John Hannah Allegedly Focus of Plame Probe

Richard Sale, respected intelligence reporter for UPI, has given credibility to a story that had been rumored for several weeks . It is that the FBI investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame is increasingly focusing on two officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby and John Hannah. Sale assures me that the information is solid.

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Scooter Libby in the crosshairs

Ex-envoy won't back off of Bush
Wilson says his wife was smeared because of his Iraq stance

Any thought that public ridicule and the exposure of his wife as an undercover CIA agent might quiet former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in his criticism of the Bush administration has missed the mark by a mile.

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