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CIALeakProbe.appHeader = "Fact file|CIA leak mystery";
CIALeakProbe.appDeck = "The issue: Did a member of the Bush administration violate a federal statute by publicly disclosing the identity of an undercover CIA operative?
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Former U.S. ambassador, who wrote a New York Times Op-Ed column that concluded pre-Iraqi war intelligence was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Wife of Joseph Wilson who was identified as a CIA operative who monitored weapons of mass destruction.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Syndicated columnist who named Valerie Plame as a CIA operative on weapons of mass destruction. He said White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow were confirming sources for the story outing Plame, but refused to publicly identify the primary source.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Time magazine reporter who testified before a grand jury on his naming of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "White House Deputy Chief of Staff, who, in 2004 told CNN, “I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name,\" but whose attorney admitted Rove was one of Matthew Cooper’s sources in naming Joseph Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent, without actually using her name. Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said, on Monday, June 12, 2006, he was told by prosecutors that Rove would not be charged with any crimes in the investigation. On Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak named Rove as one of two sources who confirmed the CIA agent’s name, but refused to name his primary source.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "White House spokesman who said Karl Rove, and two other White House employees, assured him they were not involved in the identifying of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "New York Times reporter who gathered unpublished material about Valerie Plame and who was sent to jail for contempt of court after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the matter.
Miller left the New York Times in November of 2005.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Special counsel investigated the identifying of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "U.S. District Court chief judge who found Judith Miller in contempt of court for refusing to testify before the grand jury investigating the identifying of Valeria Plame.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Although the New York Times’ Judith Miller did not reveal Libby as her source of information regarding the CIA agent’s identity, after Miller’s release from jail, the New York Times did identify Libby as the source. Following his Oct. 28 indictment on five counts of obstruction of justice, false statements & perjury, Libby resigned from his White House position.
In his arraignment, Libby pleaded \"Not guilty\" on all charges. In a subsequent trial, a jury found Libby guilty of four counts of lying and obstructing the leak investigation. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine. President Bush commuted the prison time saying he respected the jury’s decision, but felt the sentence was excessive. However, the president left the conviction and fine in place. Libby paid the fine but is currently appealing his case and has not yet reported to prison.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor, who testified under oath that an unnamed official in the Bush administration told him Valarie Plame worked as a CIA analyst before Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby, Chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, told New York Times reporter Judith Miller.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Time Magazine correspondent who testified that, in early 2004, she alerted Robert Luskin, the attorney for White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, that her fellow Time correspondent, Matthew Cooper, had talked to Rove about Ambassador Joe Wilson’s 2002 trip to Niger. Novak’s tip told Luskin there might be evidence Rove may have forgotten a conversation with Cooper and that Luskin ought to search for evidence of such a conversation and amend Rove’s testimony to the special prosecutor.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "The No. 2 State Department official who met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified that an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "July 12, 2007
President Bush acknowledges publicly for the first time that someone in his administration leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for former White House aide I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby has \"run its course.\"
July 2, 2007
With prison time looming for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, President Bush sidesteps calls for a pardon and spares the former White House aide from a 2½-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation, saying he respects the jury verdict but the sentence was too harsh. The president, however, leaves intact Libby’s conviction and $250,000 fine. Libby’s appeal of his conviction is still pending.
June 5, 2007
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, saying I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby’s lies in the Valerie Plame affair outweighed his public service from the Cold War to the Iraq war, sentences Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff to 2½ years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
March 6, 2007
After ten days of deliberation, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby, is convicted of four counts of lying and obstructing a leak investigation. With the conviction Libby became the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s and brought new attention to the Bush administration's much-criticized handling of weapons of mass destruction intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The verdict culminated a nearly four-year investigation into how CIA official Valerie Plame's name was leaked to reporters in 2003. The trial revealed that top members of the administration were eager to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who accused the administration of doctoring prewar intelligence on Iraq.
Feb. 21, 2007
Jurors began deliberating the fate of I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby. After hearing instructions from the judge about legal issues and how to evaluate whether Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff lied to investigators to conceal his role in the leak of a CIA officer's identity, the 12 jurors chose a foreperson in a closed-door room. Presiding Judge Walton told the eight women and four men to focus on the specific charges and \"not to let the nature of the case\" affect their deliberations. The judge told jurors to keep in mind \"your commonsense experience\" that memory is not foolproof. He said people can innocently forget events when asked to describe them some time later. But Walton also stressed that the jurors should consider inconsistencies that the prosecution highlighted in Libby's version of events and whether they pertain \"to a matter of significant or trivial detail.\"
Feb. 12, 2007
Some of the nation's best-known print reporters testified about news leaks in the Bush administration as attorneys for I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby tried to cast the former White House aide as a scapegoat in the CIA case. Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus testified he learned about Plame, the wife of former ambassador and prominent war critic Joseph Wilson, from White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. The Post's Bob Woodward and syndicated columnist Robert Novak testified they heard it from Deputy State Department Secretary Richard Armitage. A one-minute excerpt of Woodward's taped interview with Armitage was played to jurors. In it, Woodward asks about a CIA fact-finding mission that Wilson says helped him debunk prewar intelligence on Iraq. \"Why would they send him?\" Woodward asked. \"Because his wife's a (expletive) analyst at the agency,\" Armitage replied. \"It's still weird,\" Woodward said. \"It's perfect. That's what she does. She is a WMD analyst,\" Armitage said.
Feb. 7, 2007
NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert testified he never discussed a CIA operative with vice presidential aide I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby, contradicting Libby's version to a grand jury in the CIA leak investigation.
Russert testified about a July 2003 phone call in which Libby complained about a colleague's coverage. Libby has said that, at the end of the call, Russert brought up war critic Joseph Wilson and mentioned that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
\"That would be impossible,\" Russert testified. \"I didn't know who that person was until several days later.\"
That discrepancy is at the heart of Libby's perjury and obstruction trial. During Libby's 2004 grand jury testimony, he said Russert told him \"all the reporters know\" that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Libby acknowledged later he had learned about Plame a month earlier from Vice President Cheney, but says he had forgotten about it and learned it again from Russert as if it were new.
Feb. 5, 2007
Jurors began listening to an estimated eight hours of audio recordings of I Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby's grand jury testimony. Three of the five perjury and obstruction of justice counts against Libby stem from his grand jury testimony.
Libby told a grand jury in 2004 that he largely \"could not recall\" several details of conversations he had with Vice President Dick Cheney and others regarding former ambassador Joseph Wilson, the war critic who accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq, according to audio tapes played in court this afternoon. Libby said he did remember his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney telling him in June 2003 that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. But Cheney said it in \"sort of an offhand manner, as a curiosity,\" Libby said. Presiding U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled that after the grand jury tapes are heard in his courtroom, they will be released to the media.
Jan. 30, 2007
In an unusual and sometimes dramatic exchange, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified Tuesday that former vice presidential aide I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby identified a CIA operative to her during each of her three conversations with him in June and July 2003.
She spent 85 days in jail for not revealing the confidential source of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity. But after Libby gave her a waiver, Miller testified before a grand jury.
But Miller's memory of the first meeting she had with Libby on June 23rd became an issue. Fitzgerald brought out that Miller did not mention the June 23 meeting in Libby's office during her first grand jury testimony -- after she finally decided Libby had freed her from a promise not to discuss their conversations.
Miller testified that at Fitzgerald's request she went back and found notes of the June 23 meeting and then described it in a later grand jury appearance.
Libby attorney William Jeffress came back at her again and again over her memory of the June 23 meeting and her memory in general.
Their exchanges occasionally became testy.
In his most telling foray, Jeffress asked how she could testify that Libby was agitated on June 23 when she couldn't even remember the meeting in her first grand jury testimony.
Miller mostly held firm. Acknowledging her memory \"is mostly note-driven,\" she insisted that rereading the notes \"bought back these memories\" of the June 23 meeting.
Jan. 29, 2007
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby told him about Valerie Plame's job at the CIA over a lunch on July 7, 2003.
Libby has told investigators he first learned about Plame on July 10 or 11 from NBC's Tim Russert.
Fleischer, testifying under an immunity agreement, insisted he believed the information was not classified.
Fleischer said he again heard about Plame four days later, from White House communications director Dan Bartlett, who was displeased reporters kept writing Cheney had sent Wilson to Niger. Fleischer recalled Bartlett saying, \"His wife sent him\" and \"She works at the CIA.\"
Fleischer said he relayed the Plame information in a casual conversation to John Dickerson of Time magazine and David Gregory of NBC News.
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller is expected to take the stand as a witness for the prosecution on Tuesday.
Jan. 16, 2007
Jury selection begins in the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. All the prospective jurors were asked 38 questions by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, in an effort to narrow the pool. Then, in the process known as voire dire, lawyers and the judge began posing questions to individual potential jurors. Nine were asked about their feelings toward the Bush administration and the media - six of those jurors were asked to return, three were dismissed from the case.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "July 11, 2006
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak said White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow were confirming sources for his story outing Plame, but refused to publicly identify his primary source.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff, who, in 2004 told CNN, “I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name,\" but whose attorney admited Rove was one of Matthew Cooper’s sources in naming Joseph Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent, without actually using her name. Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said, on Monday, June 12, 2006, he was told by prosecutors that Rove would not be charged with any crimes in the investigation. On Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak named Rove as one of two sources who confirmed the CIA agent’s name, but refused to name his primary source.
June 12, 2006
Karl Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, received a call from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald informing him that Rove, after testifying five times before the grand jury, won’t be charged with any crimes in the investigation into leak of CIA officer Valarie Plame's identity.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Dec. 9, 2005
Time Magazine correspondent Viveca Novak testified that, in early 2004, she alerted the attorney for White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's attorney that her fellow Time correspondent, Matthew Cooper, had talked to Rove about Ambassador Joe Wilson’s 2002 trip to Niger.
Nov. 14, 2005
Bob Woodward, Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor, testified under oath to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that an unnamed official in the Bush administration casually told him in the middle of June, 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive - making the unnamed official the first to disclose Plame's CIA employment to a reporter. It would also make Woodward the first reporter known to have learned about Plame from a government source.
Nov. 3, 2005
Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, appeared in court and pleaded \"not guilty\" to all five counts, including obstruction of justice, false statements & perjury charges.
Oct. 28, 2005
Grand Jury ends. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald presented his case to magistrate judge. Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby was the only one indicted, on five counts of obstruction of justice, false statements & perjury charges. Libby resigned from his White House position.
Oct. 26, 2005
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald met with grand jury as panel winds up two-year investigation.
Oct. 25, 2005
The New York Times reported that notes suggested Vice president Dick Cheney passed on Valarie Plame's identity to Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, in a previously undisclosed June 12, 2003, conversation.
Oct. 19, 2005
The Associated Press reported that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told grand jurors it was possible he first learned from Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, that Valarie Plame worked for the CIA.
Oct. 17, 2005
In a press conference, President Bush declined to say whether he would remove an aide under indictment.
Oct. 16, 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller wrote in the Times of her private conversations with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, about the tension between the White House and the CIA over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, including Libby’s reference of CIA operative Valerie Plame in three conversations – but not by name. She said Libby told her that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA's Weapons Intelligence, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control (WINPAC) unit.
Oct. 14, 2005
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove testified for over four hours, in his fourth appearance before the grand jury.
Oct. 12, 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller made her second appearance before the grand jury, one day after turning over notes of a previously undisclosed conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
Oct. 11, 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified again and turned over notes of a previously undisclosed phone conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
Oct. 6, 2005
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove agreed to testify again before the grand jury. Prosecutors said they cannot guarantee he will not be indicted.
Sep. 30, 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified before the grand jury following her release from jail for refusing to testify.
Sep. 29, 2005
New York Times’ Judith Miller was released from jail after her source “voluntarily and personally” released her from her promise of confidentiality and she agreed to testify before the grand jury. Her source was reported to be Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
July 18, 2005
President Bush told a news conference that he would fire anyone on his staff who has “committed a crime” in the CIA-leak case, a subtle shift from his comments in June, 2004, when he said he would fire anyone who leaked information about the identity of Valerie Plame.
July 17, 2005
Time’s Matthew Cooper published a story on what he told the grand jury investigating the identifying of Valeria Plame. In that story, Cooper wrote of a brief conversation he had with Karl Rove concerning Joseph Wilson’s trip to Niger and the Op-Ed Wilson wrote concluding pre-Iraqi war intelligence was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. In the article, Cooper reported, saying, \"It was, KR said, Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on WMD [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.\"
July 15, 2005
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove testified to the grand jury that he learned the identity of the CIA operative originally from journalists, then informally discussed the information, without using Valarie Plame's name, with Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper.
July 14, 2005
The Washington Post repored, a lawyer, “who has knowledge of the conversations between Rove and prosecutors” said Rove “indirectly” confirmed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative to syndicated columnist Robert Novak a week before Novak named her as a CIA operative. The Post added Rove said he first learned about her from a journalist whose name he did not recall and that he later learned Plame’s name from Novak, suggesting Rove could not have been Novak's original source and may have been a secondary source. Novak refused to comment on his sources or if he has cooperated with prosecutors.
July 10, 2005
Matthew Cooper’s e-mails, surrendered by Time magazine and reported in Newsweek, show one of Cooper’s sources was White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove. Cooper and Time refuse to confirm the information, but Rove’s attorney confirmed the reports. What Rove and Cooper discussed was not confirmed.
July 7, 2005
President Bush told reporters that if anyone in his administration committed a crime in connection with the leak, that person \"will no longer work in my administration.\"
July 6, 2005
Time’s Matthew Cooper and New York Times’ Judith Miller were scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan, facing jail time for contempt of court for refusing to testify. Prior to their appearance, Cooper announced his source has released him from their confidentiality agreement and he would testify. Miller was ordered jail where she would stay until the grand jury’s term expired in November of 2005. Miller did not publish a story mentioning Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. It was not known why she was refusing to testify or what she was refusing to testify about.
June 30, 2005
Time said it would hand over the notes of Matthew Cooper, who was threatened with jail for refusing to cooperate with the Fitzgerald investigation.";
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Since federal law prohibits anyone from disclosing the identity of an undercover U.S. operative, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald began submitting evidence to a grand jury impaneled to investigate the disclosure of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative. Some journalists, with the permission of their sources, spoke to the grand jury. Time’s Matthew Cooper and the New York Times’ Judith Miller refused to testify. It’s not known if syndicated columnist Robert Novak testified.";
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CIALeakProbe[i-1].body = "Oct. 10, 2003
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said he spoke with Rove and two other White House aides, all of whom assured him “they were not involved.”
July 17, 2003
Matthew Cooper’s Time magazine story, appearing three days after Robert Novak’s syndicated column, looked at whether the Bush administration had “declared war” on Joseph Wilson, mentioning some government officials had noted to Time, as well as syndicated columnist Robert Novak, “that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” adding, “These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched [to] Niger.”
July 14, 2003
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak published a column saying: the decision to send Joseph Wilson to Niger was made at a “low level” without then-CIA Director George Tenet's knowledge; the report was “less than definitive,” it was “doubtful” Tenet ever saw the report and certain President Bush did not, prior to his 2003 State of the Union address (when the president mentioned the report of Iraqi interest.) In that column Novak identified Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as an “agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.”
July 6, 2003
Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson wrote a New York Times editorial, based on a February 2002 fact-finding mission he took to probe possible Iraqi interest in African uranium. In the editorial he concluded some of the pre-war intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.";
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