House panel subpoenas FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney

By PETE YOST – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee issued a subpoena Monday for FBI
reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney in the CIA leak investigation.
The subpoena to Attorney
General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee is the latest move by Congress to shed light on Cheney's
precise role in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity.
On Friday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is scheduled to testify to the House Judiciary Committee.
He
is expected to talk about White House higher-ups directing him to
publicly deny that Cheney's chief of staff and White House political
adviser Karl Rove played any role in leaking the CIA employment of
Plame, who is married to Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson.
Cheney's
chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and Rove were among the
leakers of the CIA identity of Wilson's wife. Both have since left the
White House.
In publicly released grand jury testimony, Libby
acknowledges having told the FBI early in the Plame probe that "it's
possible" he spoke to Cheney about whether to share information with
the press about Wilson's wife.
The House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has been
trying to get FBI interviews of Bush and Cheney since last year. Waxman
renewed the request June 3 and Mukasey says the department is
considering a response. Monday's subpoena also seeks other documents
related to the Plame probe, the committee said in announcing the action.
Libby was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.
Last July, Bush commuted Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence, sparing him from serving any prison time.