Plame is apparently not forgotten, as the federal grand jury investigating her outing has
expanded its prove.
The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone calls in the week before the officer's name was published in a column in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday.
Also sought in the wide-ranging document requests contained in three grand jury subpoenas to the Executive Office of President George W. Bush are records created in July by the White House Iraq Group, a little-known internal task force established in August 2002 to create a strategy to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
I hadn't previously heard of this White House Iraq Group, but it definitely includes all of the prime suspects.
It met weekly in the Situation Room, the Post said, and its regular participants included senior political adviser Karl Rove; communication strategists Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin and James R. Wilkinson; legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio; policy advisers led by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen J. Hadley; and I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Libby is the current prime suspect, though Rove's presence should give us renewed hope of seeing him "frogmarched" out of the White House. And does Libby really tool around in Air Force One? Nah, that would point the finger at either Rice or Rove. Rice, being a policy person, would be unlikely to spend time dishing dirt to reporters.
Rove, on the other hand...
(Hadley, by the way, is the guy who took the blame for the discredited "Yellowcake" reference in Bush's 2003 SOTU.)
