White House-CIA Leak Records Sought

[West Coast Democrat]

White House-CIA Leak Records Sought

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The White House has received and is complying with subpoenas from a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity, President Bush's spokesman said Friday.

After receiving the subpoenas in late January, the White House counsel's office sent a letter to staff members "urging everyone to comply fully with the request," Scott McClellan said.

"We're still in the process of complying fully," McClellan told reporters during a briefing in Crawford, Texas, where Bush is spending the weekend.

Asked whether any White House staff member had claimed Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify during sessions with the grand jury, McClellan replied: "I have no knowledge of any invoking their right against self-incrimination."

More....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=2&u=/ap/20040305/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak

[pinto]

1. don't see any mention of the Air Force one phone logs......

[West Coast Democrat]

2. Here is a link re: the Air Force One Subpoena

(I posted it earlier in GD, but it got locked)

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-usleak053695946mar05,0,2088096.story

WASHINGTON -- The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone calls in the week before the officer's name was published in a column in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday.

Also sought in the wide-ranging document requests contained in three grand jury subpoenas to the Executive Office of President George W. Bush are records created in July by the White House Iraq Group, a little-known internal task force established in August 2002 to create a strategy to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

And the subpoenas asked for a transcript of a White House spokesman's press briefing in Nigeria, a list of those attending a birthday reception for a former president, and, casting a much wider net than previously reported, records of White House contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news media outlets.

[pinto]

3. thanks, wanted to "bump" that point...

;)

[louis-t]

6. Hmmmm, White House Iraq Group?

Just gets better and better doesn't it?

[West Coast Democrat]

7. I noticed that part also!

I hope they keep on digging!

[symbolman]

4. Thanks to a DU'r

last night we've been trumpeting their find of a missing White HOuse transcript of July 12th that has been subpoenaed --

it's NOW BACK UP at the WHite House site, but it wasn't before..

the power of the web or the press in action..

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/whitehousejuly12.html

[stepnw1f]

5. A small yet HUGE vistory.

Thank you DU'ers!!!