Spy Games
From the New York Times:Prosecutors investigating whether someone in the Bush administration improperly disclosed the identity of a C.I.A. officer have expanded their inquiry to examine whether White House officials lied to investigators or mishandled classified information related to the case, lawyers involved in the case and government officials say.
In looking at violations beyond the original focus of the inquiry, which centered on a rarely used statute that makes it a felony to disclose the identity of an undercover intelligence officer intentionally, prosecutors have widened the range of conduct under scrutiny and for the first time raised the possibility of bringing charges peripheral to the leak itself.
The expansion of the inquiry's scope comes at a time when prosecutors, after a hiatus of about a month, appear to be preparing to seek additional testimony before a federal grand jury, lawyers with clients in the case said. It is not clear whether the renewed grand jury activity represents a concluding session or a prelude to an indictment.
Matt's Chat
This will spin out of control as I knew it would when Ashcroft bowed to political pressure and recused himself. If there is something to this, charges would have been brought by now. Continuing on now shows that there is a political motive behind the investigation and the allegation.It is clear that they don't really want an answer otherwise they would have subpeonaed Bob Novak himself by now. They would have asked him them question and he would have refused to answer it by now. But they haven't asked...and that answers a lot.
Mark's Remarks
More diversion and subterfuge from those with political agendas.....don't you just love the misdirection of hamsters? This case is a dead issue...Ms. Plame and her husband are writing books and making money on the Liberal Hate Bush Speech circuit. They are getting money politicizing their roles and dramatizing them....let's move on, shall we, to more important matters, LIKE FREAKIN' DEFENDING OUR NATION FROM TERROR AND TAKING DOWN THE ANIMALS THAT SEEK TO WIPE US OUT, eh?
