WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- Investigators looking into the alleged leak of a CIA operative's identity by Bush administration officials questioned Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler.
State Department reported Kessler was questioned Tuesday by the special prosecutor investigating the case, and his tape-recorded interview will be given to a grand jury investigating how CIA staffer Valerie Plame's name was disclosed to Post columnist Robert Novak.
Kessler said Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, urged him to cooperate with investigators and he told prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald Libby did not mention Plame or her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV during conversations on July 12 and July 18 of 2003.
Reporters from NBC and Time magazine have also been subpoenaed by the prosecutor.
