Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak
By Laurie Kellman / Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. A House committee chairman, meanwhile, held off on a contempt ...
Plame case documents subpoenaed
House Judiciary also asks for documents relating to other big cases. By Katie Fretland / Chicago Tribune The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over documents relating to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity -- the case that led to the conviction of ...
Waxman targets Cheney role in CIA leak
By Pete Yost / Associated Press WASHINGTON — A House committee chairman said Tuesday he is seeking more documents from the CIA leak probe because of significant disclosures to the FBI by Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff and new details about Cheney's role in the scandal in ...
Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush commuted Monday the prison term of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, facing 30 months in prison after a federal court convicted him of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. A commutation is distinct from a pardon, which is a complete ...
Prosecutor says lies shielded Cheney
By R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post WASHINGTON — In late March 2004, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald asked I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby three separate times whether his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, had discussed telling reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA in an undercover role. Fitzgerald was unconvinced ...
Libby found guilty in CIA leak trial
By Michael J. Sniffen and Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration. He is the highest-ranking White House ...
Rove, White House Spokesman Get Subpoenas
White House Bigwigs Called to Testify in Defense of Former Vice Presidential Aide 'Scooter' Libby By John Hendren / ABC News Jan. 27, 2007 — Presidential advisor Karl Rove and White House communications director Dan Bartlett have received subpoenas to testify for the defense at the trial of former vice ...
At the Libby Trial, Hints of Intrigue and Betrayal
By David Johnston and Jim Rutenberg / New York Times WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — The assertion by lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. that White House aides had sacrificed him to protect Karl Rove, the senior political adviser, appears to be based primarily on Mr. Libby’s own sense that the ...
Pombo's struggle to keep seat a reflection of national trend
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen / Contra Costa Times It's Election Day, and candidates in California's three fiercely fought congressional campaigns can do little except scramble for last-minute votes and wait to see if the widely predicted Democratic wave washes over the West Coast. The GOP hasn't conceded ground, but national political ...
Novak accuses primary source of distortion in CIA leak
Richard Armitage maintains the leak was an offhand remark. Novak calls that a misrepresentation. R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post WASHINGTON - Columnist Robert Novak, who first revealed Valerie Plame's employment by the CIA and touched off a lengthy federal leak investigation, is accusing his primary source of misrepresenting their ...
Plame lawyer plans to force Cheney, Rove testimony
By Gina Keating / Reuters LOS ANGELES, Aug 15 - A lawyer plans to use a legal precedent that allowed President Bill Clinton to be sued while in office to force Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove to testify in a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative ...
Former CIA officer sues Cheney over leak
By Toni Locy / Associated Press WASHINGTON - The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed ...
Novak: Rove was a source in outing Plame
By Pete Yost / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Columnist Robert Novak said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. In a column, Novak also says his recollection of his conversation ...
Rove garners hisses, laughter - and applause
By Joel Stonington / Vail Daily ASPEN - The clearest example of the breadth of political discourse in last week's Aspen Ideas Fest comes with two of the week-long event's featured speakers: former President Clinton and Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff. Clinton enjoyed a warm reception Friday ...
Rove won't be charged in CIA leak case
By John Solomon / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Top White House aide Karl Rove has been told by prosecutors he won't be charged with any crimes in the investigation into the leak of a CIA officer's identity, his lawyer said Tuesday, lifting a heavy burden from one of President Bush's ...
Steele signaling his independence
By Jennifer Skalka / Baltimore Sun It was billed as Senate candidate Michael S. Steele's announcement of his "agenda for education achievement." But the sparsely attended event in the parking lot of Prince George's Community College this month was more notable for Steele's bashing of President Bush's sweeping No Child ...
National Journal: Novak Assured Rove He Would Protect Him
Editor & Publisher NEW YORK - Murray Waas, who has broken so many key stories in the Plame/CIA leak case for the National Journal, has been rather quiet this month, but emerged today with another bombshell. On September 29, 2003, three days after it became known that the CIA had ...
Cheney May Be Called in CIA Leak Case
By Toni Locy / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Could Vice President Dick Cheney be a star prosecution witness in the perjury trial of his former chief of staff?Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested in a court filing Wednesday that Cheney would be a logical witness for the prosecution because the vice ...
Rove Said Unfazed by Chance of Charges
By Deb Riechmann / Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, arrives at the White House every day wearing a jovial smile that masks his boss' political troubles and his own legal woes. Rove, the man Bush dubbed "the architect" of his re-election, has the arduous ...
Hand-written notes by the Vice President surface in the Fitzgerald Probe By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek May 13, 2006 - The role of Vice President Dick Cheney in the criminal case stemming from the outing of White House critic Joseph Wilson's CIA wife is likely to get fresh attention as ...
RNC Chairman Warns of Possible GOP Catastrophe
By Robert Novak / Human Events Online RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman met with Republican members of Congress this week to impress upon them just how bad the opinion polls are looking for them, and warning that they face a possible catastrophe in November. This warning contributed to GOP determination to ...
Rove Testifies 5th Time On Leak
Bush Aide Is Said To Be Unsure if He Will Be Indicted By Jim VandeHei / Washington Post White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove sought to convince a federal grand jury yesterday that he did not provide false statements in the CIA leak case, testifying for more than ...
By James Vicini and Andy Sullivan / Reuters WASHINGTON - Karl Rove appeared on Wednesday before a U.S. grand jury probing the leak of a CIA officer's identity but his lawyer said there was still no sign the top presidential adviser will face charges in the case. Rove remains under ...
Rove to Appear Before Grandy Jury to Discuss Leak Testimony
By William Branigin and Jim VandeHei / Washington Post Top presidential adviser Karl Rove has been called to testify this afternoon before a federal grand jury investigating the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity, a source close to Rove said.Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist, will be asked about ...
Media Lawyers Hit Back at Libby's 'Fishing Expedition'
Associated Press WASHINGTON Lawyers for NBC News, The New York Times and Time Inc. accused a former White House aide Tuesday of threatening the integrity of their news gathering operations by seeking access to a wide range of documents in the CIA leak case. The media lawyers, in separate filings, ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
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