2005
March 2005 - Media Groups Back Reporters In Court Filing - The friend-of-the-court brief was filed by 36 news organizations, including The Washington Post and major broadcast and cable television news networks, in support of reporters at the New York Times and Time magazine who face possible jail time for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the allegations. Those two organizations filed a petition Tuesday asking the full appeals court to review the case.
April 2005 - 4/5 - Cheney says he'd meet with Chalabi, but he's not choosing sides. *giggle* 4/7 - Wapo - The special prosecutor investigating whether Bush administration officials illegally revealed the identity of a covert CIA operative says he finished his investigation months ago, except for questioning two reporters who have refused to testify.
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The sources, who asked not to be named because the matter is the subject of a grand jury investigation, said Fitzgerald may instead seek to charge a government official with committing perjury by giving conflicting information to prosecutors.
4/19 - Appeals court refuses to rehear case.
July 2005 - 7/4 - Rove refuses interviews. Luskin, Rove's lawyer, says Rove spoke to Cooper 3 or 4 days before Novak's article. Luskin states flatly that Rove "did not tell any reporters" Plame worked for CIA. 7/6 - Matthew Cooper agrees to testify. Judith Miller refuses to testify and is taken into custody. Wapo speculates that Miller may have told Rove, not the other way around. 7/10 - Newsweek - Cooper's e-mail to his editors dated July 11th include this - Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip." [note that the emphasis is on who authorized the trip. At this point the question was still whether or not Cheney, after asking the CIA about the DIA report in 2002, had ever been briefed on the results of Wilson's trip. The administration was set on blaming the CIA for dropping the ball yet again. But shouldn't we wonder why Cheney showed no interest in a follow up to what could have been the smoking gun? Had he already made up his mind? Was asking the CIA what they thought of the DIA report, and his failure to follow up, just another example of Cheney's contempt for the CIA?]
April 2005 - 4/5 - Cheney says he'd meet with Chalabi, but he's not choosing sides. *giggle* 4/7 - Wapo - The special prosecutor investigating whether Bush administration officials illegally revealed the identity of a covert CIA operative says he finished his investigation months ago, except for questioning two reporters who have refused to testify.
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The sources, who asked not to be named because the matter is the subject of a grand jury investigation, said Fitzgerald may instead seek to charge a government official with committing perjury by giving conflicting information to prosecutors.
4/19 - Appeals court refuses to rehear case.
July 2005 - 7/4 - Rove refuses interviews. Luskin, Rove's lawyer, says Rove spoke to Cooper 3 or 4 days before Novak's article. Luskin states flatly that Rove "did not tell any reporters" Plame worked for CIA. 7/6 - Matthew Cooper agrees to testify. Judith Miller refuses to testify and is taken into custody. Wapo speculates that Miller may have told Rove, not the other way around. 7/10 - Newsweek - Cooper's e-mail to his editors dated July 11th include this - Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip." [note that the emphasis is on who authorized the trip. At this point the question was still whether or not Cheney, after asking the CIA about the DIA report in 2002, had ever been briefed on the results of Wilson's trip. The administration was set on blaming the CIA for dropping the ball yet again. But shouldn't we wonder why Cheney showed no interest in a follow up to what could have been the smoking gun? Had he already made up his mind? Was asking the CIA what they thought of the DIA report, and his failure to follow up, just another example of Cheney's contempt for the CIA?]
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