FEBRUARY 2005 was when Fitz sought phone records of NY Times reporter Phillip Shenon in the probe of a leak by a government employee about a planned raid on the offices of the Global Relief Foundation.
The Sept. 11 report says that ``press leaks plagued'' most actions to freeze assets in the United States taken by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. -------- "U.S. Probes Alleged (NYT) Leak on Terror Probe," by CURT ANDERSON, AP Writer , Associated Press (The Guardian), 9/10/04 Friday
[* Hmmm- then could someone at Treasury be the leaker?
Could it be Paul O'Niell?
2002 : (US TREASURY : TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL O'NIELL IS FIRED) President George W. Bush's performance at cabinet meetings resembled that of "a blind man in a room full of deaf people", according to Paul O'Neill (pictured), who was fired as Treasury secretary in 2002. The remarkable personal attack is made by Mr O'Neill in a forthcoming book, according to excerpts from a television interview to be broadcast on Sunday.----------- "Bush savaged by former Treasury chief," Financial Times, by Alan Beattie, Jan 9, 2004 ]
... and then in Feb 2005 Fitzgerald tried to get the courts to agree to obtaining Shenon's phone records.
The court blocked him at least inititally and perhaps that required a route to the source through Miller.