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Cheney: Wilson Mission Was CIA 'Amateur Hour'

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT

Dick Cheney's memory may have been a little iffy about the Valerie Plame leak, but Politico reports that the former veep left no room for doubt about his opinion of her husband's trip to Niger to investigate an Iraqi purchase of plutonium. "It was amateur hour out at the CIA,...

Cheney on Plame Leak: I Can't Recall

Nick McMaster — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:02:07 CDT

After years of effort by the Bush and Obama administrations to keep documents related to the CIA leak case secret, redacted portions of the special prosecutor’s 2004 interview with Dick Cheney released today show plenty of nothing. The then-VP apparently suffered acute memory loss: Cheney told Patrick Fitzgerald he couldn't...

Evidence Tying Cheney to Plame Leak Grows

Harry Kimball — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:30:01 CDT

The Obama Justice Department is continuing its efforts to maintain the Bush administration's secrecy over Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal, the Washington Post reports. A filing this week, intended to bolster the current administration’s case for keeping secret details of the then-VP’s 2004 interview with...

Daily Show Argument Exposes Obama as Bush Lite

M. Morris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:51:25 CDT

A Justice Department lawyer argued in court yesterday—with a straight face—that releasing statements Dick Cheney made during the Valerie Plame investigation could cause future administration officials to hold back out of fear their statements would “get on The Daily Show .” The judge overseeing the hearing seemed skeptical, and...

Court Tosses Lawsuit Over CIA Leak

Dustin Lushing — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:13:27 CDT

A federal appeals court today threw out former CIA spy Valerie Plame's lawsuit against Dick Cheney and a group of former Bush White House officials for leaking her identity to the public. The court ruled that Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and former State Department official Richard Armitage were acting...

Dems' Prints All Over McClellan's 'Bitter Retort'

Jonas Oransky — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:51:25 CDT

Scott McClellan's treatment of the Valerie Plame leak case has a key player wondering who really guided the former press secretary’s pen. "His robotic performances from the White House podium seemed only to disgorge what he had been told, and What Happened has the similar feel of someone else's hand,...

Plame Tell-All Blasts the White House

Sam Gale Rosen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:40:00 CDT

Famously outed spy Valerie Plame hits back at the Bush administration in Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, the AP reports. The book blasts the administration's "arrogance and intolerance," and calls the smear campaign against her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a dress rehearsal...

Judge Tosses Ex-Spy's Suit Against Cheney

M. Morris — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:43:45 CDT

A judge today dismissed outed CIA operative Valerie Plame's civil suit against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, saying that the revelation of her identity "was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform." Furthermore, the judge ruled, Plame and her husband, ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson,...