2005 Plame affair timeline

1 2005

1.1 february 2005
1.2 march 2005
1.3 june 2005
1.4 july 2005
1.5 august 2005
1.6 september 2005
1.7 october 2005
1.8 november 2005

2005
february 2005

15 february 2005: citing supreme court s decision in branzburg v. hayes, dc circuit court of appeals rules first amendment not exempt judith miller , matthew cooper duty comply grand jury s subpoenas.

march 2005

23 march 2005: thirty-six news organizations file friend of court brief on behalf of judith miller , matthew cooper. among organizations filing new york times, washington post, abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, ap, newsweek, reuters, , white house correspondents, among many others. general position of these news organizations , reporters neither miller nor cooper should held in contempt of court refusing testify if no crime had been committed (i.e., no covert agent outed in violation of relevant statutes).

as evidence no crime had been committed, news agencies voluntarily filed friend of court brief in state on page 5:

b. there ample evidence on public record cast considerable doubt crime has been committed. [supporting facts , rationale offered in subsequent pages.]

according news agencies, there no need compel these reporters divulge sources because unlikely crime had been committed.

june 2005

27 june: supreme court declines hear miller , cooper s appeal of february circuit court ruling.
30 june: norman pearlstine, time inc. s editor in chief agrees provide documents concerning confidential sources of matthew cooper grand jury.

july 2005

july 2005: michael isikoff reports in newsweek karl rove spoke matt cooper days before novak story, , cooper initiated call , brought wilson , wife. cooper later tells gj call had nothing welfare.
1 july: lawrence o donnell, senior msnbc political analyst on mclaughlin group, stated: , know m going pulled grand jury saying source of...for matt cooper karl rove, , revealed in document dump time magazine s going grand jury.
4 july: rove s lawyer, robert luskin, admits newsweek rove did talk reporters wilson s wife before novak s story, without knowing name, in line assertion spoke reporters name after plame s identity revealed.
6 july: new york times reporter judith miller goes jail protect identity of persons leaked identity of cia agent.
6 july: rove’s lawyer, robert luskin, told newsweek rove did not call cooper give permission cooper testify.
7 july: new york times reports cooper s release testify resulted negotiations involving rove s , cooper s attorneys.
10 july: newsweek quotes rove lawyer robert luskin confirming rove source gave information time reporter matt cooper under pledge of confidentiality, , subsequently released him testify conversation grand jury.
11 july: rove s lawyer says, rove did not mention name cooper.
11 july: cooper did not call source rove. read wsj interview rove attorney luskin , decided testify.
11 july: white house spokesman mcclellan declines repeat categorical denials of rove s involvement in leak , state whether bush still pledges fire found have leaked.
13 july: matt cooper confirmed source on leak president bush s deputy chief of staff karl rove after receiving waiver confidentiality signed rove s attorney, robert luskin.
17 july: in abc news poll, plurality (47%) of people surveyed said white house not cooperating ongoing investigation; remainder either had no opinion (28%) or thought white house cooperating (25%).
18 july: president bush states [i]f committed crime, no longer work in administration. interpreted retraction of earlier promises fire involved in leak.
20 july 2005: robert muller, director of f.b.i., wrote letter (classified) praised italy s cooperation bureau in working determine source of forged niger-iraq document. f.b.i. concluded investigation documents forged personal profit , exonerated italian service intending influence american policy. result, f.b.i. had finished investigation origin of document.
22 july: senate democratic policy committee holds unofficial hearings on plame affair.
25 july: in gallup poll, 49% of respondents believe rove should resign.
26 july: john kerry , twenty-five other democratic senators call congressional investigations leak.

august 2005

8 august: in poll commissioned newsweek, 45% believed rove guilty of serious offence , 15% not guilty of serious offence , , 37% responded don t know.

september 2005

29 september 2005: judith miller released jail after agrees testify.
30 september 2005: judith miller testifies grand jury investigating plame cia leak.

october 2005

13 october 2005: judith miller testifies grand jury investigating plame cia leak.
14 october 2005: karl rove appears in front of federal grand jury investigating cia leak. fourth appearance.
28 october 2005: scooter libby indicted on 2 counts of perjury, 2 counts of making false statements , 1 count of obstruction of justice. resigns dick cheney s chief of staff. grand jury issued indictment disbands.

november 2005

4 november 2005: gen. nicolò pollari, italy s chief of military intelligence, told italian parliamentary committee on secret services rocco martino, former intelligence agency informer, source of forged niger-iraq document. did not, however, go far martino forger. news reports have stated martino claimed have gotten documents contact @ niger embassy in rome. pollari quoted telling committee no italian intelligence officers involved in forgery or distribution of document. pollari told committee martino claimed working french intelligence service. french intelligence spokesman called martino s claims scandalous without going far explicitly confirm or deny essence of martino s claim. la repubblica, in series of articles week earlier, claimed martino had produced forgeries letterhead , stamps purloined niger s embassy in rome in 2000. >




^ liptak, adam (16 february 2005). jailing of reporters in c.i.a. leak case upheld judges . new york times. retrieved 25 november 2013. 
^ amici brief (pdf). archived original (pdf) on 2006-03-04. 
^ link cited above outdated; related amicus curiae brief, see [1].
^ adam liptak (27 june 2005). court declines rule on case of reporters refusal testify . new york times. retrieved 25 november 2013. 
^ manly, lorne; kirkpatrick, david d. (1 july 2005). top editor @ time inc. made difficult decision own . new york times. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ isikoff, michael. rove factor? . msnbc.com. newsweek national news. archived original on 2005-07-06. 
^ (editor & publisher) (time magazine).
^ newsweek: rove spoke reporter before leak . cnn. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ white, josh (11 july 2005). rove told reporter of plame s role didn t name her, attorney says . washington post. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ cite error: named reference liptak-2005 invoked never defined (see page).
^ allen, mike; balz, dan (12 july 2005). bush aide deflects questions on rove . washington post. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ stout, david (11 july 2005). rove comes under new scrutiny in c.i.a. disclosure case . new york times. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ gary langer (2005-07-18). abc news: poll: many doubt white house cooperation in cia leak probe . abcnews.go.com. retrieved 2013-03-16. 
^ sanger, david e.; stevenson, richard w. (19 july 2005). bush responds questioning on leak case . new york times. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ hamburger, tom; wallsten, peter (18 july 2005). top aides reportedly set sights on wilson . los angeles times. archived original on 11 september 2005. 
^ source of forged niger-iraq uranium documents identified . informationclearinghouse.info. 2001-09-11. retrieved 2013-03-16. 
^ intel officers: bush needs punish rove plame outing . fox news. associated press. 22 july 2005. retrieved 15 december 2013. 
^ u.s. senator byron l. dorgan (d-nd) holds forum on national security implications of disclosing identity of covert intelligence officer: committee hearing (pdf). senate democratic policy committee. 22 july 2005. retrieved 15 december 2013. 
^ susan page (25 july 2005). court nominee in poll; rove not . usa today. retrieved 24 november 2013. 
^ dem senators urge congress probe cia leak . fox news. associated press. 26 july 2005. retrieved 15 december 2013. 
^ americans rove behind cia leak . angus reid global monitor. archived original on 2005-10-25. 
^ cnn.com - cheney s top aide indicted; cia leak probe continues - oct 28, 2005 . cnn. retrieved 30 april 2010. 
^ rove testifies in cia leak case. nbc news. 26 april 2006. retrieved 8 december 2013.
^ tom regan (4 november 2005). italy denies faking niger uranium documents: italian secret service names occasional spy source of forged documents . christian science monitor. archived original on november 7, 2005. retrieved 10 december 2013.