Updated List of Rove Witnesses and Interviewees

[joemurphy]

Here's a new update of the Rove case's witnesses and interviewees
The update was prompted by a report in the LA Times that Glenn Kessler, a Washington Post reporter, was among those who testified before Fitzgerald’s grand jury.

The source for the Kessler report is here. Kessler’s testimony apparently occurred some time ago and thus is not big news. Kessler reportedly testified after he was given a specific waiver by Scooter Libby, Kessler’s apparent source.

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-leak25aug25,0,61238.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines>

This list is something I've put together from my Googling. If anyone has any additions or corrections, let me know. I'll post the list from time to time in the future as further information comes in.

Persons Reported to Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

Israel “Izzy” Hernandez – Former Bush/Rove Aide and now Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Susan Ralston- Rove Aide (and former Top-Aide to Jack Abramoff)
Bill Harlow – Former CIA spokesman
John McLaughlin- Deputy CIA Director
Friend of Wilson’s (Name Unrevealed) - Met with Novak in the street
Carl Ford, Jr. –Director of State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Alberto Gonzales – Former White House Counsel and now Attorney General
Karl Rove – Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Policy for the President
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby - Chief of Staff for the Vice-President
Colin Powell – Former Secretary of State
Karen Hughes – Senior White House Aide
Ari Fleischer – Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan – Current White House Press Secretary
Claire Buchan – Deputy White House Press Secretary
Adam Levine – Former White House Communications Aide
Mary Matalin – Former Advisor to the Vice President
Tim Russert – Host of “Meet the Press” MSNBC
Matthew Cooper – Time Magazine
Walter Pincus – Washington Post
Andrea Mitchell – Reporter MSNBC
Glenn Kessler – Washington Post

Persons Who Refuse to Say if They Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

Robert Novak – Reporter for the Chicago Tribune

Persons Subpoenaed to Testify before the Grand Jury but Refused to Testify:

Judith Miller – New York Times

Persons Interviewed by Patrick Fitzgerald (But Not under Oath)

George W. Bush – President of the United States
Richard Cheney – Vice-President of the United States

Persons Reportedly Interviewed by FBI and Who Also Testified before the Grand Jury:

Karl Rove - Bush's Former Senior Adviser and Present Chief of Staff
Scott McClellan – White House Press Secretary
Mary Matalin – Former Advisor to the Vice President
Adam Levine- Former White House Communications Aide
Ari Fleischer – Former White House Press Secretary
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Chief of Staff for the Vice-President
Glenn Kessler – Diplomatic Reporter for the Washington Post

Persons Reportedly Interviewed by the FBI but Not Known to Have Testified before the Grand Jury:

James Guckert a/k/a Jeff Gannon a/k/a "Bulldog" - Talon News
Dan Bartlett – White House Communications Director
Cathie Martin – Aide to the Vice-President.
George Tenet - Former CIA Director

Persons Figuring in the Valerie Plame Leak Investigation Not Known to Have Been Interviewed or to Have Testified:

Andrew Card – White House Chief of Staff
Condoleezza Rice – Secretary of State and Former NSC Director; Member of WHIQ
Stephen Hadley – Chief National Security Advisor, Former Deputy Director of NSC
Joseph Wilson – Former Ambassador to Sao Tomé and Gabon (His NYT op-ed piece started it all
Elliott Abrams – Former NSC Advisor under Bush I; Indicted for Role in Iran-Contra;
Plead Guilty and was Pardoned by Bush I; Presently Deputy NSC Advisor for Bush II
Michael Ledeen – Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute; Thought by some to be responsible for the forged Iraq-Niger uranium purchase documents
David Wurmser-Member of Pentagon Office of Special Projects
Richard Armitage- Deputy Secretary of State
John Hannah-Senior National Security Aide on Cheney’s Staff
Robert Joseph - National Security Aide (reportedly instrumental in getting the "sixteen words" into Bush's State of the Union Address)

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. C'mon Fitzy!

[Pithy Cherub]

2. John Bolton should be added to one of these groups.

Bolton apologists had to admit he had been contacted by the Grand Jury as part of his paperwork as the UN nominee. Karen Hughes(WHIG) had to admit too.

[joemurphy]

3. Bolton was interviewed by the State Department's

Inspector General as part of a joint investigation with the CIA into Iraq's attempts to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger. He wasn't
interviewed by the FBI or by Fitz's grand jury in connection with the Plame leak matter. Hence, I've left him off.

Hope springs eternal, however.

[Halliburton]

4. John Hannah was the first one to get into big trouble

From Thinkprogress:

<snip>
HANNAH A “MAJOR PLAYER” IN FITZGERALD PROBE: According to the UPI, “The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said. According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby were the two Cheney employees. ‘We believe that Hannah was the major player in this,’ one federal law enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president’s office were not returned. Hannah and Libby did not return calls.

FITZGERALD PRESSURED HANNAH TO NAME SUPERIORS: The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah ‘that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time,’ as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law enforcement official said.’”
<snip>

[wli]

5. um, they should all be doing time when this is done n/t