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The CIA leak scandal timeline ( also known as the CIA leak case timeline, the Plamegate scandal timeline, and the Plame affair timeline ) pertains to the controversy leading to the CIA leak grand jury investigation and ensuing criminal trial United States v. Libby, following Robert Novak's public disclosure of the then-still classified covert identity of United States Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame Wilson ( known as the " CIA leak scandal " and also known as " Plamegate " and the " Plame affair ").
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When Karl Rove was being questioned by the FBI over the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity in the press, Ashcroft was allegedly briefed about the investigation.
* July 14 – CIA leak scandal: Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative.
In 1994, after Ames, the FBI and CIA formed a joint mole-hunting team to find the suspected second intelligence leak.
It is a felony to reveal the identity of a CIA agent, yet no one has been convicted as a result of Novak ’ s column, though I. Lewis ' Scooter ' Libby, Dick Cheney ’ s Chief of Staff, was convicted of perjury in the Plame leak investigation.
Fleischer became an important figure in the CIA leak case ; he testified that Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff, told him that Valerie Plame was a covert agent weeks before Libby had claimed to have been informed of Plame's status by a reporter.
* Former Vice-Presidential adviser I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice in March 2007 for his role in the investigation of a leak to reporters that named a CIA agent, Valerie Plame.
As America struggles to cope with the aftermath of the attack dubbed as the " Information Crisis " by the media, Fisher infiltrates the CIA headquarters and accesses the CIA computer mainframe, allowing Grimsdottir to trace the location of the data leak to the personal computer of Mitchell Dougherty, and Fisher is ordered to bring him in for interrogation.
He also broke several major stories in his career, and he played a role in media events such as the CIA leak scandal.
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* The canary trap was also used in Clancy's ( chronologically ) earlier novel, Without Remorse, when a CIA official alters a report given to a senator, revealing an internal leak who was giving information to the KGB.
* July 14, 2003: CIA leak scandal began
When to name her sources, Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the CIA leak.
In July 2005, Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA officer.
Wilson serves as a guest speaker and panelist in conferences and other programs devoted to African business policies and political affairs as well as on the matters pertaining to the CIA leak scandal.
* CIA leak scandal timeline
In recent years, a larger effort by journalists to press for federal shield laws formed following the Plame affair / CIA leak scandal, in which reporters who released the name of Valerie Plame were asked who their sources were.
Examples include Air America, used by the CIA during the Vietnam War, and Brewster Jennings & Associates, used by the CIA in WMD investigations and made public as a result of the so-called " Plame affair ", or " CIA leak scandal ".
NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper challenged the subpoenas issued in connection with the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame, citing their First Amendment rights as reason not to reveal their confidential sources.
Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U. S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.
In mid-July, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief political advisors, Karl Rove and Lewis " Scooter " Libby respectively, came under fire for revealing the identity of covert Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) agent Valerie Plame to reporters in the CIA leak scandal.
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In 1967, The Ford Foundation was implicated in a wide-ranging scandal concerning CIA funding of domestic and international organizations.
is a former CIA agent, later involved, as an electronics expert, in the Watergate burglaries ( which precipitated the Watergate scandal ).
The largest scandal of the years was the Iran-Contra affair, wherein weapons had been sold to Iran, and the proceeds used by the CIA to aid Contras in Nicaragua.
The witness list included members of the military, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA who had come forward about such issues as warrantless eavesdropping and the Abu Ghraib scandal in Iraq.
A scandal erupted when it became public that he had an adulterous affair with a CIA employee during the 1980s.
Later, when the Iran-Contra scandal broke out and widespread allegations of Contra drug trafficking emerged, the CIA attempted to lay all the blame for any and all Contra drug trafficking at the feet of Pastora.
* " USG0-1 " in AIPAC espionage scandal is former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack
This led to a public embarrassment for George Tenet, the director of the CIA, as well as the Valerie Plame scandal.
Initially, as the subject of one of his manuscripts, the primary focus was on the drug wars, but because of Pete Brewton's January 1990 newspaper series about the Houston S & L scandal, in which Brewton alleged that the Bush family, CIA members, and Mafia members took part in a de facto conspiracy to steal vast sums of money, Lombardi shifted his emphasis to investigating the laundering of the stolen money.
Amid this, The Times of London reported that Hadley was Bob Woodward's source for Valerie Plame's name in the CIA leak scandal, but this report proved to be false when Richard Armitage admitted that he was Woodward's source.
* On May 12, FBI officials raided the Vienna, Virginia, home of former CIA official Kyle " Dusty " Foggo in connection with the scandal.
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In the Deadpool Pulp timeline, Stryfe is a younger, corrupt General, who alongside Cable and J. Edgar Hoover hire Wade Wilson ( who in this timeline is a former CIA man, turned merc ) to get back a stolen nuclear briefcase.
In the Deadpool Pulp timeline, Cable is now General Cable, who, along with Stryfe ( also a General ) and J. Edgar Hoover, hires former CIA man Wade Wilson to get back a stolen nuclear briefcase.
: Note: This subject is also referred to as: " CIA leak case timeline ", " Plamegate scandal timeline ", and " Plame affair timeline ".
The " Timeline / Links " section of The Joe and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust provides links to " several timelines assembled by various national publications, which should help to shed some light on the events as they transpired ," including this timeline, while observing: " Understanding the series of events that occurred around the exposure of Valerie Wilson's covert CIA status is somewhat difficult due to the misleading and contradictory statements given by various officials regarding the leak.
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Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.
He was also allegedly involved in a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro ; documents uncovered during congressional investigations into John F Kennedy's death bring to light a message outlining how he had plans to assassinate Castro, his brother Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara.
The World Factbook ( ISSN ; also known as the CIA World Factbook ) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.
It also received assistance from personnel from other government agencies, especially from CIA personnel in Central America.
The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.
Research into hypnosis in military applications is further verified by the MKULTRA experiments, also conducted by the CIA.
Wright also speculates that the CIA may have been protecting intelligence operations overseas, and might have been eying Mihdhar and Hazmi as recruitment targets to obtain intelligence on al-Qaeda, although the CIA was not authorized to operate in the United States and might have been leaving them for Saudi intelligence to recruit.
Philby was also responsible for liaising with the CIA and promoting " more aggressive Anglo-American intelligence operations.
He also said that he revealed this to the CIA, saying " What we told them was these people were on our watch list from previous activities of al-Qaeda, in both the.
Among them were Michael Townley, a DINA U. S. expatriate who had once worked for the CIA ; General Manuel Contreras, former head of the DINA ; and Brigadier Pedro Espinoza, also formerly of DINA.
He is also the only former Major League Baseball player whose baseball card is displayed at CIA headquarters.
U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.
The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques, and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro.
LSD was also administered to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions.
The intent was to ensure coordination and concurrence among the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and other instruments of national security policy ( such as the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), also created in the National Security Act ).
ITT president Harold Geneen also offered $ 1 million to the CIA to help defeat Allende in the elections.
Any such revelation would also expose CIA / Mafia connections that could lead to unwanted scrutiny of suspected CIA / Mafia participants in the assassination of the president.
According to the 2011 CIA World Factbook, countries with more than 110 males per 100 females at birth also include Albania and former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Following this report, which also claimed that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme, then President Francesco Cossiga requested the opening of investigations while the CIA itself officially denied these allegations.
Brenneke's background was also investigated by a U. S. Senate subcommittee, which dismissed Brenneke's claims of CIA employment.
* AMTRUNK: A CIA plan by New York Times journalist Tad Szulc initiated in February 1963, also called the " Leonardo Plan ," that was " an attempt to find disgruntled military officials in Cuba who might be willing to recruit higher military officials in a plot to overthrow Castro ", as well as to overthrow the Cuban government " by means of a conspiracy among high-level ... leaders of the government culminating in a coup d ' etat ".
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