http://markarkleiman.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_markarkleiman_archive.html#106508070247849959

"Now this White House we-had-no-idea line may be about to fall apart. The Justice Department will be collecting all records of White House knowledge of Wilson and his trip starting in February 2002--a year before the State of the Union. (Presumably the counsel's office wouldn't list this very early date unless instructed by Justice.) Documents elucidating whatever the White House knew about the unreliability of the uranium claim are about to leave the West Wing. So now the issue returns to the very questions that prompted the White House smear on Wilson (and his wife) in the first place: When did the White House know about the shakiness of the claim that Iraq was seeking Nigerien uranium? Just as importantly, who knew it?

It's obviously unclear whether any of these West Wing e-mails, telephone conversations, notes, memos, etc., dealing with Wilson's Niger trip will be made public at the investigation's close. But reporters should be pressing DoJ to learn as much about them as possible. In the meantime, we suppose we'll have to rely on, well, leaks."