Revised List of Plame Leak Witnesses and Interviewees

Here's a new update of the Rove case's witnesses and interviewees
The update was prompted by reports that John Bolton was not interviewed in connection with the Plame Leak investigation and did not testify before Fitzgerald's grand jury. A prior MSNBC report stating that John Bolton testified before the grand jury appears to have been erroneous. Owing to this fact Bolton's name has been deleted from the list

Bolton, apparently, WAS interviewed in connection with a joint State Department/CIA investigation into the Niger uranium hoax and, reportedly failed to advise the Senate of this fact in a questionnaire he submitted prior to his being vetted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee incidental to his UN nomination.


The following list is something I've put together from my Googling. If anyone has any other additions or corrections, let me know. I'll post the list from time to time in the future as further information comes in. Please provide a source for an information you provide.

Persons Reported to Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

Bill Harlow – Former CIA spokesman
John McLaughlin- Deputy CIA Director
Friend of Wilson’s (Name Unrevealed) - Met with Novak in the street
Carl Ford, Jr. –Director of State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Alberto Gonzales – Former White House Counsel and now Attorney General
Karl Rove – Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Policy for the President
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby - Chief of Staff for the Vice-President
Colin Powell – Former Secretary of State
Karen Hughes – Senior White House Aide
Ari Fleischer – Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan – Current White House Press Secretary
Claire Buchan – Deputy White House Press Secretary
Adam Levine – Former White House Communications Aide
Mary Matalin – Former Advisor to the Vice President
Tim Russert – Host of “Meet the Press” MSNBC
Matthew Cooper – Time Magazine
Walter Pincus – Washington Post
Andrea Mitchell – Reporter MSNBC

Persons Who Refuse to Say if They Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

Robert Novak – Reporter for the Chicago Tribune

Persons Subpoenaed to Testify before the Grand Jury but Refused to Testify:

Judith Miller – New York Times

Persons Interviewed by Patrick Fitzgerald (But Not under Oath)

George W. Bush – President of the United States
Richard Cheney – Vice-President of the United States

Persons Reportedly Interviewed by FBI and Who Also Testified before the Grand Jury:

Karl Rove - Bush's Former Senior Adviser and Present Chief of Staff
Scott McClellan – White House Press Secretary
Mary Matalin – Former Advisor to the Vice President
Adam Levine- Former White House Communications Aide
Ari Fleischer – Former White House Press Secretary
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Chief of Staff for the Vice-President
Glenn Kessler – Diplomatic Reporter for the Washington Post

Persons Reportedly Interviewed by the FBI but Not Known to Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

James Guckert a/k/a Jeff Gannon a/k/a "Bulldog" - Talon News
Dan Bartlett – White House Communications Director
Cathie Martin – Aide to the Vice-President.
George Tenet - Former CIA Director

Persons Figuring in the Valerie Plame Leak Investigation Not Known to Have Been Interviewed or to Have Testified:

John Bolton - Former Assistant Secretary of State and UN Ambassador nominee
Andrew Card – White House Chief of Staff
Condoleezza Rice – Secretary of State and Former NSC Director; Member of WHIG
Stephen Hadley – Chief National Security Advisor, Former Deputy Director of NSC
Joseph Wilson – Former Ambassador to Sao Tomé and Gabon (His NYT op-ed piece started it all
Elliott Abrams – Former NSC Advisor under Bush I; Indicted for Role in Iran-Contra; Plead Guilty and was Pardoned by Bush I; Presently Deputy NSC Advisor for Bush II
Michael Ledeen – Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute; Thought by some to be responsible for the forged Iraq-Niger uranium purchase documents
David Wurmser-Member of Pentagon Office of Special Projects
Richard Armitage- Deputy Secretary of State
John Hannah-Senior National Security Aide on Cheney’s Staff

He was questioned by the State Department Inspector General in connection with a joint State Department/CIA investigation of the Iraqi Niger uranium purchase hoax.

Report on Hardball:

DAVID SHUSTER, NBC CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A witness who testified at the grand jury and lawyers for other witnesses say the memo was written in July of 2003, identified Valerie Wilson, also known as Valerie Plame, as a CIA officer, and cited her in a paragraph marked S for sensitive.

According to lawyers, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and undersecretaries, including John Bolton, gave testimony about this memo. And a lawyer for one State Department official says his client testified that, as President Bush was flying to Africa on Air Force One two years ago, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer could be seen reading the document on board.

<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8666472 />



MSNBC reports to TWN that its source on Bolton being interviewed by the Valerie Plame Wilson grand jury "is unimpeachable."

MSNBC is standing "firmly" by its story -- and is shirking off the fact that other networks and major news organizations have been unable to confirm what MSNBC feels is a solid fact.

CNN has not yet responded to TWN on the White House source who allegedly stated that the Bolton report "was erroneous."

There are now rumblings, given what has been reported in the media, that various Senators may request the State Department to clarify whether or not Mr. Bolton met with the grand jury and/or its investigators. If he did so, they may ask when this took place.

This disclosure is a requirement of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which while Bolton's nomination has passed through the Committee without support, is still tasked with maintaing "the record" on John Bolton so as to inform the whole Senate.

<http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000802.html >

TPM/Josh Marshall report:

"Apparently, according to the AP, the State Department is confirming Sen. Biden's claim that John Bolton failed to tell senators that he was interviewed in the joint State/CIA IG probe into the US government's use of the forged Niger papers.

Late Update: I've gotten a lot of emails about this. So I wanted to clear up an seemingly widespread confusion. In questioning today, the State Department has apparently backed up Bolton's claim that he did not testify before Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal investigation. The reference above is to the joint State Department-CIA IG investigation from 2003. These are totally different things, though they are both related to the same underlying issue -- the Niger forgeries.

Isn't it possible that he was interviewed and also testified? I don't know really. I would find it hard to believe that he isn't part of Fitzgerald's probe. I am not second guessing your work. You have done a fine job. I just don't think it is beyond the State Department to lie.

:hi:

his prior report that Bolton testified before Fitz's grand jury. He said that apparently he didn't. He says the matter is continuing to be investigated.

No other sources have reported that Bolton testified other than MSNBC.

I haven't seen it anywhere but I'd bet fifty bucks that Tweety's been called to testify. And I bet there are more out there whom we don't know about.....

if Tweety's been interviewed or has testified. It's logical that he's been at least talked to, but I haven't seen anything on it.

Tweety's probably keeping mum so he'll look less hypocritical when he claims Rove and Libby were just to political operatives doing damage control.

why is it that shrub and dickless didn't have to testify under oath??????

on edit: it's the same as the 9/11 commission.....

in the "spirit of cooperation" that has always pervaded the White House.

He clarifies his previous report.

Bolton-the yellowcake liar.

I usually don't watch the turncoat anymore.

This has been bugging me lately. Could Judith Miller's source be James Woolsey? Would he have known Valerie Plame when he was the CIA Director? During the Iraq War run up Woolsey was feeding INC guys directly to the DIA, bypassing the CIA and State, and running around publicly saying that the CIA didn't know what it was talking about because he dislikes the CIA (and everyone there disliked him). Woolsey is a neocon, and also good friends with Judy Miller - in fact, he wrote a preface to one of her WMD books. Woolsey would certainly know who Wilson was ....plus as CIA Director, Plame was one of his employees. Supposedly Millers source told her about Wilson and his wife, the CIA agent. Woolsey would know both.

just the other day in an interview. Are you sure about him?

Good work!

If you have one, let me know and I'll amend.

This man's name keeps popping up also.

outdated bio:
http://www.nipp.org/bjoseph.php

somehow getting into Bush's State of the Union address. I'm a little fuzzy on this. Clue me in if you can. How's he connected?

Kind of a shadowy figure in my opinion. I'm trying to find something I read about him and Judy Miller.

the Wikipedia and dKosopedia.