<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Patrick Fitzgerald: News &amp; Videos about Patrick Fitzgerald - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Patrick_Fitzgerald</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Patrick Fitzgerald from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:36:43 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Patrick Fitzgerald: News &amp; Videos about Patrick Fitzgerald - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/CRIME/08/20/mexico.drug.indictments/tztop.fitzgerald.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Patrick_Fitzgerald</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Patrick Fitzgerald from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Ten alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders indicted in U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/20/mexico.drug.indictments/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/20/mexico.drug.indictments/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ten suspected Mexican drug cartel leaders and 33 alleged drug traffickers have been indicted in New York and Chicago -- accused in illicit drug sales of more than $5 billion, federal authorities said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Panel recommends impeaching Blagojevich</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/08/illinois.governor.impeachment/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/08/illinois.governor.impeachment/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An Illinois legislative committee Thursday unanimously recommended impeaching embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich amid corruption allegations.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Panel investigating Blagojevich won't subpoena Obama advisers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/28/blagojevich/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/28/blagojevich/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After being told by prosecutors that their testimony could jeopardize the ongoing criminal investigation, the Illinois House panel considering impeachment charges against Gov. Rod Blagojevich will not subpoena advisers to President-elect Barack Obama, the panel's chairwoman said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama talked to prosecutors about Blagojevich, report says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/23/obama.gov.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/23/obama.gov.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President-elect Barack Obama last week talked to federal prosecutors investigating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to an internal report the Obama transition team released Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jackson Jr. went to authorities about Illinois governor</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/16/blagojevich/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/16/blagojevich/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who was cited in a criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich, went to the U.S. Attorney's office about alleged wrongdoers, including the Illinois governor, a Jackson spokesman said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawyer: I don't think Illinois governor will resign</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/15/blagojevich/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/15/blagojevich/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The attorney for embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday night that he does not believe Blagojevich will resign.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: I know what Illinois governor feels like now</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/colson.corruption/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/colson.corruption/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>If anyone knows how Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich feels right now, I do.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Idea of selling Senate seat is delusional</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/campbell.brown.illinois/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/campbell.brown.illinois/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Four words: Are you kidding me?</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jackson says he didn't 'pay to play' Illinois politics</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/senate.candidates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/senate.candidates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A law enforcement official connected to the investigation into Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich confirmed Wednesday that the person referred to in the criminal complaint against the governor as "Senate Candidate 5" is Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Land of Lincoln once again mired in political controversy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/illinois.corruption/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/10/illinois.corruption/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Illinois state politics read more like a script from "The Sopranos" than a page out of the history books.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. attorney regarded as a straight shooter</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/patrick.fitzgerald.bio/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/patrick.fitzgerald.bio/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who spearheaded the investigation that led to the arrest Tuesday of the governor of Illinois, is regarded by many as a lawman who rose from a modest background by dint of hard work.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blagojevich could pick Obama successor from prison</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/governor.appoints/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/governor.appoints/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The man with the sole authority to appoint a replacement for Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate was arrested Tuesday, shaking up the process to fill the president-elect's former seat representing Illinois.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Controversial Ex-Chicago Alderman Pleads Guilty</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1856126,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1856126,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A former Chicago politician pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a real estate kickback scheme just as his trial was about to begin.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Chicago cop indicted on charges related to torture</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/21/chicago.police.torture/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/21/chicago.police.torture/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A former Chicago police commander was arrested Tuesday on charges related to accusations that he and officers under his command tortured and abused suspects in the 1980s, federal officials said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Probe Reveals Ills at Chicago Jail</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1824326,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1824326,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A federal invstigation revealed prisoner mistreatment as well as sanitation and medical care problems at Chicago's Cook County Jail</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Judge questions Libby's probation after Bush clemency </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/03/libby.sentence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/03/libby.sentence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Bush spared former White House aide I. 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Lewis "Scooter" Libby, according to documents filed by the prosecutor in the case.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 01:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby's lawyers hint at defense tactics</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Defense attorneys for Lewis "Scooter" Libby plan to call Karl Rove as a witness and challenge the credibility of a former diplomat at the center of the CIA leak investigation, the lawyers said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 23:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rove testifies again in CIA leak case</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, testified Wednesday for a fifth time before a grand jury in the CIA leak investigation, Rove's attorney said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby's lawyers: Prosecutors withholding information </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/13/libby.lawyers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/13/libby.lawyers/index.html</guid><description>Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the indicted former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, are accusing federal prosecutors of withholding information needed to provide their client with a thorough defense.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Court documents: Libby testified that Bush OK'd intelligence leak</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide testified that President Bush authorized the release of parts of a classified report on Iraq to rebut criticism of the case for the 2003 invasion, federal prosecutors disclosed in documents released Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cheney says he has power to declassify information</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/16/cheney.classified/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/16/cheney.classified/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that an executive order gives him the authority to declassify secret documents, but he would not say whether he authorized an indicted former aide to release classified information.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Prosecutors can't read Libby's handwriting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Prosecutors have asked former vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to help them decipher his handwritten notes for use in an ongoing investigation stemming from the leak of a CIA agent's identity.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby, Abramoff, Brown sing like birds</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/10/schneider.tenors/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/10/schneider.tenors/index.html</guid><description>Here in Washington, the halls are alive with the sound of music.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby: My 'superiors' authorized leaks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, told a grand jury he was "authorized by his superiors" to disclose classified information from an intelligence report to reporters, according to the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Cheney aide gets trial date</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/03/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/03/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>The obstruction of justice trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney -- will begin almost a year from now, on January 8, 2007, a federal judge ruled Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>White House e-mail records missing?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/02/cia.leak.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/02/cia.leak.ap/index.html</guid><description>Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is raising the possibility that records sought in the CIA leak investigation could be missing because of an e-mail archiving problem at the White House.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libby's lawyers ask to see evidence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/26/libby.docs/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/26/libby.docs/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff filed a motion Thursday asking the judge in his case to force prosecutors to hand over government documents relating to his conversations with three reporters.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Political Plays of the Year</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/30/schneider.roundup/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/30/schneider.roundup/index.html</guid><description>Before auld acquaintance is forgot, let's bring to mind the political Plays of the Year, for auld lang syne.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>2005's legal highlights -- and lowlights</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/29/coffey.best/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/29/coffey.best/index.html</guid><description>Miami lawyer Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney and frequent CNN guest analyst, takes a wry look at the best and worst the legal world had to offer in 2005.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Roving investigator</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/12/cia.leak.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/12/cia.leak.tm/index.html</guid><description>Reporters like to be the ones asking the questions, but the Valerie Plame leak investigation just hasn't been working that way. In his quest to find out whether White House officials leaked that Plame was a CIA officer as a way to punish her husband Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador and a critic of the White House case for the Iraq war, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has got testimony from a parade of journalists, including Judith Miller of the New York Times, Matthew Cooper of TIME, NBC's Tim Russert and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. Now add one more to the list: TIME correspondent Viveca Novak.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Source: Time reporter deposed in CIA leak case</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/08/cia.novak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/08/cia.novak/index.html</guid><description>Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald continued his investigation into the leaking of a CIA agent's name by taking sworn testimony from a Time magazine reporter Thursday, said a source close to Time Inc.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Woodward unveiled</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/woodward.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/woodward.tm/index.html</guid><description>Bob Woodward became a legend at the Washington Post writing about what happens behind closed doors in the corridors of power. But last week the news was all about what happens behind closed doors at the Post. And rather than bringing clarity to the murky case of Who Leaked What to Whom about CIA operative Valerie Plame, the revelations about Woodward's role only added more complexity to both the case and the deepening debate over the rules star journalists get to play by.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA leak prosecutor says he needs to continue probe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/18/leak.fitzgerald/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/18/leak.fitzgerald/index.html</guid><description>Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he will have to bring more information before a new grand jury in the CIA leak probe, adding that his work is not complete.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Whodunit? The world may never know</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/18/woodward.source/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/18/woodward.source/index.html</guid><description>It's not like Bob Woodward, one of the most famous American newspaper reporters of all time, needed another "Deep Throat" to bolster his fame -- but that may very well be what he has.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Woodward adds twist to CIA leak case</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/16/woodward.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/16/woodward.leak/index.html</guid><description>An unnamed Bush administration official told the Washington Post's Bob Woodward the identity of a CIA analyst almost a month before it was publicly revealed, the reporter said in a statement published Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A White House without Rove?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/rove.wh.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/rove.wh.tm/index.html</guid><description>He's weary. His wife and only child, who is approaching college, miss him. He has monstrous legal bills. His unique bond with the president is under stress. His most important work is done.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Cheney aide pleads not guilty</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/03/leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/03/leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney's former top adviser made his first court appearance Thursday, pleading not guilty to felony charges of lying to investigators and a grand jury in the probe into a leak of a CIA agent's name.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>What Scooter Libby and I talked about</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/01/cooper.libby.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/01/cooper.libby.tm/index.html</guid><description>I was wet, smelling of chlorine. It was July 12, 2003, in Washington, a beautiful summer day, and I had just come back from swimming. All morning I had been trying to reach I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for a cover story about both President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's controversial Op-Ed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Joseph Wilson: 'Karl Rove should be fired'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/31/wilson.interview/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/31/wilson.interview/index.html</guid><description>Retired career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson has been a prominent figure throughout special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into who leaked the secret identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA leak probe continues</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/29/leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/29/leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>The CIA leak investigation is "not over," special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday after announcing charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reaction to CIA leak indictments</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/28/indictment.reax/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/28/indictment.reax/index.html</guid><description>Statements made Friday after the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on counts of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements:</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cheney's top aide indicted; CIA leak probe continues</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/28/leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/28/leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>The CIA leak investigation is "not over," special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday after announcing charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>White House braces for probe results</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>A curious and twisting episode that began in the sixth paragraph of a 2003 newspaper column could culminate Friday in criminal charges reaching to the top echelons of the White House.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sources: Prosecutor focusing on Rove</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is focusing his investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity on whether White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove committed perjury, two lawyers involved in the case told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA leak probe has Washington waiting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/26/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/26/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity adjourned Wednesday afternoon and Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald made no public announcement of any action.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll: Few doubt wrongdoing in CIA leak</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>Only one in 10 Americans said they believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical in connection with the leaking of a CIA operative's identity, according to a national poll released Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>An 'untouchable' force</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/fitzgerald.profile.txt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/fitzgerald.profile.txt/index.html</guid><description>Having earned acclaim in legal circles for targeting the likes of Osama bin Laden and mafia figure John Gambino, Patrick Fitzgerald may soon garner mainstream attention if his probe into the leaked identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame ensnares top Bush administration officials.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A contingency plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/17/cia.leak.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/17/cia.leak.tm/index.html</guid><description>Karl Rove has a plan, as always.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fear and tremblin' in Washington</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/14/fitzgerald/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/14/fitzgerald/index.html</guid><description>``Ain't you a-feared? Ain't you a-tremblin'?'' said a schoolmaster in a Dickens novel.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA leak grand jury to hear Miller again</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/11/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/11/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>New York Times reporter Judith Miller will make a second appearance Wednesday before a federal grand jury investigating the 2003 disclosure of a CIA agent's identity, a representative of the newspaper said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attorney: Rove didn't circulate CIA operative's name</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/10/cia.leak.rove/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/10/cia.leak.rove/index.html</guid><description>Karl Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said Monday his client "did not circulate" the name of an undercover CIA operative.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rove redux</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/10/rove.redux.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/10/rove.redux.tm/index.html</guid><description>As top Bush aide Karl Rove prepares for his fourth grand-jury appearance, the federal probe into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the media is believed to be wrapping up.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Miller to meet with CIA leak prosecutor</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/07/cia.leak/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/07/cia.leak/index.html</guid><description>The special prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation will interview New York Times reporter Judith Miller next week, according to one of Miller's attorneys, Floyd Abrams.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rove to testify again before CIA leak grand jury</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/cia.leak.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/cia.leak.probe/index.html</guid><description>Presidential adviser Karl Rove will give additional testimony to the grand jury hearing evidence in an investigation of the 2003 disclosure of a CIA agent's identity, his lawyer said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Miller: Went to jail for 'the public's right to know'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/miller.dobbs/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/miller.dobbs/index.html</guid><description>"New York Times" reporter Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, spent 85 days in jail protecting her confidential source in the White House CIA leak case. She was also fighting for the right to provide narrow testimony before a federal grand jury investigating that leak.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Miller hopeful her stand was justified</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/cia.miller/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/cia.miller/index.html</guid><description>New York Times reporter Judith Miller said Tuesday that she hopes the results of a probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity will justify the nearly three months she spent in jail for refusing to identify her source.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rove problem</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/25/rove.problem.tm.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/25/rove.problem.tm.tm/index.html</guid><description>Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week. Reporters tell stories and trade secrets, and her life, once a state secret, had become one of the most widely told stories in years. As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>White House clams up on CIA leak</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/12/cia.leaks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/12/cia.leaks/index.html</guid><description>With a criminal probe heating up into who exposed an undercover CIA agent, the White House spokesman is fending off sharp questions about what role U.S. President George W. Bush's top political adviser may have played in the case.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Curiouser and curiouser </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/11/cia.leak.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/11/cia.leak.tm/index.html</guid><description>It is not every day in the U.S. that a journalist is imprisoned for a story she did not write about a crime that may not have been committed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New York Times reporter jailed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/06/reporters.contempt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/06/reporters.contempt/index.html</guid><description>A federal judge ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name. She was taken into custody immediately.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Appeals court rejects reporters' appeal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/19/reporters.appeal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/19/reporters.appeal/index.html</guid><description>The full federal appeals court in Washington Tuesday rejected a request from two journalists facing possible jail sentences who had asked the court to reconsider a decision by a three-judge panel.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gonzales: CIA leak probe moving forward</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/15/cia.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/15/cia.probe/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday he believes the investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative nearly two years ago is moving forward appropriately.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Journalists facing jail</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/15/journalists.jail/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/15/journalists.jail/index.html</guid><description>The case grew out of a 2003 report by Robert Novak, a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times as well as a co-host of CNN's "Crossfire."</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New York Times reporter held in contempt</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/07/miller.contempt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/07/miller.contempt/index.html</guid><description>A federal judge Thursday declared New York Times reporter Judith Miller in civil contempt for her refusal to testify before a grand jury, but agreed not to jail her pending an appeal.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chicago man arrested in alleged bomb plot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/08/05/chicago.arrest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/08/05/chicago.arrest/index.html</guid><description>The FBI arrested a Chicago man Thursday on charges he plotted to blow up a federal courthouse with a truck bomb made from fertilizer, federal prosecutors said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A shifting probe?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/timep.probe.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/timep.probe.tm/index.html</guid><description>If there are culprits in the White House who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, they may now be dependent on reporters to protect their identities.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:20:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>