DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2002�
OFFICIALS WITH TWO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TELL TIME THAT THEIR SPY CATCHERS ARE CHECKING WHETHER VALERIE PLAME HAD WORKED ON THEIR SOIL
Sun Oct 19 2003 10:06:24 ET
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FBI Has Interviewed Over Two Dozen Officials, Including White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan and Bush Political Adviser Karl Rove as well as other West Wing Aides, Government Sources tell TIME
New York � Officials with two foreign governments tell TIME that their spy catchers are quietly checking on whether Plame had worked on their soil and, if so, what she had done there. Security agencies all over the world are now quietly running Plame�s name through their data banks, immigration records and computer hard drives as the White House leak scandal continues to percolate, TIME�s Michael Duffy and Tim Burger report in this week�s issue of TIME (on newsstands Monday, Oct. 20th).
The FBI has interviewed more than two dozen officials in several Washington offices, including White House press secretary Scott McClellan and Bush political adviser Karl Rove as well as other West Wing aides, Government sources tell TIME. The FBI has obtained desk diaries and phone records and is examining the network server that handles White House e-mail. So far, the initial face-to-face interviews, which are typically not done under oath, have been somewhat informal. In a sign of high-level interest in the leak case, several of the interviews were conducted by veteran G-man John Eckenrode, the lead FBI official on the investigation. Agents asked interviewees to keep mum about their chats so as not to disclose the government�s strategy. Both McClellan and Rove declined to comment on the probe, TIME reports.
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