Plame outing investigation goes deeper.....

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Career Lawyer Gets Oversight of CIA Probe

By MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
Friday, August 12, 2005; 10:20 PM

WASHINGTON -- David Margolis, a lawyer at the Justice Department for 40 years, was named Friday to oversee a special prosecutor's investigation of who in the Bush administration disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer.

Margolis, whose title is associate deputy attorney general, is taking the place of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, whose last day of work was Friday. Comey will be Lockheed Martin's new general counsel. Comey made the designation of Margolis. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has stepped aside from the probe because he was White House counsel when Valerie Plame's name was leaked in 2003 and he has testified to the grand jury investigating the unauthorized disclosure.

Comey gave broad discretion to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago when he was appointed to investigate the leak in December 2003. Margolis is not expected to alter Fitzgerald's mandate in what are likely to be the final months of his investigation. The grand jury ends its term in October.

No one has been charged in the Plame case. However, it's known that Karl Rove, a top aide to President Bush, and Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, discussed Plame with reporters before her name was first published by columnist Robert Novak in July 2003



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<link> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081201258.html

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1. This is good news...hope it stays that way! eom

[many a good man]

2. "Margolis is not expected to alter Fitzgerald's mandate"

I am not expecting the unexpected. I BETTER NOT be surprised!