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PLAMEGATE

 See also:  Joseph Wilson


“Plamegate” centers around I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who, beginning in January 2001, was employed as Assistant to the President of the United States, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. In the course of his work, Libby had frequent access to classified information which he was obligated not to disclose to persons unauthorized to receive it. At issue in this case was Libby’s obligation to safeguard the anonymity of a particular CIA employee, Valerie Plame Wilson.

Valerie Plame Wilson is the wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who in 2002 was sent by the CIA to the country of Niger to investigate allegations involving Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium yellowcake, a processed form of uranium ore. Valerie Plame Wilson played a key role in arranging her husband’s fact-finding trip. Joseph Wilson orally reported his findings to the CIA upon his return, stating that the allegations (of Iraq’s “yellowcake” endeavors) were unequivocally wrong and were based on forged documents.

Nonetheless, on January 28, 2003, President George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address which included sixteen words stating that “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” This contradicted Joseph Wilson’s assertions. Critics of the President have pointed to this contradiction as evidence that Mr. Bush, in order to justify a preemptive invasion of Iraq, had ignored Wilson’s findings and had knowingly misled the American public about Iraq’s efforts to acquire the raw materials for weapons of mass destruction. (It should be noted that virtually every assertion Wilson made in his report would eventually be exposed as untrue. In 2004, a bi-partisan Senate committee investigating intelligence failures leading up to the war exonerated the President: “We conclude also that the Statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that ‘The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa’ was well-founded.”)

On July 6, 2003, Joseph Wilson published an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times titled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.”

Suspicions arose that Libby, on behalf of the White House, tried to retaliate against Mr. Wilson (who had made the report discrediting President Bush’s public statement) by leaking information exposing Valerie Plame Wilson’s status as a CIA employee. The alleged leaks were made to members of the press, particularly New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

In September 2003, the Department of Justice authorized the FBI to commence a criminal investigation (which included interviews of Libby) of the matter. Beginning in January 2004, a grand jury conducted an investigation into possible violations of federal criminal laws by Libby and other government workers. A major focus of the grand jury investigation was to determine which government officials had disclosed to the media information concerning the affiliation of Valerie Plame Wilson with the CIA, and the nature, timing, extent, and purpose of such disclosures.

On October 28, 2005, Libby was officially charged with one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false statements to FBI investigators, and two counts of lying to the grand jury. He was not charged with the actual leaking of a CIA officer's name.

Major Introductory Resources:

Timeline: The CIA Leak Case
By National Public Radio
July 2, 2007

The Left's Libby Lie
By Ben Johnson
April 7, 2006

Leakgate: What About Wilson's Credibility?
By Larry Elder
November 3, 2005

Timeline of the Leak
By The New York Times
November 1, 2005

Timeline: The Valerie Plame Affair
By Associated Press
October 28, 2005

Key Players in the Plame Affair
Compiled by Tanya N. Ballard and Kevin Dumouchelle
October 20, 2005

Joe Wilson's Top Ten Worst Inaccuracies And Misstatements
July 14, 2005


Additional Key Resources:

Manufacturing a Crime
By Thomas Sowell
January 9, 2009

Free At Last
By Ben Johnson
July 3, 2007

Here's What Congress Should Ask Valerie Plame
By Byron York
March 15, 2007

Libby's "Guilty": So What?
By Ben Johnson
March 7, 2007

The Libby Travesty
By The Wall Street Journal
March 7, 2007

The Libby Travesty
By James Taranto
March 6, 2007

The Trial of 'Scooter' Libby (Special Comprehensive Edition)
By The New York Sun
February 6, 2007

The Libby Injustice
By Wall Street Journal
January 20, 2007

CIA Leak
By Robert Novak
September 13, 2006

Joe Wilson: The End of an Error
By Ann Coulter
September 6, 2006

Just a Simple Case of Mistaken Identity
By Debra J. Saunders
September 1, 2006

The Ridiculous End to the Scandal that Distracted Washington
By Christopher Hitchens
August 29, 2006

Plamegate, RIP
By Ben Johnson
August 28, 2006

Case Closed
By Christopher Hitchens
July 25, 2006

My Role in the Valerie Plame Leak Story
By Robert Novak
July 12, 2006

How Did the CIA's Special Envoy Miss Zahawie's Trip to Niger?
By Christopher Hitchens
April 17, 2006

Sorry Everyone, but Iraq Did Go Uranium Shopping in Niger
By Christopher Hitchens
April 10, 2006

Documents, Resolutions, and Reports Regarding Iraq War and "Niger-gate"
By FindLaw.com
2006

Who Is Lying About Iraq?
By Norman Podhoretz
November 11, 2005

Plamegate's Real Liar
By Max Boot
November 2, 2005

The Grinch Who Stole Fitzmas
By Jonah Goldberg
November 2, 2005

Joe Wilson's "Secret" Wife
By James Taranto
November 1, 2005

Indictment Against I. Lewis Libby
By Patrick Fitzgerald, Special Prosecutor
October 31, 2005

Libby's Plight Began with Joe Wilson's Lies
By The Mobile Register
October 29, 2005

The Incredibles
By Stephen Hayes
October 25, 2005

The Miller Case: A Notebook, A Cause, a Jail Cell and a Deal
By Don Van Natta, et al
October 16, 2005

The Plame Truth About Judith Miller
By John Hinderaker
October 3, 2005

The Nine Lives of Joe Wilson's Reputation
By The Weekly Standard
July 25, 2005

Joe Wilson’s Amazing Left-Wing Dreamland
By Ben Johnson
July 22, 2005

Mission Implausible
By Ann Coulter
July 14, 2005

Karl Rove, Whistleblower: He Told the Truth About Joe Wilson
By The Wall Street Journal
July 13, 2005

A Litany of Leftist Lies
By Jacob Laksin
August 13, 2004 

The Lies of the “Bush Lied” Crowd
By Michael Barone
July 20, 2004

What Ambassador Joseph Wilson and His Wife Forgot to Tell Us about the Yellow-Cake Scandal
By Christopher Hitchens
July 13, 2004

Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission
By Susan Schmidt
July 10, 2004

Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq
(See esp. pages 39, 40, and 72)
By U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence
July 7, 2004

The Plame Affair
By Ben Johnson
November 7, 2003

Mission to Niger
By Robert Novak
July 14, 2003

Plame's Lame Game: What Ambassador Joseph Wilson and His Wife Forgot to Tell Us About the Yellow-Cake Scandal
By Christopher Hitchens
July 13, 2004

Our Man in Niger
By Clifford May
July 12, 2004

What I Didn't Find in Africa
By Joseph Wilson
July 6, 2003


Other Resources:

Libs' Darling Strikes Out
By Glenn Garvin
June 22, 2009

McClellan on Plame
By Robert D. Novak
June 2, 2008

Shadow Warriors
By David Forsmark
February 4, 2008

Plame-out
By Rich Galen
July 20, 2007

Whatever Happened to Lynne Stewart?
By Ben Johnson
July 12, 2007

Commutation Sets Stage For Libby's Exoneration
By Roger Aronoff
July 9, 2007

Libby's Clemency Justified, Unlike Many Clinton Pardons
By David Limbaugh
July 6, 2007

The Elusive Quality We Call Justice
By Paul Greenberg
July 6, 2007

Pardon Me
By P. S. Ruckman Jr.
July 6, 2007

Dems: Selective Outrage
By Rich Galen
July 6, 2007

Hair-raising Stuff from Good Ol' Bubba
By Wesley Pruden
July 6, 2007

Do the Clintons Now Support Jail Time For Perjurers?
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
July 6, 2007

Justice Served with Libby Commutation
By Dan Proft
July 6, 2007

Our Faux Constitutional Crisis
By Rich Lowry
July 5, 2007

Snow Apologizes -- Sort Of, Kinda
By John Gizzi
July 5, 2007

Commutation Rubbish
By J.P. Freire
July 5, 2007

Bush Calls Libby's Prison Term 'Excessive'
By Susan Jones
July 3, 2007

Libby's Independence Day
By Debra J. Saunders
July 3, 2007

Halfway Toward Righting a Wrong
By Wesley Pruden
July 3, 2007

Appropriate Presidential Mercy
By The NRO Editors
July 3, 2007

Why Bush Saved Libby
By Byron York
July 3, 2007

Hillary Defends Husband's Pardons, Blasts Bush Decision
By NewsMax.com
July 3, 2007

Bush Spares Libby From Prison Sentence
By Townhall.com
July 3, 2007

Liberals and Conservatives for Libby
By Bob Tyrrell
June 21, 2007

Dear Judge Reggie...
By Stephen F. Hayes
June 15, 2007

Libby Ordered to Jail While Waiting on Appeal
By Melanie Hunter
June 14, 2007

Respite for Scooter
By P. S. Ruckman Jr.
June 14, 2007

Fitzgerald: Put 'Scooter' Libby Behind Bars Now
By NewsMax.com
June 12, 2007

Gonzales, Yes; Libby, No
By Robert D. Novak
June 11, 2007

Don't Feel Terrible, Mr. President. Act.
By William Kristol
June 9, 2007

Prosecute Plame?
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
June 8, 2007

Yes, Free Libby
By William F. Buckley
June 8, 2007

Sentencing of Scooter Libby
By Fred Thompson
June 7, 2007

"Family Responsibility" Discrimination
By Larry Elder
June 7, 2007

Who, Me?
By William Kristol
June 5, 2007

Pardon Him
By The NRO Editors
June 5, 2007

Did Valerie Plame Wilson Tell the Truth?
By Byron York
May 25, 2007

The Right Thing to Do
By Jack Kemp
April 3, 2007

Scooter Libby Is No Bill Clinton
By Tom DeLay
March 27, 2007

A GOP Congressman Asks Questions About Valerie Plame Wilson’s Testimony
By Byron York
March 26, 2007

Was Valerie Covert?
By Robert D. Novak
March 22, 2007

Hollywood Nation Spotlight: Valerie Plame
By James Hirsen
March 20, 2007

Plamnesia--II
By James Taranto
March 20, 2007

Plamnesia
By James Taranto
March 19, 2007

Senate Intel Committee: What Valerie Plame Didn’t Tell Us
By Byron York
March 19, 2007

'I'm Not a Lawyer' and Other Distortions From Valerie Plame
By Amanda B. Carpenter
March 19, 2007

Valerie Plame: The Movie
By NewsMax.com
March 19, 2007

Lies About a Liar
By Alan Nathan
March 16, 2007

Lewis Libby Didn’t Compromise National Security, but Others Did
By Cliff May
March 15, 2007

Lessons from the Libby Verdict
By Richard D. McLellan
March 14, 2007

My Friend Scooter Libby
By Joseph Bottum
March 10, 2007

Pardon Libby Now
By William Kristol
March 9, 2007

Meatgrinder Politics
By Thomas Sowell
March 9, 2007

Memo to Karl Rove
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
March 9, 2007

Liberal La-La Land
By Lorie Byrd
March 9, 2007

Scapegoat
By Linda Chavez
March 9, 2007

Whose Fall Guy?
By David Limbaugh
March 9, 2007

It Wasn't About Libby at All
By Mona Charen
March 9, 2007

Remember Everything -- Or Goes to Prison?
By Charles Krauthammer
March 9, 2007

Patrick Fitzgerald's Disgrace
By Rich Lowry
March 9, 2007

The Joe and Valerie Show
By Jonah Goldberg
March 9, 2007

Scooter Libby and Bush's Unkept Promise
By Steve Chapman
March 8, 2007

The Lost Scandal
By Robert D. Novak
March 8, 2007

What's In A Lie?
By Emmett Tyrrell
March 8, 2007

Libby
By Bill Bennett
March 8, 2007

Shooting Elephants in a Barrel
By Ann Coulter
March 7, 2007

Libby Verdict
By Robert Novak
March 7, 2007

Reiding into a Fantasy
By The NRO Editors
March 7, 2007

Law and Disorder
By Fred Thompson
March 7, 2007

'Superlawyer' Blasts Libby Verdict, Calls for Pardon
By John Gizzi
March 7, 2007

Lynched by the Media
By Jed Babbin
March 7, 2007

A Pardon Is Certain
By John Podhoretz
March 7, 2007

The Cost of Libby
By New York Sun Editorial
March 7, 2007

Questionable Prosecution, Sure Verdict
By Debra J. Saunders
March 7, 2007

The Left: Character Assassins
By David Strom
March 7, 2007

A Cottage Industry for Coulter
By Rich Galen
March 7, 2007

Why Libby Lost
By Byron York
March 6, 2007

Martyr of the War Party
By Patrick J. Buchanan
March 6, 2007

Remember Armitage?
By David Frum
March 6, 2007

Pardon Libby
By The NRO Editors
March 6, 2007

Does the Libby Verdict Have Appeal?
By Victoria Toensing
March 6, 2007

Today's Verdict
By Bill Bennett
March 6, 2007

The Verdict
By Mark Levin
March 6, 2007

Travesty
By David Frum
March 6, 2007

I Don't Agree
By Mark Levin
March 6, 2007

The Libby Trial: What’s With the Jury?
By Byron York
March 5, 2007

Libby Trial Reveals Media Hypocrisy
By Andrew C. McCarthy
February 27, 2007

Case Closed
By NRO Editors
February 21, 2007

Scooter Who? In Closing Arguments, Fitzgerald Points the Finger at Dick Cheney
By Byron York
February 21, 2007

Only if Everything We Now Know to Be False Were True
By Jack Kelly
February 20, 2007

The Libby Trial: Did Fitzgerald Prove His Case?
By Byron York
February 20, 2007

Why Libby Didn’t Testify
By Byron York
February 15, 2007

If There Was a Conspiracy to Out Plame, How Come Libby Didn’t Tell Woodward? Or Novak? Or Pincus, Or…?
By Byron York
February 13, 2007

Scooter, Jay, Ron and Dick
By Jed Babbin
February 12, 2007

Woodward Tape: Armitage Leaked Plame's ID
By NewsMax.com
February 12, 2007

'Scooter' Libby: NBC News Can Clear Me
By NewsMax.com
February 12, 2007

Trial of the Absurd
By John Podhoretz
February 9, 2007

“Did You Tell Mr. Libby That Wilson’s Wife Worked at the CIA?” “No.”
By Byron York
February 8, 2007

Yellowcake and Yellow Journalism
By Ann Coulter
February 7, 2007

Is Everything We Know About Joe Wilson’s Trip to Niger Wrong?
By Byron York
February 7, 2007

Libby Judge: Even I Don’t Know Plame’s Status
By Byron York
February 5, 2007

A Farce and an Outrage
By Mona Charen
February 2, 2007

Good Reasons to Scoff (and Yawn) at the Libby Trial
By Michael Medved
February 1, 2007

Free the Fitzgerald One!
By Ann Coulter
January 31, 2007

An Unnecessary Investigation
By David B. Rivkin Jr. & Lee A. Casey
January 25, 2007

The Libby Trial: Whose Memory Problems?
By Byron York
January 25, 2007

The Libby Trial Reveals a White House at War with Itself
By Byron York
January 24, 2007

The Real Issue in the Libby Trial
By Byron York
January 23, 2007

The Libby Trial: Jury Selection and Selective Outrage
By Ben Johnson
January 18, 2007

Pardon Scooter Libby
By Rich Galen
January 17, 2007

Nifong-ing Scooter?
By Jack Kelly
January 16, 2007

Cheney: 'Scooter' Libby an 'Honest' Man
By NewsMax.com
January 14, 2007

Judge This Book by Its Author's Cover
By James Taranto
January 8, 2007

Plamegate Fadeout I. Borger: Without Rove, Media Lost Interest
By Media Research Center
September 18, 2006

Plamegate Fadeout II. Newsweek's Thomas: Plamegate a 'Big Zero'
By Media Research Center
September 18, 2006

Plamegate Fadeout III. Novak Regrets Reporters 'Don't Say Sorry'
By Media Research Center
September 18, 2006

The Case of the Missing Crime
By Clarice Feldman
September 16, 2006

The Disloyalists
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
September 5, 2006

The Plamegate Hall of Shame
By Fred Barnes
September 2, 2006

Joe Wilson's 15 Minutes of Fame Are Up
By Michael Lewis
September 1, 2006

Will Joe and Valerie Wilson Sue Richard Armitage? No.
By Byron York
August 31, 2006

Fess Up, Mr. Armitage
Wall Street Journal
August 30, 2006

Plamegate Over
By Linda Chavez
August 30, 2006

Journos Who Tell the Truth - For the Right Price
By Jack Kelly
August 29, 2006

The CIA-Leak Fiasco
By Byron York
August 28, 2006

A Concerted Effort Against Valerie Plame?
By Byron York
July 26, 2006

Valerie Plame: Keep Conspiracy Alive
By Byron York
July 25, 2006

The Story Remains the Same
By Lorie Byrd
July 21, 2006

Why Is Valerie So Plame Silly?
By Kevin McCullough
July 16, 2006

Joe Wilson, Mark Lane, and More
By The Scrapbook
July 15, 2006

Wilson and Plame Want Help Paying for Lawsuit
By Susan Jones
July 14, 2006

Plamegate: Mystery Solved
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
July 13, 2006

Closing the Book on NovakGate
By James H. Joyner, Jr.
July 13, 2006

The L Word
By NRO Editors
July 12, 2006

Still Obsessed with "Plamegate"
By Byron York
June 21, 2006

Plameologists in Crisis: With Rove Off, CIA Leak Fans Wonder What’s Next
By Byron York
June 15, 2006

Say, It Ain't So, Joe
By James Taranto
June 13, 2006

No Indictment of Rove in CIA-Leak Case
By Byron York
June 13, 2006

Valerie Who?
By James Taranto
June 2, 2006

Libby and Fitzgerald: Big Case vs. Little Case
By Byron York
May 10, 2006

Plame's Outing Damaged National Security, Dems Say
By Susan Jones
May 3, 2006

Leak Soup
By Victoria Toensing
April 30, 2006

The CIA Leaker Had No Agenda, Huh?
By Jack Kelly
April 25, 2006

Libby: Cheney Never Told Me To Discuss Valerie Plame Wilson
By Byron York
April 13, 2006

Lowball, All the Way Around
By Debra Saunders
April 13, 2006

Did the Justice Department Really Want to Investigate the CIA Leak?
By Byron York
March 14, 2006

A CIA Leak Trial Without the CIA Leak
By Byron York
February 27, 2006

Fitzgerald Refuses to Show Evidence That Valerie Wilson Was Classified
By Byron York
February 23, 2006

The Leak Double Standard
By Rich Lowry
February 7, 2006

Valerie Plame: Was She, or Wasn’t She?
By Byron York
February 6, 2006

Fitzgerald: Was Any Damage Done By the Valerie Wilson Leak? I Don’t Know.
By Byron York
February 2, 2006

The Dishonesty Of The New York Times
By Captain's Quarters
January 18, 2006

Leak Double-Standards
By Linda Chavez
December 29, 2005

The Plame Game (or Can’t Anyone in DC Keep Their Mouths Shut)
By Michael P. Tremoglie
November 28, 2005

As Thanksgiving Approaches
By Ben Stein
November 21, 2005

What Bob Woodward Knew
By Michael Barone
November 18, 2005

Bob Woodward's Belated Disclosure Raises Troubling Questions
By Jonathan Turley
November 18, 2005

With Newest Revelations, More Questions
By Tucker Carlson
November 18, 2005

Mortuary Bob Exposes Another Cover-Up
By Wesley Pruden
November 18, 2005

Woodward Claim on CIA Leak Disputes Charge
By Toni Locy and Pete Yost
November 16, 2005

Plame's Life in Danger? Spare Me!
By Tucker Carlson
November 14, 2005

Joe Wilson's Threat Against Me
By Joseph Farah
November 9, 2005

General Wants Wilson Apology
By Art Moore
November 8, 2005

Vallely 'Outs' Wilson on National Television
WorldNetDaily
November 8, 2005

Three Years of the Condor
By Scott Johnson
November 8, 2005

A Spooked White House
By Stephen F. Hayes
November 7, 2005

There's Something Eminently Jestworthy about the Dems' Wild Indignation in Wake of Libby Indictment
By Bob Tyrrell
November 3, 2005

Joe Wilson's 60 Minutes
By Thomas Joscelyn
November 2, 2005

Libby Indictment a Political Dud
By David Limbaugh
November 1, 2005

The Fitzgerald Investigation Snags Libby with a Fishing License Indictment
By Thomas Sowell
November 1, 2005

Valerie Wilson Investigation: Weird & Puzzling
By Tucker Carlson
October 31, 2005

Joe Wilson in a Bind
By Clinton W. Taylor
October 31, 2005

Still Nothing Criminal
By Joel Mowbray
July 19, 2005

Joe Wilson’s Credibility Problem
By Joel Mowbray
July 15, 2005

The Press Won’t Tell the Rest of the Joe Wilson Story
By Dave Kopel
July 19, 2004

Wilson Lied, Kids Died
By Ann Coulter
July 15, 2004

A New Look at Bush’s “Sixteen Words”
By Jeff Jacoby
July 12, 2004

The Left's Attemp to Discredit Bush's Iraq Policy
By David Horowitz
2004

Whopper: Joseph Wilson
By Timothy Noah
December 3, 2003

Why Did Bush Go to War?
By Charles Krauthammer
July 21, 2003





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