Posts filed under “Plamegate”
Cheney’s FBI Interview in Plame Case
The notes from Dick Cheney‘s FBI interview in the Valerie Plame leak investigation have just been released. Turns out that Cheney lied through his teeth, essentially channeling Alberto “Buttercheeks” Gonzales: Today, after successfully winning a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, under court order, CREW received documents related to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview [...]
Cheney Loses Another One
Batten the hatches. Gird your loins. Circle the wagons. The sky is about to fall on our heads. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has just ruled that most of the FBI’s interview with Dick Cheney during the Valerie Plame investigation must be made public: A federal judge says the FBI must publicly reveal much of [...]
Judicial Restraint
And the beat goes on: A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI’s interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan‘s decision to review the documents followed arguments by Obama administration lawyers [...]
Obama Justice Department Strikes Again!
Here’s some news that made a splash in the blogs on Wednesday, but it still hasn’t managed to hit the mainstream media: the Obama Justice Department’s latest effort in their extremely successful ongoing campaign to out-Bush the Bushies. The Justice Department made a legal filing on Wednesday, urging the Supreme Court not to reconsider the [...]
Just Thinking Aloud
I wonder if Scooter Libby is thinking this too: if Bush plans to crank out some more pardons, specially some controversial ones, late this afternoon would be the most likely time to do it. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Subpoena Shadowboxing Soap Opera Continues
(1) So we had another development in the ongoing Subpoena Shadowboxing Soap Opera starring the Bush administration and every meaningful oversight committee in Congress. The House Government Reform Committee had issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey for the report of an FBI interview of Vice President Dick Cheney and other documents relating [...]
Bush Will Just Break His Heart Again
Scott McClellan seems to still nurse the naive belief that George Bush can be shamed into consistency with his own explicit or implicit standards. He explained to the House Judiciary Committee why Bush shouldn’t pardon Scooter Libby: Mr. Chairman, I believe that it would signal a special treatment, the same thing that happened with the [...]
Non-going Legal Investigation
Scooter Libby, after a carefully conducted cost-benefit analysis, has decided that despite being wholly innocent of the charges he was convicted of, he isn’t going to pursue his appeal of the conviction: I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney whose sentence for lying and obstructing justice in the CIA leak [...]
Depends On The Definition Of …
I really couldn’t choose between “Accountability” and “Sanity”, so feel free to pick the one you like. Georgie Bush was asked a great question at his press conference yesterday. What followed was, even by Georgie’s standards, unbelievable: Q Mr. President, I wanted to ask you about accountability. You’re a big believer in it, you’ve talked [...]
Unconscionable, But Who Cares?
I have a distinct memory that we used to be a nation with a conscience. In the country that we used to be, a case like that of Troy Davis would have caused spontaneous, widespread outrage: A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in [...]