CIA Asks Ashcroft to Investigate Outing of Plame
NBC is reporting that the CIA has requested that the Justice Department investigate whether or not the Bush administration broke the law by revealing to reporters that Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA operative specializing in WMD: CIA seeks probe of White House.
This is (potentially) a really big story. But of course, that assumes that John Ashcroft’s Justice Department is actually interested in, well, erm, “justice.” I’m not exactly holding my breath on that.
Link from Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo.
September 29th, 2003 at 12:15 pm
Bush Comments?
With all that’s going on, you may be wondering why I haven’t added any Bush comments here in a few days. Things are well-covered elsewhere at the moment. Take your pick: Absit Invidia, Tread Lightly, Lies.com. You can read the transcript of Tim Russert…