Who spilled the beans?

[khaosworks]

Can You Hear Me Now? By Mr. Terence Chua, Looking Forward To More Schadenfreude

Air Force One phone records subpoenaed
Grand jury to review call logs from Bush’s jet in probe of how a CIA agent’s cover was blown
BY TOM BRUNE
STAFF WRITER
March 5, 2004

WASHINGTON - 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.

And the subpoenas asked for a transcript of a White House spokesman's press briefing in Nigeria, a list of those attending a birthday reception for a former president, and, casting a much wider net than previously reported, records of White House contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news media outlets.

The three subpoenas were issued to the White House on Jan. 22, three weeks after Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was appointed special counsel in the probe and during the first wave of appearances by White House staffers before the grand jury.

The investigation seeks to determine if anyone violated federal law that prohibits officials with security clearances from intentionally or knowingly disclosing the identity of an undercover agent.

Man, I bet the White House wishes they didn't install that party line right about now. My money would be on Karl Rove, if I were a betting kind of guy.

So...

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Comments

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

Condi Rice knows better. Actually, all of them know better (except maybe Prince George himself). I agree Rove has his fingers in it, but I don't think he's dumb enough to do this the wrong way. The leak, if it's ever found, will be through Richard Perle or one of his rabid neocon lackeys.

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

How odd. I woke up with the song "Schadenfreude" from Avenue Q stuck in my head, and then found the word used in a sentence for just about the first time.

Dialogue from the song:

Nicky (a puppet): What's that, some kind of Nazi word?
Gary Coleman (who is played by a woman): Yep! It's German for 'taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others.'
Nicky: Gosh! That IS German!

The soundtrack is HIGHLY recommended.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

That's grand!