Newsday: White House Leak Records Sought???!!!!!

[West Coast Democrat]

Whoa!! Is this for real?

Newsday: White House Leak Records Sought

NEW YORK - A federal grand jury probing the leak of a CIA officer's identity has subpoenaed the records of phone calls from Air Force One made the week before the name of the officer was published in a July newspaper column, Newsday reported Friday.

The three subpoenas to President Bush's Executive Office also seek the July records created by an internal task force called the White House Iraq Group, which was created to publicize the threat of Saddam Hussein, Newsday said. The newspaper cited documents that it obtained. In addition, it said, the grand jury wants records of White House contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news organizations.

The subpoenas were issued to the White House on Jan. 22, Newsday said. The grand jury is trying to find out whether there were violations to a federal law that prohibits the intentional disclosure of the identity of an undercover agent by officials with security clearances.

The investigation stemmed from concerns that officials in the Bush administration had divulged the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame to discredit her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, because of his criticism of the administration's Iraq policy.

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

[madrchsod]

1. yes it is..it seems

Fitzgerald is doing his job.

[tom_paine]

2. Sought, but I think they've already been shreedded or "corrected"

79 days buys a lot of time to cover up, especially when the Cheif "Investigator" is to the Guilty Party as Himmler was to Heydrich.

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