Bush Aides Testify in Leak Probe: Grand Jury Called McClellan, Matalin

Washington Post ^ | 02/10/04 | Mike Allen and Susan Schmidt

[Pokey78]

A federal grand jury has questioned one current and one former aide to President Bush, and investigators have interviewed six others in an effort to discover who revealed the name of an undercover CIA officer to a newspaper columnist, sources involved in the case said yesterday.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday that he talked to the grand jury last week. Mary Matalin, former counselor to Vice President Cheney, testified Jan. 23, the sources said. Neither is suspected by prosecutors of having exposed undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, but both were questioned about White House public relations strategy, the sources said.

FBI agents have interviewed at least eight current and former Bush aides -- including Matalin and McClellan -- and have questioned them about thousands of e-mails that the White House surrendered in October, along with stacks of call logs and calendars, the sources said.

[Dolphy]

Mary Matalin, former counselor to Vice President Cheney, testified Jan. 23, the sources said. Neither is suspected by prosecutors of having exposed undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame

I like Matalin (which has gotten me flamed here) and wish her no ill, but it sure would have shut her husband up if she were the source.

[self_evident]

Wilson is an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), and has made campaign stops for him in Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Massachusetts and Washington state.

I still would like to know who in the CIA authorized a trip by a blatant partisan to undercut the president.

[pawdoggie]

I still would like to know who in the CIA authorized a trip by a blatant partisan to undercut the president.

Probably because CIA/DNC Secret Agent Plame recommended him.