Updated Plamegate Witness List

[joemurphy]

Persons Reported to Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

Alberto Gonzales – Former White House Counsel and now Attorney General
Karl Rove – Chief of Staff for the President (4 Grand Jury Appearances)
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby -
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
Judith Miller – New York Times

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

Robert Novak – Columnist for the Chicago Sun Times

Interviewed by Patrick Fitzgerald (Not Under Oath)

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

Interviewed by FBI and 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

Interviewed by FBI or Fitzgerald but not known to have testified before the Grand Jury

Jeff Guckert a/k/a Jeff Gannon - Reporter for Talon News and Former Gay Callboy
Dan Bartlett – White House Communications Director
Cathie Martin – Aide to Vice-President Cheney .
Jennifer Millerwise – former Cheney spokesperson
Jim Wilkinson – Current NSC spokesperson
Condoleeza Rice – Secretary of State

[GetTheRightVote]

1. I only hope he gets all the liers and cheats behind bars.

:kick:

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Me too

I'm so anxious about this case.

[lovuian]

2. The Cheney helpers are a very interesting group!!!

I bet they will be testifying too!!!

[Sydnie]

3. Hadley is absent from that list - could that be who flipped and

could he have flipped long ago?

[never cry wolf]

4. Correction, Novakula is not a reporter for the Tribune

He is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. A murdoch owned rag. The trib is RW, but not that RW.

[joemurphy]

5. Good catch...I'll correct that. Thanks! n/t

[never cry wolf]

6. WOW, that was my 4,000th post

you're quite welcome and thanks for the list.

on edit: 4000 and still can't type, lol.

[joemurphy]

8. Congratulations on the 4,000! n/t

[Tinksrival]

23. Are you sure

about that?? My odds are on Suntimes. ;-)

edit to add:

http://www.suntimes.com/index/novak.html

[baby_bear]

7. Clinton was under oath - why not Bush/Cheney?

I am probably missing something here, but what is it?

Help me out here.

Is this a double standard or something else?

b_b

[Garbo 2004]

9. John Hannah should be in that list somewhere.

Published on Thursday, February 5, 2004 by UPI/Insight
Cheney's Staff Focus of Probe
by Richard Sale

Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.

According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were the two Cheney employees. "We believe that Hannah was the major player in this," one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president's office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.

The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah "that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time" as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0205-12.htm

[joemurphy]

10. Is Common Dreams a reliable source? I haven't seen

Hannah's name being mentioned as a grand jury witness or as an interviewee anytime before. Same with Hadley.

It's odd about that. But that's why I've left them off.

[Garbo 2004]

18. The source is United Press International. CommonDreams just reprinted the

UPI article.

Juan Cole had a column on Sale's article. http://www.juancole.com/2004/02/john-hannah-allegedly-focus-of-plame.html Juan Cole regards Sale as a credible reporter. Cole himself is no slouch.

[crispini]

29. Yes, John Hannah.

"‘We believe that Hannah was the major player in this,’ one federal law enforcement officer said."

http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal

[marbuc]

11. No Bolton? eom

[joemurphy]

14. Bolton was interviewed by the State Department's Inspector

General about another matter. It didn't involve Plame's outing as far as I know.

I've never seen any reports that stated Bolton was subponaed or interviewed by Fitz or the grand jury.

[Garbo 2004]

25. Bolton was interviewed by State's IG on how US came to rely on

fabricated reports that Iraq was trying to get materials from Niger to build nuclear weapons. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/politics/29bolton.html?ex=1129780800&en=e4ac42e4bd5ab4f6&ei=5070

NBC's David Shuster had reported that Bolton testified: "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." (July 21, 2005 Hardball transcript: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8666472/ )

But apparently State Dept subsequently denied in a briefing that Bolton was interviewed as part of the Fitzgerald investigation. After that Shuster said he went back to his source for clarification and said it was inaccurate to say Bolton had testified.

[marbuc]

32. I'm convinced Bolton has his smarmy little paws all over this thing

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was the cnnection between Cheney's office and the CIA.

[fooj]

12. Tweety (Matthews) was subpeoned. I'm almost certain I read that.

Thanks for the list. Awesome reference.

Peace.

[joemurphy]

13. Sorry. I haven't seen anything about Tweety being interviewed

or subpoenaed.

Tweety called Wilson after Novak's article ran and mentioned that Rove had told him that Wilson's wife was "fair game".

That's all I've ever heard about Tweety's involvement.

[fooj]

17. Cool. I thought I had read that somewhere. Thanks.

I feel like it's Christmas. I think all of this waiting is making me crazy...LOL!

Peace.

[Catrina]

20. Wasn't Tim Russert interviewed by the

prosecutor also? I seem to remember him getting a subpaeno although I don't know why.

Wastn't Norquist's assistant questioned also? I remember something about her always checking with Rove whenever there was something she needed to pass on to Norquist. I could be wrong, and I don't remember her name.

[joemurphy]

26. Russet testified before the grand jury.

You're thinking of Susan Ralston. And right, she testified. I've added her to the list.

[crispini]

28. Tweety is keeping his involvement VERY quiet.

You KNOW with that quote "Wilson's wife is fair game" from Rove, in Wilson's book that Tweety was at least interviewed, but nobody has said ANYTHING about it, and he goes and interviews a zillion people on his show and doesn't say ANYTHING about it.

I think Tweety has a bad case of Judy Miller-ism. For that matter, I think MSNBC has a bit of the same problem that the NYTimes does, it's just not as NOTICIABLE because Tweety isn't in jail.

[readmylips]

16. Rumsfelt should be called to testify under oath...

He signed the Secret clearance for Judy Miller bypassing DoD regulations.

[pisle]

22. Rumsfeld ....

I'm not hearing a lot of chatter about him regarding this whole investigation.

I don't fully understand the Rumsfeld area. A guy who supposedly tried to resign a few times, but was convinced into staying the course.

Rumsfeld has been an insider for how many years? 30? He's got some power and was right there in the center for all of this run-up to war.

His side of the investigation would seem to be highly sought after. So, why aren't we hearing of Rumsfeld questioning? Maybe he's the target? Or ...maybe Fitz has him nailed down and doesn't need his testimony?

Rumsfeld .....hmmmmmmmm

[philarq]

19. damn fine list

keep it up

better yet, do it as a printable pdf with check boxes that we can check off as the indictments are handed down...hehe

[Justice Is Comin]

21. Think you missed one who testified. Good list though.

Susan Ralston. A possible biggie.

http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal .... Best site I've seen for simple concise information, with photos.

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RALSTON IS ROVE’S RIGHT-HAND: ABC News reported on August 2, 2005 that Susan Ralston, Karl Rove’s long-time right-hand, testified before the grand jury. The National Journal reported, “If Karl Rove is Bush’s main man, then it’s Ralston who makes this White House go — because she’s indispensable to Rove.” According to Newsweek, Ralston was suggested to Rove by ethically-troubled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, for whom she previously served as a top aide.

RALSTON WAS ASKED WHY ROVE’S CALL WITH MATT COOPER NOT ENTERED INTO PHONE LOGS: “At one point, the aides were asked why Mr. Cooper’s call to Mr. Rove was not entered in Mr. Rove’s office telephone logs. There was no record of the call, the person who has been briefed said, because Mr. Cooper did not call Mr. Rove directly, but was transferred to his office from a White House switchboard. The aides have worked closely with Mr. Rove, screening his calls and coordinating his activities with other White House officials. Mr. Hernandez had been an aide to President Bush since his successful campaign for governor of Texas in 1994, and Ms. Ralston is known as one of Mr. Rove’s most trusted associates.”

FITZGERALD MAY WANT RALSTON’S TESTIMONY FOR SOMETHING BESIDES COOPER CONVERSATION: “But a person familiar with Cooper’s testimony said that Ralston’s name did not come up during the reporter’s grand jury appearance. That indicates that Fitzgerald may be interested in her testimony for other reasons.”

[joemurphy]

27. Thanks for the info on Ralston. I've added her to the list. n/t

[Carla in Ca]

24. My guess, George Tenet, isn't on the list

I thought he was the 'not in the WH' canary. I read an article that said he and the WH were at a boiling point and he is about to write a book.

[hang a left]

30. I read an article today that says several CIA officials have

testified.

[crispini]

31. Ooo. Link? Names?

[hang a left]

33. I will go try to find it. Be back.

[hang a left]

35. Sorry, it says interviewed "numerous officials from the CIA",

Not sure who or how many made it to the witness stand. I would imagine at least a few to establish backround. Also this article that I have linked to below talks about the fighting between Cheney and the CIA and that particular testimony from CIA officials would definately establish motive.

snip>

The special prosecutor has personally interviewed numerous officials from the CIA, White House and State Department. In the process, he and his investigative team have talked to a number of Cheney aides, including Mary Matalin, his former strategist; Catherine Martin, his former communications adviser; and Jennifer Millerwise, his former spokeswoman. In the case of Millerwise, she talked with the prosecutor more than two years ago but never appeared before the grand jury, according to a person familiar with her situation.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701888.html

[Supersedeas]

34. Jim Wilkinson...and Condi...interesting