http://scooter.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Scooter en Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045928 unknown@Netscape.com The federal judge who oversaw 'Scooter' Libby's CIA leak trial said Thursday that he received threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing the former White House aide to prison. 'I received a number of angry, harassing mean-spirited phone calls and letters,' U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045928ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneythreatsagainstjudgeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2032034 unknown@Netscape.com Bush has pardoned 113 people during his presidency, including a Tennessee bootlegger and a Mississippi odometer cheat. But none has drawn the public scrutiny, nor posed the same political challenge, as the candidate that many conservatives hope will be pardon No. 114: I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to VP Dick Cheney. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:34:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2032034ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneypardonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2028158 unknown@Netscape.com Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:01:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2028158ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2029810 unknown@Netscape.com Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:01:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029810ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2027869 unknown@Netscape.com I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, will be sentenced Tuesday morning in federal court before U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, who presided over his trial. The sentencing begins at 9:30 a.m. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:22:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2027869libbycheneySentencingScooterNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2016438 unknown@Netscape.com An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003. Wed, 30 May 2007 00:58:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2016438ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1965191 unknown@Netscape.com The lawyers said any conversations Cheney and the officials had about Plame with one another or with reporters were part of their normal duties because they were discussing foreign policy and engaging in an appropriate "policy dispute. Sun, 20 May 2007 02:19:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1965191ScooterlibbychenyRoveValeriePlamejosephWilsonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1155205 unknown@Netscape.com Conservative pundits seem miffed that Valerie Plame, her cover blown, decided to pose for Vanity Fair or get a book deal or sell her story to Hollywood. Well, what do they expect? She lost her job, her career. She can't become a covert agent for Canada. Or Mexico. And just because she's bounced back doesn't mean she wasn't victimized. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:04:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1155205ScooterlibbyValeriePlamecialeaktrialDickcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1133290 unknown@Netscape.com In the new March 22 column, Novak can't seem to let go of a favorite right-wing myth - that Plame wasn't a "covert" CIA officer overseeing a sensitive network of spies informing the United States about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:37:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1133290ValeriePlameciaRoveScooterlibbycheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1032596 unknown@Netscape.com 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 political motives." Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:27:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1032596ValeriePlameciaRoveScooterlibbycheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1030492 unknown@Netscape.com Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, revealed today that to his knowledge the White House has never ordered a probe, report, or sanctions as a result of the outing of a covert CIA operative. "I have no knowledge of any investigation in my office," he said. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:02:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1030492ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyinvestigationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1018611 unknown@Netscape.com Douglas Feith was the author of the orders to disband the entire Iraqi army and destroy the civilian government infrastructure. I was a student in Germany after the Second World War. Even after ousting the the Nazis, America did not dismiss every school teacher and village administrator, but that's what the U.S. government did in Iraq. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:04:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1018611ScooterlibbyDouglasFeithiraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/973303 unknown@Netscape.com As Atrios first noted, a new CNN poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly believe that President Bush should not pardon Scooter Libby, who was convicted last week on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:03:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/973303ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneypardonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/972996 unknown@Netscape.com In the light of the Libby trial, he cannot be charged with perjury himself, but if he trashed an agent working on a real enough threat to the security of the US and Europe, out of personal spite, then there must be a prima facie case for impeachment. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:39:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/972996ScooterlibbychenyRoveciaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/935666 unknown@Netscape.com Jon Stewart's take on Scooter Libby's Conviction. Verdict: pants on fire. Sam Bee from the White House explains that Libby's memory isn't bad. It's drop-an anvil-on-your-head bad. Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:34:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/935666ScooterlibbyVerdictcialeakmemoryObstructionofjusticeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/912650 unknown@Netscape.com Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed after her husband criticized President Bush's march to war, will testify next week before lawmakers probing how the White House dealt with her identity, the chairman of the panel said Thursday. Also invited to testify March 16 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is Patrick Fitzgerald, Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:21:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/912650ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneycongressNews http://web2announcer.com/go/906650 unknown@Netscape.com The case was only marginally about Libby. What was really on trial was the whole culture of an Administration that treated the truth as a relative virtue, as something it could take or leave as it needed. Everyone knows now that Bush and Cheney took the country into a deadly, costly and open-ended war on flimsy evidence Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:01:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/906650DickcheneyScooterlibbybushadministrationiraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/892517 unknown@Netscape.com Lewis Scooter Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:13:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/892517AnnCoulterScooterlibbyelephantsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/884513 unknown@Netscape.com So Libby has taken the fall. Now maybe special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald can get down to the real business of finding out just why the entire White House smear operation was unleashed--why they went so far as to violate federal law and expose Wilson's CIA-operative wife, Valerie Plame. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:24:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/884513ScooterlibbycialeakperjuryfallguyDickcheneybushadministrationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/885737 unknown@Netscape.com In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment. With Tuesday's verdict on Mr. Libby - guilty on four of five counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice - Mr. Cheney's critics, and even some of his supporters, said the vice president had been diminished. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:05:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/885737ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/885127 unknown@Netscape.com The jurors who convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby believed Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff was set up as a fall guy, a juror said Tuesday, but they had no alternative to finding him guilty in the leak of the identity of a classified CIA operative. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:19:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/885127ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/885739 unknown@Netscape.com President George W. Bush has the constitutional power to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but will he do it? Democrats were immediately suspicious that he will, the White House was careful not to rule it out, and Intrade, an online prediction exchange on issues from politics to weather, opened a futures market on whether it would happen. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:11:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/885739ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneypardonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/683258 unknown@Netscape.com After five weeks and 19 witnesses into the CIA leak trial, jurors have begun deciding the fate of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Jurors heard a full day of closing arguments in Libby's perjury and obstruction trial Tuesday. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:54:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/683258ScooterlibbyValeriePlamebushcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/643085 unknown@Netscape.com Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation? Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:11:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/643085ScooterlibbychenyRoveciamediaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/555946 unknown@Netscape.com WASHINGTON - One figure has dominated the trial of Lewis Libby without even showing up in the courtroom. Day after day, the jury has heard accounts of the actions of Vice President Dick Cheney, watched as his handwritten notes were displayed on a giant screen, heard how he directed leaks to the news media Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:32:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/555946libbytrialScootercheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/555649 unknown@Netscape.com Now, as the defense phase of the perjury trial begins, Mr. Cheney is expected to make a historic appearance on the witness stand. It is an act of loyalty that carries considerable risk ... Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:11:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/555649ScooterlibbycialeakperjurytrialVPcheneyTestifiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/540457 unknown@Netscape.com On Monday, lawyers for the vice president's former chief of staff will start presenting their defense. But they will have to make some quick decisions. One of their potential star witnesses-Dick Cheney-is due to leave the country for a 10-day trip to Asia on Feb. 19. So conveniently or not, the vice president's loyalty to his former top aide may Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:20:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/540457ScooterlibbyValeriePlamecialeaktrialDickcheneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/513205 unknown@Netscape.com NBC's Tim Russert, the last prosecution witness in I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury trial, takes the stand again on Thursday. The "Meet the Press" host testified Wednesday he did not inform Libby of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, as Libby has said Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:50:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/513205timrussertScooterlibbyperjurytrialNews http://web2announcer.com/go/497788 unknown@Netscape.com The defense in I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury trial is expected to challenge the credibility of NBC's Tim Russert, the prosecution's star witness, on Thursday. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:52:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/497788ScooterlibbytimrusserttrialDickcheneyValerieWilsonJoeleakcianbcNews http://web2announcer.com/go/427444 unknown@Netscape.com Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald plans to play hours of recordings of that testimony in court next week to bolster his case that Libby lied and obstructed the investigation. "Scooter" Libby is fighting to keep his grand jury testimony about the leak of a CIA operative's name from being released and broadcast in the media. Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:52:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/427444cialeakcaseScooterlibbygrandJuryrecordingsspecialProscecuterFitzgeraldNews http://web2announcer.com/go/359829 unknown@Netscape.com White House bigwigs are called to testify in defense of former Vice Presidential aide 'Scooter' Libby. Among them, are presidential advisor Karl Rove and White House communications director Dan Bartlett. Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:32:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/359829cialeakcaseScooterlibbyKarlRoveDanBarlettwhitehouseBibwigsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/318342 unknown@Netscape.com It is unclear whether the first week of the trial will help or hurt Libby or the administration. But the trial has already pulled back the curtain on the White House's PR techniques and confirmed some of the darkest suspicions of the reporters upon whom they are used. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:38:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/318342ScooterlibbychenyRoveNews http://web2announcer.com/go/304955 unknown@Netscape.com Second day of the Scooter Libby trial: Ted Wells, the defendant's attorney, continued challenging the memories of the prosecution's witnesses to confuse jurors. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald called first witness, Marc Grossman, who was No. 3 at State Dept. Libby's previous testimony refuted. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:11:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/304955cialeakcaseScooterlibbytrialtestimonyiraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/291508 unknown@Netscape.com Opening statements are heard in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame Wilson leak investigation. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:20:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/291508cialeakcaseScooterlibbyValeriePlameWilsoniraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/181687 unknown@Netscape.com Libby, who served as an adviser to President Bush and chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, faces trial for perjury and obstruction in the CIA leak case. Jury selection was to begin Tuesday and attorneys for both sides want to ask potential jurors about their opinions of the Bush administration, political scandals and the Iraq war. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:58:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/181687cialeakScooterlibbyPoliticalscandalDickcheneyJuryselectionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/171409 unknown@Netscape.com 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. Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:31:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/171409ScooterlibbyDickcheneyValeriePlameleakNews