Plame Probe expands-this is from Salon in their War room section

[roguevalley]

Plame probe expanded

The New York Times reports that prosecutors looking into whether someone in the Bush administration broke the law by outing the identity of a CIA 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."

"The broadened scope is a potentially significant development that represents exactly what allies of the Bush White House feared when Attorney General John Ashcroft removed himself from the case last December and turned it over to Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago. Republican lawyers worried that the leak case, in the hands of an aggressive prosecutor, might grow into an unwieldy, time-consuming and politically charged inquiry, like the sprawling independent counsel inquiries of the 1990's, which distracted and damaged the Clinton administration."

[Zeke]

1. Simple Math...

Republican = Traitors = Treason

[BillZBubb]

2. What's the timing on indictments?

Hopefully, we'll see something this summer.

[Nlighten1]

3. Link?