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<p>WASHINGTON - The White House yesterday hinted it would allow lie-detector tests for President Bush's staff in the investigation into the CIA leak.</p> <p>Probers began poring through records and phone logs to hunt for anything related to the leak that has sparked a political furor.</p>

In her recently published memoir, "Living History," Hillary Rodham Clinton describes how deeply opposed she was to the appointment of an independent counsel to look into the failed Whitewater land deal involving her and President Clinton. "The idea of hard-core Republican partisans rummaging through our lives, looking at every check we had written in 20 years, and harassing our friends on the flimsiest of excuses infuriated me," Senator Clinton wrote in one section. But she is now saying she supports the appointment of a special counsel to determine whether someone in the Bush administration illegally disclosed the identity of an...

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House officials began combing telephone logs and other records Wednesday while the FBI assembled senior agents for the politically delicate task of questioning senior members of President Bush's staff about the leak of a CIA undercover officer's identity. The FBI's first task will be to determine how many government officials were privy to the officer's identity and knew it was classified, a number that could be in the hundreds. Suddenly besieged by questions on a subject that had lain dormant for months, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that no investigators had yet sought...

<p>An insider who exposes a covert CIA employee's identity risks up to 10 years in federal prison and a $50,000 fine, but a prosecutor must clear many hurdles to make such a case.</p> <p>One hurdle is that the person identified must have served in a covert capacity abroad or in a post involving foreign counterintelligence at some point in the last five years under a cover intended to shield her identity, according to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.</p>

<p>The White House yesterday began combing through its computer and phone records for information that might shed light on whether staffers improperly disclosed the name of a CIA employee.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the journalist who published the name, columnist Robert Novak, accused Democrats of politicizing the issue. Undaunted, Democrats continued to pillory President Bush for refusing to call for a special prosecutor.</p>

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- White House Special Advisor Karl Rove is in need of an exorcist. Perhaps a witch doctor will suffice. Whatever choice is made, I advise that the president get a master of the occult over to Rove's White House office immediately, and before another day of CNN broadcasts alarm the nation. Anyone listening to CNN or reading the liberal press knows that something diabolical has happened to Rove. Thanks to columnist Robert Novak, a former American diplomat who goes by the swank name of Joseph C. Wilson IV and the extreme left-wing Nation magazine, Rove is being victimized...

<p>Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man accusing the White House of a vendetta against him and his wife, is an ex-diplomat turned Democratic partisan.</p> <p>President Bush, he wrote in an article in the far-left Nation magazine that was published before the Iraq war began, is not interested in democracy in the Middle East but "this new American imperialism."</p>

The Democrats have a long and sordid history of launching last-minute cheap shot 'October Surprises' right before elections. I'm hoping that we can use this thread to develop a comprehensive list of all of their 'October Surprises', so that we can not only confront them with it each time they try this garbage, but more importantly remind and educate the general public about how this is an unscrupulous cornerstone of Democrat election strategy. Most people have no idea how much of a pattern there is of this. Of course we have Arnold, and we remember the Bush DWI. Wasn't that...

A new ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll finds that just 47 percent of Americans believe the White House is fully cooperating with the alleged leak of a CIA officer's identity. (Khue Bui/AP Photo)   Serious Leak Needs Serious Look Poll: Disclosure of CIA Info Considered Serious, Special Counsel Warranted Analysis By Gary Langer Oct. 1— Eight in 10 Americans say the alleged White House leak of a CIA operative's identity is a serious matter, and nearly seven in 10 say it should be investigated by a special counsel, not by the administration's own Justice Department. The issue has prompted significant suspicion...

<p>Anti-Bush partisans are really piling on thick over the purported scandal involving the "outing," supposedly by White House officials, of Valerie Plame, who may or may not have been a covert CIA operative, and who is married to a critic of the administration named Joe Wilson. Josh Marshall blogged himself into such a frenzy yesterday that he almost matched Glenn Reynolds's output on a slow day. One random left-wing blogger sums up the tone of the attacks: "Conservatives have a long history in America of resorting to traitorous acts to further their own private agendas." We're half-expecting the bestseller lists to feature a book called "Leaks and the Leaking Leakers Who Leak Them."</p>

UNSCOM 3 December 1997 Major Sites Associated With Iraq's Past WMD Programs Biological sites: 1 - Salman Pak: Laboratory scale research on Anthrax, Botulinum toxin, Clostridium, perfringens (gas gangrene), mycotoxins, aflatoxins, and Ricin. Researchers at this site carried out toxicity evaluations of these agents and examined their growth characteristics and survivability. Located 40 km SE of Baghdad. 2- Al Hakum: This site was specifically designed and constructed as Iraq'ss main biological agent production facility. Prior to the Gulf War this facility produced thousands of lines of Anthrax and concentrated Botulinum toxin. Hundreds of litres of Clostridium perfringen were also...

<p>The first lady Wednesday weighed in on the Washington leak story, saying President Bush "wants the very highest ethics in the White House" and "certainly doesn't want to think there are any leaks out of the White House."</p> <p>CNN's Soledad O'Brien asked Laura Bush about the revelation of the classified identity of a CIA operative and the Justice Department's probe into it in an interview for CNN's "American Morning."</p>

<p>"Neo-conservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this administration, and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both." Those are the words of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who will certainly be a household name for weeks to come.</p> <p>Chances are very good that we will never know who from the White House leaked the information about Mr. Wilson and his wife to members of the press. For one thing, that's the nature of leak investigations. Journalists don't reveal their sources, and sources have a way of disappearing into the mahogany paneling in the halls of power here in Washington. Most of such investigations end inconclusively.</p>

The man pushing accusations that White House political guru Karl Rove outed his CIA agent wife said Tuesday that he had talked to her about the possibility that the scandal could lead to a movie deal. "We were just discussing today who would play her in the movie," former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson told the Washington Post. If the paper's description of Mrs. Wilson is accurate, perhaps she could even play herself. "She is 40, slim, blonde," said the Post, adding that "the photos in his office [reveal] she has the looks of a film star." Given...

War critic at center of CIA flap always vague on wife's job Wed Oct 1, 6:29 AM ET By Bill Nichols and John Diamond, USA TODAY On the guest list of the 1999 state dinner hosted by President Clinton for President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, no occupation was listed for Valerie Wilson, the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, Clinton's top White House Africa analyst from 1997 to 1998. Clinton administration colleagues of Joe Wilson say they always wondered what Valerie Wilson did. One former State Department official, who requested anonymity, says Wilson said his wife was an energy analyst....

Oct. 1— The former ambassador who accused the White House of leaking the identity of his CIA officer wife to the press says Washington reporters told him that senior White House adviser Karl Rove said his wife was "fair game." The ambassador, Joseph Wilson, said he plans to give the names of the reporters to the FBI, which is conducting a full-blown investigation of the possible leak. "I will be revealing the names of everybody who called me and cited White House sources or cited people specifically," Wilson said in an interview with Nightline's Ted Koppel. Revealing a CIA officer's...

Leak Uproar: Is it a political witch hunt? 1321 responses Yes 42% No 58% http://msnbc.com/news/778726.asp

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House pledged full cooperation Wednesday with a Justice Department probe into the leak of a CIA operative's name, and a spokesman did not rule out the possibility that Bush administration employees could face lie-detector tests.</p>

Joseph C. Wilson, the Clintonite who is at the bottom of the current flap regarding the leak of his wife’s name as a CIA "operative,” tried to contribute to more money to the Gore campaign than was legally allowed. Documents from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reviewed by NewsMax.com indicate Joseph C. Wilson of Washington, D.C., whose occupation is listed as "Strategic Adviser,” sent $2,000 to the Gore, 2000 Committee in March of 1999, with $1,000 returned to him the following month because he had exceeded the legal limit. This from a man who has been lecturing the Bush...

Wed September 10, 2003 02:16 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October. Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector. He alluded to this summer's finger-pointing between the Central Intelligence Agency and...