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CPB Faces Questions about CEO Compensation

The CPB Board is facing a new set of questions as a result of recent audits of its financial conduct. They show that the two most recent chief executives have received compensation in excess of their published annual salaries of $170,000 -- and such compensation could be illegal.

CPB Faces Questions about CEO Compensation

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Locating the Source of the Plame Leak

Woodward Apologizes for Role in CIA Leak Case

The Washington Post's Bob Woodward apologizes for not disclosing that he learned the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame in June 2003. Woodward testified in the CIA leak case that someone other than Karl Rove or I. Lewis Libby told him about Joseph Wilson's wife before the other known leaks.

Woodward Apologizes for Role in CIA Leak Case

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Locating the Source of the Plame Leak

Woodward Says He Was Told About Plame

Famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward testified Monday that a senior Bush administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity nearly a month before it was publicly exposed.

Woodward Says He Was Told About Plame

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Report Finds Ex-CPB Chair Violated Law

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Inspector General has released a report that finding former CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson violated federal law in his efforts to rid the public airwaves of what he called its liberal bias.

Report Finds Ex-CPB Chair Violated Law

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CPB Report Details Ex-Chairman's Wrongdoings

A Corporation for Public Broadcasting report finds that former chief Kenneth Tomlinson violated statutory provisions and the director's ethics code. He also allegedly used "political tests" as a factor in hiring a new president. Tomlinson denounced the findings as being politically motivated.

CPB Report Details Ex-Chairman's Wrongdoings

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Reporter at Center of CIA Outing Leaves 'NY Times'

Reporter Judith Miller retired from The New York Times on Wednesday. Miller spent 85 days in jail to protect a confidential source at the center of an probe into whether White House officials leaked the name of a CIA operative to the press to retaliate against the operative's husband, a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's Iraq war strategy. Madeleine Brand talks with NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik about why Miller's once-supportive editors at the Times began to doubt her.

Reporter at Center of CIA Outing Leaves 'NY Times'

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Circulation Decline Continues for Daily Newspapers

Paid circulation is down for 18 of the nation's 20 largest papers, according to the latest figures. The drop is part of a decline that shows little sign of letting up.

Circulation Decline Continues for Daily Newspapers

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Tomlinson Resigns from CPB Board

Kenneth Tomlinson resigns from the board of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. The former CPB chairman's departure from the board comes amid an investigation of allegations that Tomlinson applied undue political pressure on public radio and television.

Tomlinson Resigns from CPB Board

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Tomlinson Resigns from CPB Ahead of Report

Kenneth Tomlinson, who stepped down as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting earlier this year, is now leaving the CPB board altogether. The resignation comes ahead of the results of an internal inquiry into Tomlinson's allegedly politically motivated moves at the CPB.

Tomlinson Resigns from CPB Ahead of Report

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Locating the Source of the Plame Leak

White House Press Secretary McClellan Under Fire

Scott McClellan is under fire from the White House press corps because of the Valerie Plame case. David Folkenflik looks at the conflict and McClellan's odd position in the long line of White House press secretaries.

White House Press Secretary McClellan Under Fire

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Reporters Find Themselves at Center of a Scandal

A grand jury investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame has generated numerous subpoenas to reporters, and even landed one of them in jail. But the role of one reporter, the catalyst of a two-year political scandal, has remained a mystery.

Reporters Find Themselves at Center of a Scandal

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Libby Story Stretches from Iraq to Domestic Politics

A timeline of events shows that the Valerie Plame leak story began with an assertion that Iraq was seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction. It now encompasses the indictment of a key Bush administration official.

Libby Story Stretches from Iraq to Domestic Politics

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Charting Robert Novak's Role in the Plame Case

A grand jury investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame has generated multiple subpoenas to reporters and even landed one of them in jail. But the role of conservative columnist Robert Novak, the catalyst of the two-year political scandal, remains a mystery.

Charting Robert Novak's Role in the Plame Case

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