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Fitzgerald News Conference — FITZGERALD: Good afternoon. I'm Pat Fitzgerald. I'm the United States attorney in Chicago, but I'm appearing before you today as the Department of Justice special counsel in the CIA leak investigation. — Joining me, to my left, is Jack Eckenrode …
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Washington Post:
Cheney Adviser Indicted in CIA Leak Probe — Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Charged With Perjury, Obstruction of Justice and Making False Statements — A federal grand jury today indicted Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after a two-year investigation into the leak …
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Michelle Malkin:
INDICTMENT WATCH — ***scroll for updates throughout the day...223pm EDT liveblogging Fitzgerald news conference...240pm EDT Fitzgerald: "We have not made any allegation that Libby knowingly/intentionally outed a covert agent...300pm EDT "This indictment is not about the war.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE MOUNTAIN HAS LABORED AND BROUGHT FORTH A MOUSE: At least if this report from the Post is true: No Rove indictment, and only a lame False Statements Act charge against Libby, which wouldn't even relate to the underlying issue. This will be a blue Fitzmas for some people if it works out that way …
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ABCNEWS:
The End of the Chain of Information ... or the Beginning? — Libby has told the grand jury that he only learned about Plame's secret identity from other reporters and that he was only trading information that he didn't even know was true. But Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor appointed …
CNN:
Source: Prosecutor to seek Libby indictment — Rove will not be indicted Friday, sources say — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe, plans to ask members of the grand jury to indict Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff …
NY Daily News:
Spares selected if aides indicted — WASHINGTON - The White House was lining up replacements for two top aides yesterday in case they are indicted in the CIA leak investigation, sources said. — The term for the grand jury probing the unmasking of CIA spy Valerie Plame expires today …
Washington Post:
White House Braces for Indictment; Rove Said to Be Spared for Now — White House officials braced for the possibility that Vice President Cheney's chief of staff would be indicted in the CIA leak case today, while the lawyer for Karl Rove said the presidential confidant's case is still under investigation.
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Austin Bay Blog:UPDATED: Word to the White House- Don't Make The Mistake Of Defending Libby
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:At the Valerie Plame Employment Office
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Judd / Think Progress:
FULL TEXT: Libby's Indictments — Grand Jury Sworn in on October 31, 2003 — I. LEWIS LIBBY, also known as "SCOOTER LIBBY" — Count 1: Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. Counts 2-3: False Statements (18 U.S.C. INDICTMENT — COUNT ONE — (Obstruction of Justice) — THE GRAND JURY CHARGES:
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Michelle Malkin:
CPL. JEFFREY B. STARR: WHAT THE NYTIMES LEFT OUT — On Wednesday, the NYTimes published a 4,625-word opus on the "2,000 dead" milestone—a "grim mark," read the headline—on page A2. Among those profiled were Marines from the First Battalion of the Fifth Marine Regiment, including Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr.
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Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
With Career Derailed, Plame Likely to Leave CIA — What's next for Valerie Plame? — Lost in the din of the leak scandal that has consumed Washington is the very personal impact on the gracious, willowy CIA operative at its center. Plame, the wife of former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV …
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