FBI files of interviews with Bush, Cheney subpoenaed

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June 17th, 2008 1:49 pm
FBI files of interviews with Bush, Cheney subpoenaed

By Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A House of Representatives committee on Monday subpoenaed records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform demanded the documents from Attorney General Michael Mukasey days before former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is expected to testify about Cheney's role in leaking CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to the news media in 2003.

Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., asked for the transcripts late last year and renewed his request earlier this month after the committee received an unedited transcript of grand jury testimony in which former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was quoted as saying it was "possible" that Cheney had told him to leak Plame's name.

Waxman said that McClellan's book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," also raised additional questions about whether Cheney had directed McClellan to "mislead the public."

Waxman also wants the unredacted transcripts of FBI interviews with McClellan, former White House political adviser Karl Rove, Libby and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.