Rove Reportedly Tells Bush: I Will Be Indicted and Resign

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 Top Bush aide Karl Rove has told the president that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will resign upon the public announcement of the charges, according to Truthout. Rove may be charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House

Staff / Truthdig Apr 11, 2006 Democrats say Republican officials made two dozen calls to the White House in 2002 as part of a plot to tie up get-out-the-vote efforts in New Hampshire's 2002 Senate race. There are already three federal convictions and a pending indictment in the case. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Vanity Fair: Bush Had Ties to Abramoff

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 The indicted lobbyist says the president was close enough to him to joke about his weightlifting. "What are you benching, buff guy?" Abramoff said Bush asked him. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

DeLay Caught in a Lie

Staff / Truthdig Feb 24, 2006 At one time Tom DeLay called Jack Abramoff one of his "closest and dearest friends." What a difference an indictment makes. Think Progress surfaces a handwritten letter by DeLay in which he claims they were not close friends. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abramoff Got Indicted, and All We Got Was This Lousy $20 Gift Ban?

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Feb 21, 2006 Reform follows scandal as night the day, except in these sorry times, when it appears we may not get a nickel's worth of reform out of the entire Jack Abramoff saga. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Abramoff and the Mob

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2006 The Weekly Standard masterfully fleshes out the story of the floating casino company that Jack Abramoff bought from a Greek developer allegedly murdered by mobsters. |story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abramoff-Bush Photo Surfaces

Staff / Truthdig Feb 12, 2006 The New York Times publishes a 2001 picture of Jack Abramoff in a White House room with the president--along with an Indian tribal leader whom the now-indicted lobbyist was trying to sign up as a client. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McClellan Ducks Bush-Abramoff Questions

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2006 Bush's spokesman shows a remarkable knack for being able to pounce on new information when it may hurt Democrats, and for being unable to process new information when it may be damaging to the president. | video and transcript Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Did Cheney OK Libby’s Leak of Secret Info?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2006 Vice President Cheney's indicted former top aide, Scooter Libby, has told a grand jury that his "superiors" granted him permission to give secret information to reporters to help bolster the White House's case for war on Iraq. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Republicans Have No Shame; They Award DeLay a Cushy Seat

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2006 The indicted congressman lands a coveted appointment to the Appropriations Committee | storyHaving DeLay act as a fiscal watchdog makes about as much sense as electing Libya chairman of the U Human Rights Commission . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Florida Professor, Wife Arrested as Spies for Cuba

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2006 For over two decades, the couple allegedly passed on secrets about U.S. officials, FBI agents and anti-Castro groups. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Texas Roundup

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 6, 2005 No get-out-of-jail-free card for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay A Texas court upheld a felony indictment for DeLay on charges of money laundering in connection with a 2002 Texas election A separate indictment for criminal conspiracy was dismissed . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )