Topic: Valerie Plame

AP News | 2009-11-12 18:50:17
Appeals court backs decision barring Valerie Plame from disclosing length of CIA career

A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision in its ruling Thursday. The decision barred Plame from revealing the length of her tenure with ...

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Reuters US Online Report Domestic News | 2009-11-12 17:30:26

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and her publisher Simon & Schuster sued the CIA in 2007 to overturn its efforts to black out the dates she worked for the ...

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AP News | 2009-11-02 12:27:51
Cheney's FBI interview featured 72 instances in which he said he could not recall

Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way. On ...

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AP News | 2009-10-31 19:33:02
Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame

Citing faulty memory, former Vice President Dick Cheney told federal investigators in a 2004 interview he had no idea who revealed to reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA. Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis ...

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A History of Slander

In These Times | 2010-01-11 05:03:27

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