lawyer claims libby was fall guy for rove

January 24, 2007 | By New York Times News Service . WASHINGTON -- I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff, was made a scapegoat by the White House to protect the president's longtime political adviser Karl Rove, Libby's lawyer asserted in his opening..

freed reporter testifies in valerie plame matter

WASHINGTON -- Two years after the White House asserted that senior administration officials had nothing to do with disclosing the name of a covert CIA agent, a criminal inquiry of that leak moved a step closer to its end yesterday with questions about the role of the top aide to Vice President Dick..

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