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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
From the Nelson Report, via Josh Marshall:

• If it's possible to imagine anything more damaging to DOD [than the Iran/Chalabi revelations], and perhaps also to White House staff, it is the CIA's conclusion that some information Chalabi turned over to Iran was available to only "a handful" of senior U.S. officials. That would be Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Cheney, and Cheney's consigleiri, Scooter Libby, our sources helpfully explain.
  -- perhaps not entirely by coincidence, the Vice President's office is already on extra orders of TUMS, as it awaits the promised Grand Jury indictments of those responsible for leaking the name of a secret CIA officer to newspaper columnist Bob Novak, allegedly to "punish" the agent's husband, Amb. Joe Wilson, for revealing that President Bush used faulty intelligence about Iraq and Niger in the State of the Union Address two years ago. From our own days as a police and court reporter, we can tell you that Grand Juries often grind exceeding slow, but that if they report, not much gets left out.

Meanwhile, the President hired outside counsel in the Plame affair.

What is the rule on preemptory pardons? Can someone be pardoned if they haven't been indicted yet If not, I'm happy with the grand jury taking its time.

I've noticed that the Plame affair and the Chalabi scandal have taken a back seat to the Scott Peterson trial on fox news. If W manages reelection, maybe Peterson will receive a pardon.