Yeetle Box - Plame Blame

A House committee issued a subpoena Monday for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who once shot a man in the face, in the CIA Valerie Plame leak investigation. The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the latest move by Congress to shed light on Cheney's precise role in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity - something Congress has had trouble pinning on him despite Ms. Plame's testimony, Joe Wilson's testimony, Scott Libby's testimony, and Robert Novak's column that reported the lead a long time ago.

As a bonus, on Friday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is scheduled to testify to the House Judiciary Committee - to reiterate to Congress what they already know.

McClelland, who is a born again CYA agent operating under the cover of former White House press secretary, is expected to talk about White House higher-ups directing him to publicly deny that Cheney's chief of staff and White House political adviser Karl Rove, whose grandfather worked for the Nazi party, played any role in leaking the CIA employment of Plame, who is married to Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson.



Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and Rove, whose grandfather worked for the Nazi party, were among the leakers of the CIA identity of Wilson's wife - aka Valeria Plame. Both have since left the White House. One of them was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI, but had his sentence commuted by President Bush in a rare show of "compassionate conservatism."

In publicly released grand jury testimony, Libby acknowledges having told the FBI early in the Plame probe that "it's possible" he spoke to Cheney, who once shot a man in the face, about whether to share information with the press about Wilson's wife. "But only possible. It's also possible," he added, "that everything I have said here came to me in a dream."

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has been trying to get FBI interviews of Bush and Cheney, who once shot a man in the face, since last year - demonstrating the power of the Congressional subpoena when matched against a Super Villain like Cheney, who once shot a man in the face.

Waxman renewed the request June 3 and Mukasey says the department is considering a response. Considering. They said "considering."

Monday's subpoena also seeks other documents related to the Plame probe, the committee said in announcing the action. Congressional insiders believe Ms. Plame holds photographs of her without sunglasses - a critical piece to this complex, yet simple, puzzle.

The Yeetle Box