The Daily Background

My buddy Jason Leopold reports over at Truthout on the prospect of Congress looking into the Plame investigation:

Aides to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Congressman John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said they were engaged in discussions Tuesday about the possibility of holding immediate hearings and subpoenaing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to provide details of his nearly four-year-old investigation, and the evidence he obtained regarding the role Vice President Dick Cheney and other White House officials played in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. The aides requested anonymity because they were not yet permitted to discuss Congress’s course of action in the matter publicly.
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An aide to Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday that the senator is still determined to investigate the flawed intelligence that the administration used to convince Congress and the public to back the Iraq war. The Levin aide said the senator will likely seek testimony from Libby, Cheney, and senior members of the White House who played a role in the Plame leak, and that it “makes sense” to fold the issues surrounding the CIA leak case into the hearings about pre-war intelligence since they overlap with the leak case.

Leopold has a lot more including another Congressman who is ” seriously looking into what steps can be taken to continue this investigation and dig deeper into the vice president’s role.” Read on…

Meanwhile, Libby’s lawyers have requested a new trial.

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