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...FBI investigators looking into the criminal leak of a CIA agent?s identity have asked Bush Administration officials including senior political adviser Karl Rove to release reporters from any confidentiality agreements regarding conversations about the agent. If signed, the single-page requests made over the last week would give investigators new ammunition for questioning reporters who have so far, according to those familiar with the case, not disclosed the names of administration officials who divulged that Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador Joe Wilson, worked...
...from the start that such a request might be made. Along with the recusal this week of Attorney General John Ashcroft, this suggests that investigators are ready to enter the next stage of the probe. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been named special prosecutor to oversee the inquiry. The FBI has already extensively re-interviewed some White House officials using emails and phone logs from their search to press for the identity of the leaker. ?They are taking this very seriously,? says one close to the case...
...Black Panther Tour, which recounts for visitors how the Panthers, who warred with the FBI and local police in the 1970s, also contributed to the social and political life of the city...
...also playing the odds. Franklin County police closed a four-mile stretch of the highway Saturday night to take measurements of the area, seeing how long it takes to drive from one point to another. The ATF assisted with laser sights. So far, police have made no arrests. An FBI profiler is working 14-hour days trying to pin down a suspect or suspects; police brought in the agent whose psychological sketch helped capture Thomas Lee Dillon, who pleaded guilty a decade ago to five sniper killings in southeastern Ohio. Franklin County's civilians have their own theories about...
...Pentagon relented just before a filing deadline in a Supreme Court challenge to Hamdi's detention. Justice has also pushed to have the detainees in Guantanamo charged and given lawyers more quickly. Another source of friction, a former Justice official tells TIME, is the Pentagon's refusal to let FBI agents question two of the three "enemy combatants" being held in the continental...