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[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3152414.stm said:bbc news[/url]]
The US Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation into allegations that White House staff illegally blew the cover of a CIA agent.
Valerie Plame was named as a CIA agent by journalist Robert Novak after her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of exaggerating the case for war in Iraq.
It is alleged that two members of the White House staff leaked her name to Novak as an act of revenge.
is this likely to be a huge problem for the bush administration or just remain an internal disciplinary matter? the current labour government is having a very hard time after a slightly similar incident where an mod scientist spoke about his reservations about last years iraq wmd dossier and was later outed by the mod, apparently under recommendation of cabinet officials. the scientist later commited suicide and the hutton enquiry begun.