Report: CIA Agent Fired for Leaking

Staff / Truthdig Apr 22, 2006 The CIA has fired an agent who allegedly leaked information about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe to The Washington Post, reports MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. Fox News has more. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Report: Fitzgerald Presents Rove Evidence to Grand Jury

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2006 It's the first time this year that Fitzgerald has told jurors that he would soon present them with a list of criminal charges he intends to file against the White House operative, according to Truthout's Jason Leopold. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Report: Cheney Authorized Libby to Leak CIA Report

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2006 We know: "Duh!" right? Well, here's what's new: The author of this article, using newly surfaced Libby testimony, all but accuses Cheney of outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent--which has been widely suspected but never confirmed. The National Journal's Murray Waas (the country's leading news-breaker on this story) has the scoop. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Now Powell Tells Us

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 Colin Powell told me that he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Prosecutor Puts Bush in the Spotlight

Staff / Truthdig Apr 11, 2006 Patrick Fitzgerald writes in a legal briefing, "It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to 'punish Wilson.' " Also, Bush formally admits to declassifying the intelligence later leaked by Libby to reporters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Channels Nixon in Libby Scandal

Staff / Truthdig Apr 6, 2006 In 1977, Nixon said, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal"? Well, Bush's lawyers allegedly said this about the leak of classified intelligence: "Presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to declassification of the document." Got it? When the president leaks it, that means it is not illegal. UPDATE: the White House tries to quell the furor over the leak. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

New Panel Assembled to Study Iraq War Policy

Staff / Truthdig Mar 15, 2006 Congress convened this bipartisan group of 10 prominent Americans--which includes former Secretary of State James Baker and former CIA Director William Casey--to assess Bush's policies in Iraq. We can't decide whether adults are finally being brought in to clean up the president's mess or this is a way of ignoring an issue by appointing a blue-ribbon panel to study it. Thoughts, anyone? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Olbermann on Bush’s Hypocrisy

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 The MSNBC host lays bare the White House's attack on press freedoms and whistle-blowers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

White House Opens Efforts Against Media Leaks

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2006 Bush & Co have launched FBI probes, polygraph investigations and warnings from the Justice Dept to stem leaks of classified (and non-classified) information to reporters Imagine if Bush were to spend an equal amount of time addressing the problems surfaced via the leaks Of course he never would do that, but perhaps he could ask Karl Rove what kind of information he has leaked . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Former U.S. Spy Chief: White House Misused Intel

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2006 The former CIA official who coordinated America's intelligence in the Middle East accused the Bush administration of misusing prewar intelligence to hype the Iraq threat. | storyThis is a big deal: it's the same unnerving story we heard firsthand from Richard Clarke when he left the White House. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Bush on Iraq Intel

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2006 America's former top spy for the Middle East accuses the White House of "cherry-picking information" to justify a decision it had already made to go to war. | storyWho wants to bet on how long it will take the CIA to start swift-boating this guy? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Top Counter-Terrorism Official Removed Amid Turmoil at the CIA

Staff / Truthdig Feb 7, 2006 The departure "comes at a time when the agency is bleeding top talent, robbing the CIA of institutional memory and damaging morale among case officers and analysts." | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )