OLAF WHO?:

Leak Probe Appears To Be in Active Phase (Susan Schmidt and Mike Allen, June 6, 2004, Washington Post)

Disclosure of a covert officer's name is a criminal act if it is done intentionally by someone authorized to have the information.

Lawyers representing witnesses in the case said the latest flurry of witness interview requests could signal that prosecutors are about to bring the investigation to a close. Several lawyers said they expect Fitzgerald would want to talk to Bush and Cheney no matter how his investigation comes out in the end.

"It was inevitable he would talk to both of them," one lawyer said. He, like other lawyers in the case, asked not to be quoted by name.

The pro forma quality of the endgame here may welkl indicate that the whole kerfuffle will end in the fashion that was always most likely, with a finding that no law was broken.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 6, 2004 11:47 AM