New CIA-leak disclosure may widen investigation

In addition to the unidentified source, Mr. [Bob Woodward] was quizzed about a June 20, 2003, interview he conducted with Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, and other conversations with Mr. [Libby]. Mr. Woodward said he has "no recollection" of discussing Ms. [Valerie Plame] with...

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Published inThe Wall Street journal Asia
Main Author Anne Marie Squeo and John D. McKinnon
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hong Kong Dow Jones & Company Inc 18.11.2005
Subjects
Criminal investigations
Disclosure
Indictments
Leaking of information
Public officials
Scandals
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Summary:In addition to the unidentified source, Mr. [Bob Woodward] was quizzed about a June 20, 2003, interview he conducted with Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, and other conversations with Mr. [Libby]. Mr. Woodward said he has "no recollection" of discussing Ms. [Valerie Plame] with either Messrs. Card or Libby and doesn't have corroborating evidence -- notes or tape -- to suggest otherwise. But he added that he believes the list of questions he brought to interview both men included the phrase "Joe Wilson's wife." Mr. Woodward doesn't say whether any government official specifically identified Mr. Wilson's wife by name. Also hanging over the White House is the possibility that Karl Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff, could be indicted. Mr. Rove has testified four times before the grand jury and remains under investigation. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is embroiled in the probe, mentioned in Mr. Libby's indictment as telling his former aide that Ms. Plame worked at the CIA's counterproliferation division. And Mr. Woodward's statement suggests that he planned to ask Mr. Cheney about Mr. Wilson's fact-finding on Iraqi weapons activity, and possibly planned to ask about Mr. Wilson's wife as well. "Woodward's disclosures are a bombshell to Mr. [Patrick Fitzgerald]'s case," said Ted Wells, an attorney for Mr. Libby. The disclosure that Mr. Woodward had two conversations with Mr. Libby, on June 23 and June 27, 2003, and "that Mr. Libby did not mention Wilson's wife undermines Mr. Fitzgerald's key theme that Mr. Libby was involved in a scheme to discredit Wilson by telling reporters about Wilson's wife's employment at the CIA."