http://valerie.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Valerie en Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045928 unknown@Netscape.com The federal judge who oversaw 'Scooter' Libby's CIA leak trial said Thursday that he received threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing the former White House aide to prison. 'I received a number of angry, harassing mean-spirited phone calls and letters,' U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045928ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneythreatsagainstjudgeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032034 unknown@Netscape.com Bush has pardoned 113 people during his presidency, including a Tennessee bootlegger and a Mississippi odometer cheat. But none has drawn the public scrutiny, nor posed the same political challenge, as the candidate that many conservatives hope will be pardon No. 114: I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to VP Dick Cheney. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:34:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032034ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneypardonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2028158 unknown@Netscape.com Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:01:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2028158ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2029810 unknown@Netscape.com Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:01:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029810ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2016438 unknown@Netscape.com An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003. Wed, 30 May 2007 00:58:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2016438ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1965191 unknown@Netscape.com The lawyers said any conversations Cheney and the officials had about Plame with one another or with reporters were part of their normal duties because they were discussing foreign policy and engaging in an appropriate "policy dispute. Sun, 20 May 2007 02:19:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1965191ScooterlibbychenyRoveValeriePlamejosephWilsonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1155205 unknown@Netscape.com Conservative pundits seem miffed that Valerie Plame, her cover blown, decided to pose for Vanity Fair or get a book deal or sell her story to Hollywood. Well, what do they expect? She lost her job, her career. She can't become a covert agent for Canada. Or Mexico. And just because she's bounced back doesn't mean she wasn't victimized. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:04:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1155205ScooterlibbyValeriePlamecialeaktrialDickcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1133290 unknown@Netscape.com In the new March 22 column, Novak can't seem to let go of a favorite right-wing myth - that Plame wasn't a "covert" CIA officer overseeing a sensitive network of spies informing the United States about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:37:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1133290ValeriePlameciaRoveScooterlibbycheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1133903 unknown@Netscape.com Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R) could hardly believe what he heard last Friday on television as he watched a House Committee hearing. Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic committee chairman, said his statement had been approved by the CIA director. That included the assertion that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative when her identity was revealed. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:51:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1133903ValeriePlameNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1044508 unknown@Netscape.com Valerie Plame broke cover this week to give her side of a story that has engulfed the White House in scandal and led to the conviction of the Vice President's chief of staff for perjury. Here her husband, Joe Wilson, whose opposition to the Iraq war is thought to have provoked her 'outing,' talks to Andrew Buncombe about their ordeal Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:31:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1044508JoeWilsonValeriePlameNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1032596 unknown@Netscape.com Valerie Plame, the former CIA officer at the heart of a four-year political furor over the Bush administration's leak of her identity, lashed out at the White House yesterday, testifying in Congress that the president's aides destroyed a career she loved and slipped her name to reporters for "purely political motives." Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:27:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1032596ValeriePlameciaRoveScooterlibbycheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1030492 unknown@Netscape.com Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, revealed today that to his knowledge the White House has never ordered a probe, report, or sanctions as a result of the outing of a covert CIA operative. "I have no knowledge of any investigation in my office," he said. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:02:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1030492ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyinvestigationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1028422 unknown@Netscape.com Former CIA officer Valerie Plame testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday, March 16, 2007. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:19:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1028422ValeriePlamecialeakNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1017689 unknown@Netscape.com Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA officer whose "outing" led to the conviction of a former White House aide, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Friday morning. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:18:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1017689ValeriePlameTestifieshousecommitteeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1017385 unknown@Netscape.com Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose outing triggered a federal investigation, appeared before a congressional committee Friday and said administration officials "should have been diligent" in protecting her identity. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:45:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1017385congressleakciaValeriePlametestimonyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/973303 unknown@Netscape.com As Atrios first noted, a new CNN poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly believe that President Bush should not pardon Scooter Libby, who was convicted last week on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:03:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/973303ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneypardonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/912650 unknown@Netscape.com Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed after her husband criticized President Bush's march to war, will testify next week before lawmakers probing how the White House dealt with her identity, the chairman of the panel said Thursday. Also invited to testify March 16 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is Patrick Fitzgerald, Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:21:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/912650ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneycongressNews http://web2announcer.com/go/885737 unknown@Netscape.com In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment. With Tuesday's verdict on Mr. Libby - guilty on four of five counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice - Mr. Cheney's critics, and even some of his supporters, said the vice president had been diminished. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:05:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/885737ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/885127 unknown@Netscape.com The jurors who convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby believed Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff was set up as a fall guy, a juror said Tuesday, but they had no alternative to finding him guilty in the leak of the identity of a classified CIA operative. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:19:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/885127ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/885739 unknown@Netscape.com President George W. Bush has the constitutional power to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but will he do it? Democrats were immediately suspicious that he will, the White House was careful not to rule it out, and Intrade, an online prediction exchange on issues from politics to weather, opened a futures market on whether it would happen. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:11:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/885739ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneypardonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/872794 unknown@Netscape.com "This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush Administration. The testimony unmistakably revealed - at the highest levels of the Bush Administration - a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq." [via tpm] Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:30:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/872794libbyValeriePlamePatrickFitzgeraldguiltycheneyperjurypelosiNews http://web2announcer.com/go/830870 unknown@Netscape.com It's juicy stuff -- and now that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is on trial defending accusations that he lied to FBI agents investigating the leak -- Warner Bros. has decided to snag the life rights of Plame and Wilson for -- you guessed it -- a delicious Hollywood movie. Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:37:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/830870ValeriePlameNews http://web2announcer.com/go/683258 unknown@Netscape.com After five weeks and 19 witnesses into the CIA leak trial, jurors have begun deciding the fate of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Jurors heard a full day of closing arguments in Libby's perjury and obstruction trial Tuesday. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:54:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/683258ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/540457 unknown@Netscape.com On Monday, lawyers for the vice president's former chief of staff will start presenting their defense. But they will have to make some quick decisions. One of their potential star witnesses-Dick Cheney-is due to leave the country for a 10-day trip to Asia on Feb. 19. So conveniently or not, the vice president's loyalty to his former top aide may Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:20:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/540457ScooterlibbyValeriePlamecialeaktrialDickcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/291508 unknown@Netscape.com Opening statements are heard in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame Wilson leak investigation. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:20:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/291508cialeakcaseScooterlibbyValeriePlameWilsoniraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/171409 unknown@Netscape.com When Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff goes on trial Tuesday on charges of lying about the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity, members of Washington's government and media elite will be answering some embarrassing questions as well. Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:31:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/171409ScooterlibbyDickcheneyValeriePlameleakNews