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...lost some of his confidence in the three people he listens to the most." Those three are his Vice President, Dick Cheney, whose top aide, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, has been charged with brazenly obstructing the investigation into who leaked the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame; Bush senior adviser Karl Rove, who while not indicted has still emerged as a player in the scandal; and chief of staff Andrew Card, who gets some of the blame for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina and even more for the botched Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. "All relationships with...
...policy in the White House but will have to regain the unfettered powers he once held. "The President's relationship with Karl has been damaged over the scandal," a Bush friend says. A source close to Rove says when Bush asked Rove whether he was responsible for leaking Plame's CIA identity to columnist Robert Novak, Rove told him "absolutely not." While that may have been strictly true, Fitzgerald's indictment suggests that Rove did at least discuss Wilson's wife with Novak, as he did with TIME's Matthew Cooper. As for Cheney, who retained Libby as the scandal...
...refusing to name the source and Time Inc. fighting the case all the way to the Supreme Court--which in June upheld the lower court's demand that the company turn over my notes and that I testify. Until now, that is the part of my involvement in the Plame affair that has drawn the biggest headlines: Time Inc. did turn over my notes, over my objections, and my other source--Rove--did grant me a waiver to testify (see "What I Told the Grand Jury," July...
...read I was a Republican hack. One day I read I was a Democratic hack. The only thing I did between those two nights was sleep." PATRICK FITZGERALD, special prosecutor leading the probe into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity...
...Timeline: How the Tale Unfolds A chronological look at the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame...