Judge orders FBI to release much of its interview with Cheney during CIA leak investigation. A federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.

Judge orders FBI to release much of its interview with Cheney during CIA leak investigation. A federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its notes from an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.

A federal judge ordered the US Justice Department to release significant portions of statements former vice president Dick Cheney made to the FBI about the Valerie Plame case.

Privacy, anti-terrorism, media issues divide Obama and his liberal allies in Congress. New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue some Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their sources in national security cases.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Cheney, then U.S. vice president, had harsh words for the CIA sending a spy's husband to Africa to see if Iraq was seeking nuclear material, according to an interview with the FBI released on Friday.

Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Citing faulty memory, former Vice President Dick Cheney told federal investigators in a 2004 interview he had no idea who revealed to reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.

Cheney's FBI interview featured 72 instances in which he said he could not recall. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.

Cheney's FBI interview featured 72 times in which he said he could not recall. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.

Cheney cites multiple memory lapses during FBI interview. A newly released transcript of a 2004 FBI interview of former Vice President Dick Cheney shows that he ? according to his own words, anyway ? had only fuzzy memories of a major incident that was then less than a year old.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir.

Appeals court backs decision barring Valerie Plame from disclosing length of CIA career. A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Novak, a conservative political columnist known as the "Prince of Darkness" and who unleashed a political firestorm by publishing the name of an undercover CIA operative, died on Tuesday. He was 78.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Novak, a conservative political columnist known as the "Prince of Darkness" and who unleashed a political firestorm by publishing the name of an undercover CIA operative, died on Tuesday. He was 78.

Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in July 2008. He was 78.

Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in July 2008. He was 78.

Savor the silence of America's self-serving champions of privacy. For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about the latest case of secret domestic surveillance ? because it is the ACLU that committed the spying.

Texas financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford is so broke he is struggling to find a lawyer while he sees his Caribbean islands, mansions and a fleet of jets sold off to pay victims of an alleged seven-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Conservative columnist Robert Novak remembered at Washington funeral. Political columnist Robert Novak was remembered Friday as a man committed to faith, family and craft.

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Political columnist Robert Novak, a conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in July 2008. He was 78.