Colin Powell Testified in CIA Leak, Plame Investigation.

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-usa-plame.html?pagewanted=print&position=

WARSAW (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell has spoken to a grand jury probing whether Bush aides leaked the name of a CIA agent to retaliate against her husband, an Iraq war critic, the State Department said Sunday.

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Powell spoke to the grand jury on July 16 about the case of CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose name surfaced in a piece written by columnist Robert Novak after her husband raised questions in public about the intelligence used to justify the Iraq war.

Boucher declined specific comment on the testimony but he stressed Powell had not talked to Novak about Plame. He said the secretary of state was not a subject of the investigation.

Revealing such classified information is a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Connecting the leak to any of President Bush's senior aides would be an embarrassment to the president in an election year.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Let's hope they find out the truth

This is too serious to be left alone. People have to learn that you can't do this sort of thing.

[gulliver]

2. Bushes and dirty politics are like Clinton and sex.

They just can't resist.

Frankly I would rather see Bush ousted for his politics. The Plame case obviously looks bad for Bush. His crew leaked the name of a CIA agent for political revenge, plain and simple. If Clinton's people had done that, Republicans would have mobbed the White House carrying torches and rope. Even so, I think Bush should be thrown out for the mess he has made, not for Karl Rove's dirty tricks.

If Rove or Libby are frog marched out of the White House, Republicans will blame them for the landslide Bush loss in November. They will say the election was a mandate against Rove. Never mind that far right politics got us into an unnecessary, deadly quagmire in Iraq. Never mind that we have record deficits as far as the eye can see thanks to Bush's tax cuts...