House Republicans delay vote on McCain anti-torture amendment
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) delayed a vote on a proposed torture ban on Thursday, while Democrats accused him of holding off in order to protect Vice President Dick Cheney. Democrats had planned on offering a motion...
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby pleaded not guilty Thursday morning in federal court to charges of obstructing justice, perjury and making false statements. The former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney was indicted last...
Perjury, Lies and Degrading Treatment: The Case for the McCain Amendment
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says passing the McCain Amendment prohibiting coercive interrogation practices would be an important step forward towards re-establishing America's reputation for respecting the rule of law, and could open the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Sandra Jordan of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, former Associate Independent Counsel for the Iran/Contra prosecutions, says the prosecution of Scooter Libby and perhaps others in the Fitzgerald probe of the leak of CIA operative...
A lawyer for former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , who resigned Friday after a grand jury indictment , has outlined a possible defense for his client's alleged false statements before a grand...
Fitzgerald Libby indictment press conference transcript [WP]
Transcript of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's Press Conference, October 28, 2005 . Read the full transcript of the press conference via...
In a brief statement Friday afternoon outside the White House, President Bush called Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's "legal proceedings" against resigned Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby "serious", but stressed that Libby is presumed innocent...
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , who served as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney before resigning Friday following his indictment on obstruction of justice and perjury charges in the CIA leak case...
US v. I. Lewis Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, October 28, 2005 [indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, US Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false...
KGW.com is reporting that the federal grand jury empaneled in the CIA leak probe has handed up an indictment for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, on charges of...
