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...weapons of mass destruction in an undercover capacity. Novak tells Newsday the sources came to him with the scoop. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me." On Tenet's orders, the CIA is already preparing an initial crime report on the Plame leak for the Justice Department...
...submits a detailed report to the Justice Department, charging that the leak broke the rarely used 1982 law against knowingly identifying undercover officers. On Sept. 26, Justice's counterespionage chief John Dion decides that the case merits a criminal investigation, and MSNBC.com reports an investigation has begun...
Justice Department officials have long complained that leak probes, as one put it, are a "fool's errand." The CIA sends the department about 50 requests for probes a year, of which 20 to 25 result in investigations. Almost all of these are closed without a suspect being named, much less a prosecution being sought. Since the results tend to be inconclusive, FBI and Justice Department officials often deride the exercise as a distraction from more vital antiterrorism and counterintelligence work. Some FBI agents say they resent investigating and intimidating other government employees. Former Attorney General Janet Reno summed...
...have no idea whether we'll find out who the leaker is." George W. Bush, U.S. President, after the White House staff was asked to hand over documents related to the leak of a CIA agent's name...