Who are the players in the investigation of the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name in the summer of 2003?
Karl Rove / Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson Timeline
This is an annotated compilation of blog posts and other writings on the Valerie Plame investigation.
In the third GOP presidential debate, the moderator asked the candidates if they supported a pardon for former Cheney aide Scooter Libby.
It's been a long time since the summer of 2003, when the Valerie Plame case first saw the light of day (and the ink of newsprint). These facts are continually disputed or forgotten.
Who are the players in the investigation of the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name in the summer of 2003?
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff and national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, resigned on 28 October 2005 after being indicated in the CIA leak known as the Valerie Plame affair.
Valerie Plame was an undercover operations officer until outed in the press by Robert Novak, classmate Larry Johnson writes. "All of my classmates were undercover... A few of my classmates, and Valerie was one of these, became a non-official cover officer... If caught in that status she would have been executed."
The DOJ bio/resume for special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Office web site for the DOJ investigation into the Valerie Plame affair.
This 2005 BBC profile of Ambassador Joseph Wilson focuses on his 2002 trip to Africa on behalf of the CIA.
Salon provides biographical information about Wilson in this 2004 profile that also explores his book, The Politics of Truth. In the article, he asserts Lewis "Scooter" Libby was the architect of the attack on his character and wife.
Short profile of the "famous Texan" handled Phil Gramm's run for the Presidency in 1996 and alledgedly "[a]ttended nearly half a dozen colleges without getting a degree."
Atlantic Monthly 2004 profile explores his campaign history and strategies as well as a willingness "to employ savage tactics."
Time magazine names Karl Rove "person of the week" in this 07 Novemeber 2002 profile of the President's political strategist.
Timeline of events surrounding the unveiling of Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative.
Think Progress web site designed to counter "spin" from the "right wing" regarding the Plame investigation.
US News profile of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. Columbia Law School followed Yale, where he met neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz. Libby joined Wolfowitz at the State Department in 1981 and at Defense in 1990. Cheney bought him into the campaign as an adviser in 2000 and made him chief of staff in 2001.
