June 3, 2004

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  Bush consults lawyer in CIA leak case

  
  

  Wednesday, June 2, 2004

  
  

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday.

  
  

  A federal grand jury in Washington is investigating who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the news media. Plame's name first surfaced last July in a column written by commentator Robert Novak, who said his information came from administration sources.

  
  

  Wilson has said he believes his wife's name was leaked because of his criticism of Bush administration claims that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium from Niger, which Wilson investigated for the CIA.

  
  

   

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