Bush keeps Plame papers concealed
President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration’s leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity in 2003.
At the time, the administration was trying to undercut former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV’s criticism of Bush’s rationale for the Iraq war. Wilson and Plame are married.
The House Oversight Committee had subpoenaed Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey to turn over the documents.
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