Reuters take: Woodward testifies in CIA leak probe

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6176351&cKey=1132165217000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward testified this week that a senior Bush administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame nearly a month before her identity was publicly disclosed, a sign prosecutors are exploring new leads in the leak investigation.

The disclosure of Woodward's sworn deposition on Monday comes more than two weeks after charges were brought against Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and after special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said the bulk of his investigation was concluded.

The development also raised questions about Woodward's past statements about Fitzgerald and his investigation. One of the two Post reporters who led the newspaper's coverage of the 1970s Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, Woodward has publicly dismissed the leak investigation as laughable and referred to Fitzgerald as "a junkyard dog."

On the eve of Libby's indictment, Woodward said he saw no evidence of criminal intent -- only to disclose publicly on Wednesday that he met with Libby on June 27, 2003, and that it was possible Plame was discussed. "I had no recollection," Woodward said.

Woodward said he was first contacted by Fitzgerald's office on November 3, one week after Libby's indictment.

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1. Rawstory says Woodward's WH source to be disclosed

that is what is their breaking news. I knew Fitz wasn't done with his investigation.

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2. I think Libby is singing like a canary n/t