Drip, drip, drip....
WSJ.com - CIA-Leak Probe May Cause Bush Long-Term Worry:
Questions about the outcome of a federal probe into the leaking of a CIA agent's identity could linger into the fall, creating a long stretch of uncertainty for President Bush and his team on a sensitive topic.
...On CBS's “Face the Nation” yesterday, Sen. Joseph Biden, (D., Del.), questioned whether White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis “Scooter” Libby were truthful in testimony to the grand jury helping investigate the leak. Mr. Biden also raised questions about the handling of the matter by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, now attorney general. On the same program, Mr. Gonzales defended his decision to leave the probe to federal prosecutors. On “Fox News Sunday,” the attorney general disclosed that he, too, had given testimony in the case.
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Among other things, prosecutors seem to be interested in whether administration officials' stories match those of the reporters they talked to. Mr. Rove, who has testified three times, has told authorities that he learned of the agent's identity from a journalist, or possibly another administration official who learned it from a journalist, according to a person familiar with his testimony.There also have been indications for at least a year that Mr. Libby told prosecutors that he learned of the agent's identity from a journalist. One who was asked about that last year, NBC's Tim Russert, repeated yesterday on “Meet the Press” that he wasn't Mr. Libby's source. It's possible that Mr. Fitzgerald wants to find out if Ms. Miller was Mr. Libby's source.
Mr. Rove's recollection of his conversation with Mr. Cooper may be of interest because of divergences with Mr. Cooper's account of its details...Another possible source of White House aides' information is a classified State Department memo that circulated on Air Force One -- and possibly elsewhere in the administration -- that identified the agent Valerie Plame using her married name, Wilson. At the time, administration officials were trying to counter claims by her husband that the Bush administration had twisted intelligence data to justify the Iraq invasion.
And for the record, Biden is not really a Democrat, and especially is not a democrat.
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