The D.C. Circuit today required disclosure of some grand jury materials relating to the leak of Valerie Plame’s CIA identity. The court limited its order to information that the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby made public. In re Grand Jury Subpoena, Judith Miller, No. 04-3138 (D.C. Cir. June 29, 2007).
Blawgletter found the following passage most interesting:
[I]t is unclear to us why, as Dow Jones asserts, the Special Counsel’s knowledege that one individual [Richard Armitage] leaked Plame’s identity calls into question the validity of his continuing investigation into others who may have unlawfully leaked this same information . . . .
The court’s tentative view does not, in our opinion, bode well for Mr. Libby’s appeal.
Barry Barnett