The legal and political stakes are of the highest order, but the investigation into the disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity is also just one skirmish in the continuing battle over the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305B.shtml

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Leak Case Renews Questions on War's Rationale

By DAVID E. SANGER
Source: NY Times
Submitted by editor on October 23, 2005 - 7:23pm.

There are still lots of real secrets in Washington. But the most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way - even while its spokesman reflexively utter the caution, "We don't talk about intelligence," or, "Sorry, that's classified" - that it must reveal a pretty steady stream of secrets all the time.

That is one reason journalists and some government officials are so wary of what might happen next in the C.I.A. leak case, which could conclude with indictments within a week. What began as a narrow case on a specific leak, many fear, has morphed into a broader threat to the way business is done here, a system that often benefits both sides. [...] Read it all at http://tinyurl.com/9jd26 For now the NY Times URL for the Sanger article also works.


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