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    • Waas: What Ashcroft Was Told

      Posted by Billbar from news.nationaljournal

      Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to oversee the Valerie Plame-CIA leak probe for more than two months in late 2003 after he learned in extensive briefings that FBI agents suspected White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of trying to mislead the FBI to conceal their roles in the leak.

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      Fitzgerald has evidence regarding Cheney

      Posted by Billbar from Rawstory

      The latest filing by Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in the CIA leak investigation indicates the prosecutor possesses "evidence" about communication between Vice President Dick Cheney and his former chief of staff who was indicted in connection with the ongoing investigation into the outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

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    • Waas: Rove-Novak Call Was Concern To Leak Investigators

      Posted by Billbar from news.nationaljournal

      ...three days after it became known that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate who leaked the name of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, columnist Robert Novak telephoned White House senior adviser Karl Rove to assure Rove that he would protect him from being harmed by the investigation, according to people with firsthand knowledge of the federal grand jury testimony of both men.

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    • Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then his chief of staff, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique.

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    • 2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak

      Posted by Billbar from New York Daily News

      Prosecutors say disgraced Cheney chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby learned CIA spy Valerie Plame's identity from, among others, agency officials who will be called to testify at his trial for perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice. Libby has said journalists told him about Plame - not Cheney or the six witnesses named so far by prosecutors.

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      Lawyer disputes claim Powell aide focus of CIA leak probe

      Posted by Billbar from Rawstory

      A claim by former National Security director Bobby Ray Inman that senior Powell aide Richard Armitage was a target in the investigation into the outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson drew a firestorm of response from individuals close to the case, RAW STORY can report.

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    Billbar comments on:

    A Libby Pardon for Christmas?

    More here.

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    7:10 am 10/13/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Armitage admits being CIA leaker

    Well, what with Michael Isikoff's new book (http://www.newscloud.com/read/73105/) and all, he had to 'fess up.

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    8:52 pm 8/30/06
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Jason Leopold: Robert Novak and the Perfect Stranger

    Novak lies? No way. He's a saint I tell ya

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    5:29 pm 8/30/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Jason Leopold: Robert Novak and the Perfect Stranger

    If this is true, it's an important piece of the puzzle. -- And that Novak has been lying.

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    6:50 am 8/30/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Plame sues Cheney, Rove, Libby

    Joseph Wilson made it clear a while ago that they would be doing this. I'm glad to see it happen, though.

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    2:11 pm 7/13/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    My Leak Case Testimony

    Ain't he such a hero?

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    4:25 pm 7/11/06
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Waas: Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic

    Thi is very interesting. I wish CT wouldn't let more than one article about the same thing....or even the same article exactly...be published twice. you were first on this , from what I can tell. But CT allowed me to post it again

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    1:21 pm 7/04/06
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