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| Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST Cheney aide Libby indicted on five counts |
| Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. was indicted today on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement, and perjury in the CIA leak case. |
| Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST A rough road for 'Scooter'? |
| For nearly five years, Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been the perfect aide-de-camp for Vice President Dick Cheney--loyal, discreet, disciplined, self-effacing, and, most of all, anonymous. No more. Now Libby's name and photograph are staples of the nightly news and the blogosphere. His possible role in the furor over who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame has made him a central figure in a federal investigation that could rock the Bush administration. |
| Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST One mighty-determined plumber |
| Long before Osama bin Laden became a household name, a young federal prosecutor named Patrick Fitzgerald in the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York became steeped in the emerging world of jihad, toiling with little public recognition to prosecute some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, all with ties to the evolving Islamic fundamentalist movement. Men like Ramzi Yousef, who engineered the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993; Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian cleric who plotted to destroy New York tunnels, bridges, and other landmarks; the four leaders of the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; and, that same year, bin Laden himself. "He is a one-man encyclopedia on al Qaeda because he has this absolutely scary photographic memory," says Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who is Fitzgerald's best friend. "He is a one-man dot connector, which is very valuable." |
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