The C.I.A. gave the Justice Department its response several weeks ago, a government official said. Mr. Ashcroft decided during the past several days to move ahead with a preliminary inquiry, and the Justice Department notified the F.B.I. late today that the bureau would lead the investigation. "We'll start with the C.I.A.," said an F.B.I. official. "They're the ones that held the information, so we'll go from there to find out who had access to it."
There are a few ways Rove might have planned to exact his revenge. He could have made calls himself, to high profile reporters, or ordered staffers and political intermediaries to contact journalists with the authorization that they were speaking for “senior White House officials.†Not surprisingly, “senior White House official†is Rove’s nickname among many reporters because Rove asks that the description be used virtually every time he talks to a reporter.
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