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"CIA leak probe 'widening to include use of intelligence' Financial Times All Financial Times News Evidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence. According to the Democratic National Committee, a majority of the nine members of the White House Iraq Group have been questioned by Mr Fitzgerald. The team, which included senior national security officials, was created in August 2002 to "educate the public" about the risk posed by weapons of mass destruction on Iraq. Mr Fitzgerald, who has been applauded for conducting a leak-free inquiry, has said little publicly about his 22-month probe, other than that it is about the "potential retaliation against a whistleblower", Joseph Wilson. After Mr Wilson, a former ambassador, went public with doubts about the evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons, the name of his wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA official, was leaked to reporters. The prosecutor has given no indication whether he will charge anyone in the case. At the weekend Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days after refusing to testify, provided new details about the scope of Mr Fitzgerald's investigation. She was asked "repeatedly" how Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, "handled classified information". Ms Miller said Mr Libby had made "a sharp critique of Mr Wilson", and referred several times to the fact his wife worked at the CIA. Ms Miller also expressed surprise at a letter sent by Mr Libby when she was in jail that, she said, could imply he was trying to influence her testimony. "I replied that this portion of the letter had surprised me because it might be perceived as an effort by Mr Libby to suggest that I too would say we had not discussed Ms Plame. Yet my notes suggested that we had discussed her job," she wrote. According to Time magazine, both Mr Libby and Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's chief political adviser, who has appeared four times before the grand jury, would resign or take unpaid leave if indicted for their role in the case. Mr Rove has been adopting a lower profile, backing out of two public speeches over the last week. However, Scott McClellan, White House spokesman, said yesterday: "Karl is here at the White House doing his duties, as he always does." The US failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq resulted in two inquiries into the prewar intelligence, one led by the Senate intelligence committee and the other by a White House-appointed panel. But both panels confined themselves to investigating the intelligence community, concluding that the White House was largely the innocent victim of faulty intelligence. Neither delved into the political use of the available intelligence by the administration."

Looks like Fitzgerald is looking for the motive.

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

10/17/2005 8:57:12 PM

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"Evidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence. make it a full-fledged witch hunt!"

10/17/2005 9:50:12 PM

i'll go ahead and throw in a [/thread] after that winner...

10/17/2005 9:54:33 PM

Don't go dislocating your shoulder while patting yourself on the back.

Motive, opportunity and means are elements of a crime.

10/17/2005 10:10:20 PM

what are the elements of a witch-hunt, though?

10/17/2005 10:24:52 PM

hmm, the shit might actually hit the fan yet. might not.

10/17/2005 10:25:07 PM

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"New York Daily News source believes senior White House official has flipped in leak case 10/17/2005 @ 9:54 pm Filed by RAW STORY The case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame is set to explode. The New York Daily News is set to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed source interviewed by the newspaper believes a senior White House official has flipped and may be helping the prosecutor in the case, RAW STORY has learned. The Daily News will reveal that a top source believes that based on the questioning of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his other contacts with the investigation, someone in the White House has turned. All eyes are on Dick Cheney, the News says, as the investigation wraps up. The piece follows on the heels of on a story by Bloomberg News and an article by RAW STORY last week confirming that the prosecutor is probing the Vice President. Also under a microscope is the White House Iraq Group, an ad-hoc strategy group started by Bush chief of staff Andrew Card aimed at selling the war in Iraq. Two officials close to Fitzgerald told RAW STORY they have seen documents obtained from the White House Iraq Group which state that Cheney was present at several of the group's meetings. They say Cheney personally discussed with individuals in attendance at least two interviews in May and June of 2003 Wilson gave to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus, in which he claimed the administration “twisted” prewar intelligence and what the response from the administration should be. DEVELOPING HARD..."

http://rawstory.com/admin/dbscripts/printstory.php?story=1325

10/17/2005 10:56:50 PM

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"DEVELOPING HARD..."

wtf?

10/17/2005 10:59:22 PM

Deep Throat.

10/17/2005 11:07:47 PM

man you're setting yourself up for such a let-down

kind of like nov. 2004

10/17/2005 11:19:17 PM

Cheney's being probed.

10/17/2005 11:23:33 PM

he probably is. thats why its a WITCH HUNT.

10/18/2005 8:31:18 AM

Blowing $80 million to investigate a BJ is a witchhunt.

This is a little more important - agree?

10/18/2005 10:17:00 AM

nope. taint important at all. thats why its a witch hunt.

10/18/2005 5:45:49 PM

Hmmm.

Maybe the GOP leadership finally went and pissed off the wrong people.

10/18/2005 5:46:59 PM

nah, just getting a taste of their own medicine.

10/18/2005 6:12:54 PM

10/18/2005 6:30:19 PM

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""If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration.""

10/18/2005 6:53:42 PM

^ OMG FLIP FLOP!

10/18/2005 6:58:53 PM