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That's nearly a month before her identity was disclosed by
Robert Novak.
Bob Woodward told special prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald on Monday that a senior administration official casually told him about
Valerie Plame and her position at the CIA, and that he didn't believe the information to be classified or sensitive. Woodward says he passed the information along to Post reporter
Walter Pincus, but that's news to the veteran newsman.
"Are you kidding?" says Pincus. "I certainly would have remembered that."
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Scooter Libby's lawyers plan to seek testimony from journalists beyond those cited in the indictment and will probably challenge government agreements limiting their grand jury testimony.
(New York Times)
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"Perhaps Woodward can re-write the rules of journalism once again" (CBS)
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