In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers - most members of the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the grand jury, including the vice president's top honcho, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and two top Cheney national security lieutenants.
Cheney's name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a secret snitch.
Daily News
I love this quote
"They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving them all of that," a source who has been questioned in the leak probe told the Daily News yesterday.
From the Financial Times yesterday
Evidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence.
LITBMueller posted these articles in the comment section in a diary below, they are good articles to review again before the indictments come down
Newsweek
Especially this one with this quote
Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.
According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were the two Cheney employees. "We believe that Hannah was the major player in this," one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president's office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.
The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah "that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time" as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said.
Keep an eye out for Larry Franklin too. I believe he has direct knowledge of the genesis of the forged Niger documents and how they ended up in prewar intelligence products. He has cut a deal presumably to testify against the AIPAC officials but I wouldn't be so sure. The FBI found a massive amount of classified documents at his house, his motive for leaking classified info to AIPAC, was to get a position in the NSC. Franklin thought the AIPAC guys could help him do that, so I wonder who the AIPAC guys knew in the Admin. that they could pull those strings, my guess is someone in the Veeps office and high up if not Cheney himself.