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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - Background on the Plame Investigation]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/special/7/index.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7]]></link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>30</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?nav=rss</link><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif </url></image><item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Commutes Libby Sentence, but Conviction Stands ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070300981.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070300981.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:58:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday, sparing Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff 2 1/2  years in prison after a federal appeals court had refused to let Libby remain free while he appeals his conviction for lying to federal investigators. ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ A Decision Made Largely Alone ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070202060.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070202060.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush limited his deliberations over commuting the prison  term of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to a few close aides, opting not to consult with the Justice Department and rebuffing efforts by  friends to lobby on Libby's behalf, administration officials and people close to Bush said yesterday. ]]></description><author>Michael Abramowitz</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'The Prison  Sentence . . .  Is Excessive' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070201463.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070201463.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's statement on his commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, from the Associated Press: ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Commutes Libby's Prison Sentence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070200825.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070200825.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday, sparing Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff 2 1/2  years in prison after a federal appeals court had refused to let Libby remain free while he appeals his conviction for lying to federal investigators.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312031903" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312031903" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Commutes Libby Prison Sentence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070200927.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070200927.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:44:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh. ]]></description><author>BEN FELLER</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Loses Bid to Stay Out of Jail For Appeal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400199.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400199.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge ordered Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff to surrender in six to eight weeks to begin serving his 30-month prison term, increasing the pressure for President Bush to decide soon whether he will pardon the only administration official prosecuted in a White House leak in... ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Loses Bid to Stay Out of Jail For Appeal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400198.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400198.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge ordered Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff to surrender  in six to eight weeks to begin serving his 30-month prison term, increasing the pressure for  President Bush to decide soon whether he will pardon the only administration official prosecuted in a White House leak... ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ In the West Wing, Pardon Is A Topic Too Sensitive to Mention ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060501275.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060501275.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The sentence imposed on former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday put President Bush in the position of making a decision he has tried to avoid for months: Trigger a fresh political storm by pardoning a convicted perjurer or let one of the early architects of his administration head...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312032278" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312032278" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Given 21/2-Year Prison Term ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060500150.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060500150.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for lying to federal investigators about his role in the leak of a CIA officer's identity by a judge who declared the evidence against him "overwhelming" and concluded that Lib... ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Jurist's Career Built on Toughness ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060401601.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060401601.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ While presiding over perhaps the most high-profile trial of his career, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton made time for his more mundane courthouse role: the scolding mentor to this city's young thugs. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby's Lawyers Argue Against Prison as Fitzgerald Seeks 30 Months ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053102209.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053102209.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Defense lawyers argued yesterday that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff should serve no time in prison for lying about the leak of a covert agent's identity, on the grounds that he is a selfless, apolitical public servant with an otherwise "exemplary" record. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Special Prosecutor Seeks 30 to 37 Months in Prison for Libby ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052501866.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052501866.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former top Bush administration aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should spend 30 to 37 months in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald contended in court documents filed yesterday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312032487" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312032487" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Judge Told Leak Was Part of 'Policy Dispute' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701400.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701400.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Attorneys for Vice President Cheney and top White House officials told a federal judge yesterday that they cannot be held liable for anything they disclosed to reporters about covert CIA officer Valerie Plame or her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Plame Says Administration 'Recklessly' Revealed Her ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600276.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600276.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ 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... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Valerie Plame, the Spy Who's Ready to Speak for Herself ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031502448.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031502448.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ She has been silent nearly four years. Today, the CIA officer whose unmasking fueled a political uproar and criminal probe that reached into the White House is poised to finally tell her own story -- before Congress. ]]></description><author>Richard Leiby and Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Trial Offered Glimpses of Way White House Worked ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702424.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702424.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When he took the stand as the fifth prosecution witness in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified that the vice president's then-chief of staff "was not somebody who would typically provide information to me."<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312032778" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312032778" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Prison May Be Long Way Off for Libby ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702425.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702425.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's attorneys began mapping his appeals yesterday, legal experts predicted that Vice President Cheney's former top aide has an excellent chance of avoiding prison time for his perjury convictions until late 2008, perhaps until after the presidential election. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and  Michael D. Shear</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Deflects Pressure To Give Libby a Pardon ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030700184.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030700184.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush said yesterday that he is "pretty much going to stay out of" the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby until the legal process has run its course, deflecting pressure from supporters of the former White House aide to pardon him for perjury and obstruction of justice. ]]></description><author>Peter Baker and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ And Never, Ever Lie to Your Mother ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602374.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602374.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Who can you lie to anymore? Let's run through the list: You . . . . . . Can't lie to a grand jury or the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scooter Libby found that out the hard way yesterday when he was declared guilty of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI in the government's investigation of a leak that revealed a CIA operative's identity. ... ]]></description><author>Linton Weeks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Trying Times for Wilsons, Too ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602343.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602343.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Joe Wilson was at the Bombay Club, two blocks from the White House, waiting to have lunch shortly after noon yesterday with a friend and former National Security Council staffer, when his BlackBerry rang.  It was his wife. She skipped right over "Hello."<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312033133" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312033133" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>David Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ A Case of Bad Ink: Portrait of Media Is Not So Flattering ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602349.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602349.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The parade  of high-profile Washington journalists who took the stand in the Lewis "Scooter" Libby perjury case were not on trial. But few would dispute that the proceedings, which ended with Libby's conviction on four of five counts yesterday, gave their profession a black eye. ]]></description><author>Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby 'Pilloried' For Leak, Panel Members Believed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602365.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602365.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The jurors who huddled around two pushed-together conference tables for 10 days, meticulously filling 34 pages of facts from the trial on a large flip chart, believed that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff had been "pilloried" for a CIA leak that other top White House aides had committed along with him, according to one member of the panel.... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein and Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Cheney's Suspected Role in Security Breach Drove Fitzgerald ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601969.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601969.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a small room on the third floor of the D.C. federal courthouse in late March 2004, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald stood before I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and asked him three separate times whether his boss, Vice President Cheney, had discussed telling reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.... ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030600648.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030600648.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal jury convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday of lying about his role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity, culminating a four-year legal saga that transfixed official Washington and revealed the inner workings of the White House and the media.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312033812" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312033812" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Verdict Brings Moment Of Accountability ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602589.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602589.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Shortly before he was inaugurated for his second term, President Bush was asked why no one was held responsible for the mistakes of the first. "We had an accountability moment," he replied, "and that's called the 2004 elections." ]]></description><author>Peter Baker</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Juror Addresses Media ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601489.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601489.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:35 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Verdict Deals Blow to Bush Administration ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030600836.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030600836.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:28:02 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The conviction of former White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby today dealt another blow to President Bush's beleaguered administration and marked the latest chapter in a record of mistakes, missteps and setbacks growing out of an Iraq war policy that went badly awry. ]]></description><author>Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Jurors Consider Cooper Conversation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030501374.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030501374.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jurors in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby indicated yesterday they remain focused on whether Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff lied to the FBI about a  July 12, 2003, conversation with Matthew Cooper,  then a reporter for Time magazine.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312034744" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312034744" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Jury Seeks Clarity On 'Reasonable Doubt' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030200406.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030200406.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jurors in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby asked the presiding judge for help yesterday defining a core issue in their deliberations: how to set a standard for determining whether the vice president's former chief of staff is guilty beyond a "reasonable doubt." ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Jurors in Libby Case Allowed to Leave Deliberations Early ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030101289.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030101289.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jurors considering perjury charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby signaled yesterday that they were still working to reach a verdict after seven days of deliberations and did not expect to arrive at one  this week, according to a note they sent to the presiding trial judge. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Judge Grants Jury Early Leave ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030100538.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030100538.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:15:11 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Jurors in the perjury trial of ex-White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby have much work to do and expect to deliberate into next week. ]]></description><author>MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Jury Hits Short-Term Snag on Sixth Day ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/28/AR2007022800321.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/28/AR2007022800321.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A week into deliberations in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, jurors yesterday provided the first glimpse of the issues they are weighing by signaling confusion over how to interpret one of the five felony counts against the vice president's former top aide.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312035285" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312035285" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Juror Is Dismissed From Libby Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600405.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600405.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The jury considering whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is guilty of perjury lost one of its members after nearly three days of deliberation yesterday, but the presiding judge ordered the panel to continue working to reach a decision. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ A Nonpartisan Reputation at Stake ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201935.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201935.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the jury in I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury trial returns with its verdict, its decision also will intensify the debate over whether Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald should have brought the case in the first place. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby's Fate Now Rests In the Hands Of the Jury ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100963.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100963.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal jury  ended its first day of deliberations yesterday in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after the presiding judge urged jurors to rely on their "life experiences" in deciding whether the vice president's former chief of staff lied to investigators -- or made an honest mistake... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby 'Told a Dumb Lie,' Prosecutor Says in Closing Argument ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022000122.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022000122.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff lied to investigators about his role in leaking a CIA officer's identity in order to keep his job and protect the White House from political embarrassment, prosecutors told jurors yesterday in the closing arguments of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312035554" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312035554" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Ted Wells, Center Of the Defense ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022001858.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022001858.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For  most of the month-long trial, Ted Wells, Scooter Libby's high-priced attorney, had been all smiles. He laughed. He shared light moments with the judge, the jury and with his opponent, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. At one point Wells and Fitzgerald were so palsy-walsy, Judge Reggie B. Walton chastised them.... ]]></description><author>Linton Weeks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Defense Attorneys Rest Libby's Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021400836.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021400836.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby rested their defense in his perjury trial yesterday after giving jurors a stripped-down version of their case that the vice president's then-chief of staff was too preoccupied with sensitive national security issues in 2003 to remember conversations he had... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Defense to Rest Without Testimony by Him or Cheney ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021300122.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021300122.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said yesterday that he and Vice President Cheney, his former boss, will not testify in Libby's perjury trial, leaving the defense preparing to rest its case today after barely more than two days of testimony. ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Journalists Testify That Libby Never Mentioned CIA Officer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021200588.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021200588.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Six journalists testified yesterday that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, never mentioned an undercover CIA officer to them -- and some said they learned about her identity from other administration sources.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312036004" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312036004" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Media Figures May Be Reluctant Defense Witnesses in Libby Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101281.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101281.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Defense Exhibit 1972, a tape-recorded interview from the "Imus in the Morning" radio show, is another of those revealing moments in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Prosecution Rests Case In Libby's Perjury Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020800865.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020800865.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prosecutors rested their case yesterday in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, completing a methodical portrait of a top-tier presidential aide who they say diligently scrambled to defend the White House against an early critic of the Iraq war and then lied to investigators about what he... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Russert Says He Didn't Tell Libby About CIA Officer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020701040.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020701040.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tim Russert, the Washington bureau chief for NBC News, yesterday swiftly and firmly rejected I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's assertion that the journalist revealed the identity of an undercover CIA officer to him during a telephone call in the summer of 2003. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Tim Russert, on The Uncomfortable Side of a Question ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020702437.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020702437.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From  the moment he hobbled into the wood-paneled courtroom on a single crutch  from an ankle injury, Tim Russert seemed very different from the familiar television figure of Sunday morning combat.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312036509" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312036509" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Court Hears Libby Describe Cheney as 'Upset' at Critic ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020500831.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020500831.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney and other senior White House officials regarded a former ambassador's accusations that President Bush misled the nation in going to war in Iraq as an unparalleled political assault and, early in the summer of 2003, held daily discussions about how to debunk them, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a federal grand jury.... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Jurors Listen to Libby's Grand Jury Tapes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020500119.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020500119.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury in 2004 that Vice President Cheney did not encourage him to provide information about an undercover CIA officer to the media, but Libby also said he did not believe that the information was secret and had to be safeguarded, according to audiotapes of Libby's testimony played in court yesterday.... ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Vice President's Shadow Hangs Over Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/03/AR2007020301344.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/03/AR2007020301344.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney's press officer, Cathie Martin, approached his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Air Force Two on July 12, 2003, to ask how she should respond to journalists' questions about Joseph C. Wilson IV. Libby looked over one of the reporters' questions and told Martin:... ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Prosecutors Hope to Show Marked News Articles ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/03/AR2007020301336.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/03/AR2007020301336.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The day of his interview with the FBI, Vice President Cheney's then-top aide hand-marked copies of two Washington Post articles about the breadth of a criminal leak investigation -- and underlined were passages suggesting that any official who had told reporters about a CIA officer could be in legal...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312036787" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312036787" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Left Out Some Facts  In Interviews, FBI Agent Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020100913.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020100913.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the FBI agents who interviewed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby during the CIA leak investigation testified yesterday that the vice president's then-chief of staff did not acknowledge disclosing the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to reporters, asserting that he was surprised when... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Jurors' Queries Yield Insights   --  And Laughs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101940.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101940.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller was on the witness stand yesterday and a juror wanted to know why she had decided to go to jail for 85 days before agreeing to testify about her conversations with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Time Reporter Testifies in Libby Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100900.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100900.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former Time magazine reporter said in court yesterday that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby confided that the wife of an Iraq war critic worked at the CIA, becoming the second journalist to testify that the vice president's then-chief of staff disclosed the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Reporter's Account Hurts Libby Defense ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013000178.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013000178.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller yesterday helped the prosecutor who landed her in jail and forced her into the witness chair, providing potentially damaging information about the confidential administration source she tried to shield, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312037093" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312037093" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Former Press Secretary Says Libby Told Him of Plame ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012900504.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012900504.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified yesterday that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby divulged Valerie Plame's identity to him in July 2003, three days earlier than Libby has told investigators he first learned of the undercover CIA officer. ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Fleischer Handles Questioning in the Usual Fashion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901788.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901788.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's been almost four years since Ari Fleischer stepped down from the podium, but he has lost nothing off the old curveball. ]]></description><author>Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-CIA Official Testifies About Libby's Calls ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012400944.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012400944.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former high-ranking CIA official testified yesterday that, when Vice President Cheney's agitated chief of staff called him out of the blue in June 2003 to ask what he knew about a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, he jumped to get answers. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Defense Portrays Libby as Scapegoat ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012300125.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012300125.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was "put through the meat grinder" by the White House shortly after the Iraq war began, scapegoated to conceal the fact that Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, helped disclose an undercover CIA officer's identity, a defense attorney contended yesterday as...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312037467" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312037467" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein  and Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Jury Is Chosen; Arguments Set to Start ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012200504.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012200504.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge empaneled a jury yesterday in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, seating a largely apolitical, educated group of D.C. residents to decide whether Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff lied to investigators about his role in divulging the identity of a covert CIA... ]]></description><author>Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ In Libby Trial, Big Names Make Jury Picks a Tall Order ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR2007011701270.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR2007011701270.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ To see how small a town Washington really is, drop in on jury selection at the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, where so far nearly every juror candidate seems to have a connection to the players or events surrounding the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig  and Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Jurors Questioned About War, Memory as Libby Trial Opens ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600145.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600145.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff opened yesterday with defense lawyers carefully scrutinizing potential jurors for strong opinions about the Bush administration, the war in Iraq and the fallibility of human memory. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Potential Witnesses and Names that may be Mentioned during the Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600933.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600933.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:14:20 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ * Floyd Abrams (Partner at the law firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindell)<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312037930" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312037930" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Key Players in the CIA Leak Investigation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102800982.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102800982.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Oct. 28, 2005, a grand jury handed down a five-count indictment in the 22-month-long investigation into whether White House officials illegally leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA agent, in retaliation for public criticisms made by her husband, Joseph Wilson IV, about the Iraq war. ]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ At Libby Trial, Power Players Face Uncomfortable Spotlight ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR2007011401139.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR2007011401139.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Cheney Willing to Testify at Libby Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121900753.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121900753.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney is willing to testify in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial of his former chief of staff that is scheduled to begin next month, according to defense lawyers and sources familiar with his plans. ]]></description><author>Carol D. Leonnig</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Judge Excludes Memory Expert From Libby Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201541.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201541.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will not be allowed to use a memory expert at his perjury and obstruction trial, a federal judge ruled yesterday, blocking a key tactic in Libby's defense strategy.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312038476" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312038476" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Post</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Plans to Testify at His CIA Leak Trial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092202048.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092202048.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff plans to take the stand at his upcoming trial to tell jurors he never lied to investigators in the CIA leak case, defense attorneys said yesterday. ]]></description><author>Post</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Cheney Aide Handed Initial Victory ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801410.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801410.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:12:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- A ruling by a federal judge Thursday could make it easier for Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff to use classified documents in his trial in the CIA leak case. ]]></description><author>MATT APUZZO</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Novak Accuses Plame Source Of Distortion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091302066.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091302066.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Columnist Robert D. 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 conversation to make the source's role in the disclosure seem more casual than it was. ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Armitage Says He Was  Source of CIA Leak ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701781.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701781.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said yesterday that he believes he was the initial source for a 2003 newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that disclosed the CIA's previously secret employment of Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the U.S. war in Iraq.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312038650" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312038650" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Colleague Says Armitage Was Source of CIA Leak ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801278.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801278.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The leak of information about an undercover CIA employee that provoked a special prosecutor's investigation of senior White House officials came from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, according to a former Armitage colleague at the department. ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Couple Reiterate Claims They Were Punished ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071400548.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071400548.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, former CIA officer Valerie Plame, said yesterday that Vice President Cheney, presidential  adviser Karl Rove and other administration officials knowingly lied and abused their power to get revenge against the couple for criticizing President... ]]></description><author>Daniela Deane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Vice President Sued by Plame And Husband ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071301092.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071301092.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, filed a lawsuit yesterday against Vice President Cheney, presidential adviser Karl Rove and former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, accusing the three of violating their constitutional rights in... ]]></description><author>Eric M. Weiss and Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Novak Says He Named 3 Sources in Leak Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100903.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100903.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he identified three confidential administration sources during testimony in the CIA leak investigation, saying he did so because they had granted him legal waivers to testify and because Special Counsel Patrick J....<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312039010" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312039010" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Fall Elections Are Rove's Next Test ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061602015.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061602015.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ White House political strategist Karl Rove emerges from the CIA leak case with his reputation scuffed, his power slightly diminished, and Republicans counting on him, once again, to help rescue their House and Senate majorities. ]]></description><author>Jim VandeHei and Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Reaffirms His Confidence in Rove ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402160.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402160.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush yesterday reaffirmed his trust in White House strategist Karl Rove, and GOP allies said the longtime presidential adviser has no reason to apologize for his role in the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity three years ago. ]]></description><author>Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Rove Will Not Be Charged In CIA Leak Case, Lawyer Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061300267.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061300267.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove will not be indicted in the CIA leak investigation, his attorney announced yesterday, a decision that signals that a special prosecutor's probe is unlikely to threaten any other Bush administration officials. ]]></description><author>Jim VandeHei</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Criminal Investigation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103100865.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103100865.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:03:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The following timeline outlines the investigation of the Plame affair which led to the Oct. 28, 2005 indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff and national security adviser for Vice President Cheney.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312039303" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312039303" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Suffers Setback In Document Request ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201090.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201090.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge yesterday rejected a bid by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to see a range of classified government documents that he asserted are needed to prepare his legal defense against charges of obstruction of justice and lying to government investigators. ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Filings in CIA Leak Case Paint Cheney as Determined to Counter Critic ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601757.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601757.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A string of recent court filings in the CIA leak case provide new details of Vice President Cheney's role at the center of an administration effort to rebut an outspoken critic of the White House's rationale for the Iraq war in the summer of 2003. They include his repeated discussions of the issue... ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith and Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Time Ordered to Give Internal Documents to Libby ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052600981.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052600981.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Time magazine must turn over some internal documents to former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's attorneys because the evidence could help his defense against perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges in the CIA leak case, a federal judge ruled yesterday. ]]></description><author>Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Prosecutor Focuses on CIA Officer's Status ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101024.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101024.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The classified status of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame will be a key element in any trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, according to special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312039720" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=27312039720" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Libby Denies Seeing Cheney's Notes on Newspaper Column ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052000951.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052000951.html?nav=rss_politics/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Reprinted From Yesterday's Late Edition Lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, said in a court filing late Friday that Libby did not see the notes Cheney inscribed on a key newspaper column criticizing the administration's rationale for... ]]></description><author>R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item>
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