Plame blame update
Remember the Valerie Plame affair from the fall? Kevin Drum links to a Washington Post story that suggests the investigation is gathering momentum: The Justice Department has added a fourth prosecutor to the team investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s identity, while the FBI has said a grand jury may be called to ...
Remember the Valerie Plame affair from the fall? Kevin Drum links to a Washington Post story that suggests the investigation is gathering momentum:
Remember the Valerie Plame affair from the fall? Kevin Drum links to a Washington Post story that suggests the investigation is gathering momentum:
The Justice Department has added a fourth prosecutor to the team investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s identity, while the FBI has said a grand jury may be called to take testimony from administration officials, sources close to the case said. Administration and CIA officials said they have seen signs in the past few weeks that the investigation continues intensively behind closed doors, even though little about the investigation has been publicly said or seen for months. According to administration officials and people familiar with some of the interviews, FBI agents apparently started their White House questioning with top figures — including President Bush’s senior adviser, Karl Rove — and then worked down to more junior officials. The agents appear to have a great deal of information and have constructed detailed chronologies of various officials’ possible tie to the leak, people familiar with the questioning said. The Justice Department has added a prosecutor specializing in counterintelligence, joining two other counterintelligence prosecutors and one from Justice’s Public Integrity section.
Still developing…
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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