Bush Adviser Rice, CIA Head Interviewed in Leak Probe

[floda]

SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was interviewed as part of an investigation into whether an administration official leaked a covert CIA officer's identity to retaliate for her husband's criticism of the Iraq war, a U.S. official said Friday.
Rice was not under oath during the interview, which, a senior administration official said, took place "early on" in the investigation.

The official, who spoke to reporters traveling with President Bush to Ireland, would not say when the interview took place, but it appears to have been several months ago and had not been previously disclosed.

Bush was interviewed Thursday in the Oval Office by the U.S. attorney in charge of the investigation. Bush has retained a private lawyer, Jim Sharp, to represent him in the case.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5519271

[Career Prole]

1. "Rice was not under oath". Bull...this was a crime!

Put every one of those a**holes under oath! :grr:

[arcane1]

5. Clinton lied under oath, the repubes scream...

the Bushies know better than to make that error... and the freeps will excuse lying now, since it wasn't under oath

[Career Prole]

8. I know...

...and it's drivin' me batshit! :grr:
Damn 'em all!

[sweetladybug]

2. They'll all come out of everything smelling like a rose

The foxes are in charge of the chicken house,so we all need to move along and get over it.
ELECT KERRY 2004!!!!

[MajorFlaw]

4. Methinks you have it backward. Under the shrub administration, the

chickens are in the fox house.

[xchrom]

3. figures

the admin gets a pass no matter what they do.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

6. Friday p.m. dump, from across the pond ...

This is potentially not good news for the WH. Why else release the info on a Friday in summer?

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

7. and look when Tenet was interviewed!!

The story says he was talked to "about a month ago" ... he hurriedly announced his resignation about three weeks ago. A connection?

[hedda_foil]

9. Take a look at this from Wayne Madsen!

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/members/062504_grand_jury.html_P.html
GRAND JURY WILL SOON ISSUE EXPLOSIVE INDICTMENTS

by

Wayne Madsen

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U.S. intelligence sources have also said that Fitzgerald's investigation has gone far beyond the mere leaking of Plame's name, itself a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, but has expanded to look into the exposure of Plame's colleagues who worked under the cover of a CIA firm called Brewster, Jennings & Associates. The "brass plate" CIA proprietary had offices in Boston and Washington, DC. Active since 1994, Brewster-Jennings was instrumental in tracking the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and had agents or correspondents in a number of countries including Iraq, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, South Africa, Iran, Israel, China, Pakistan, Congo (Kinshasa), India, Taiwan, Libya, Syria, Serbia, and Malaysia. By releasing Valerie Plame’s name, other agents' non-official covers were blown and the lives of U.S. operatives within foreign governments and businesses may have been placed in danger. Therefore, Fitzgerald's investigation has reportedly been expanded to include the issue of whether members of the staffs of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Cheney and Bush themselves, the National Security Council, and the Departments of Defense and State, may have violated more serious espionage laws.

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The special prosecutor has been focusing on Bush, Cheney, presidential counselor Karl Rove, Cheney's chief of staff Lewis I. ("Scooter") Libby, Cheney assistants David Wurmser and John Hannah, and National Security Council officials Elliott Abrams and Stephen Hadley.

Recently, CIA Director George Tenet and Plame's ultimate boss, Deputy Director of Operations James Pavitt, suddenly resigned within hours of one another. Intelligence sources have said the two have been cooperating with Fitzgerald's investigation of the Plame/Brewster-Jennings leak and the damage to U.S. clandestine operations which globally track the flow of WMDs.

Sensitive CIA operations that were compromised by the leak included companies, government officials, and individuals associated with the nuclear smuggling network of Pakistan's chief nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. In addition, the identities of U.S. national and foreign agents working within the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, North Korea's nuclear laboratory in Yongbyon, Pakistan's Kahuta uranium enrichment plant, banks and export companies in Dubai, Islamabad, Moscow, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Liechtenstein, Cyprus, and Kiev, and Kuala Lumpur, and government agencies in Libya, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Iran were severely compromised. The CIA has reportedly given Fitzgerald highly classified details on the damage done to the CIA's WMD tracking network.


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Note: the full story is subscribers only. The link to the non-subscriber summary is at http://www.fromthewilderness.com

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

10. kick

Madsen's piece, apparently published today, talks about Tenet cooperation with probe. This falls on the same day that the WH makes it official that Tenet has been interviewed.

[lancdem]

11. Hedda, can you summarize when he said

the indictments will come?