…)

  • Fitzgerald must Broaden Investigation: Did Bush Admin deliberately mislead Congress about the war?
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, D.C. - In light of recent developments in the CIA leak investigation and other recent revelations, Congressman Jerrold Nadler today called for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to expand his investigation to include a criminal investigation to examine whether the President, the Vice President, and members of the White House Iraq Group conspired to deliberately deceive Congress into authorizing the war in Iraq.
    “The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg,” Congressman (…)

  • Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
    Hinderaker’s Folly
    Special to Crooks and Liars by Larry Johnson If ignorance is bliss, then John Hinderaker is one happy fellow when it comes to talking about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. According to Hinderaker, who was appearing on Howard Kurtz’s CNN show about the media, he trots out once again the big lie of Republican talking points by claiming that Joe Wilson lied in his July 2003 op-ed. Hinderaker says that Wilson, "reported to the CIA (…)

  • Hardball’s pattern of misinformation and imbalance on CIA leak case
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hardball’s pattern of misinformation and imbalance on CIA leak case
    In recent months on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, coverage of the investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame has offered a clear pattern of misinformation by host Chris Matthews and his guests. Further, on numerous occasions, Hardball’s panels of guests who discussed the issue have skewed right — solely composed of Republicans, prominent conservatives, and journalists or political figures with no (…)

  • Editor Says He Missed Miller ’Alarm Bells’
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JOHN SOLOMON
    WASHINGTON - The New York Times’ Judith Miller belatedly gave prosecutors her notes of a key meeting in the CIA leak probe only after being shown White House records of it, and her boss declared Friday she appeared to have misled the newspaper about her role.
    In a dramatic e-mail, Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote Times’ employees he wished he’d more carefully interviewed Miller and had "missed what should have been significant alarm bells" that she had been the (…)

  • Bush whacked Rove on CIA leak
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK
    WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.
    "He made his displeasure known to Karl," a presidential counselor told The News. "He made his life miserable about this."
    Bush has nevertheless remained doggedly loyal to Rove, who friends and even political adversaries acknowledge is the architect of the President’s rise from baseball owner to leader of (…)

  • Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper’s Editors Regarding Leak
    By Howard Kurtz
    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.
    Alex Jones, a former Times reporter who heads the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public (…)

  • It’s Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FRANK RICH
    There hasn’t been anything like it since Martha Stewart fended off questions about her stock-trading scandal by manically chopping cabbage on "The Early Show" on CBS. Last week the setting was "Today" on NBC, where the image of President Bush manically hammering nails at a Habitat for Humanity construction site on the Gulf Coast was juggled with the sight of him trying to duck Matt Lauer’s questions about Karl Rove.
    As with Ms. Stewart, Mr. Bush’s paroxysm of panic was (…)

  • The CIA-leak case: From a notepad to jail and back
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    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." ADVERTISEMENT
    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 Plame, an undercover CIA operative, (…)

  • If George and Dick come out of this unscathed, Mr. Fitzgerald may as well have stayed in Chicago.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
    - Richard M. Nixon
    In a New York Times article published on Sunday, columnist Frank Rich buried the dart right in the center-black. "What matters most in this case," wrote Rich, "is not whether Mr. Rove and Lewis Libby engaged in a petty conspiracy to seek revenge on a whistle-blower, Joseph Wilson, by unmasking his wife, Valerie, a covert C.I.A. officer. What makes Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is (…)