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Prosecutor Fitzgerald sees new grand jury proceedings

3:49 PM Fri, Nov 18, 2005 |
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Reuters reports,

In a sign he may seek new or revised charges in the CIA leak case, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said on Friday his investigation would be going back before a grand jury.

It was the first time Fitzgerald said he would be presenting information to a grand jury since the indictment three weeks ago against Vice President Dick Cheney aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby....

"The investigation will involve proceedings before a different grand jury than the grand jury which returned the indictment" against Libby, Fitzgerald said in a motion he filed providing for public disclosure of some evidence in the Libby case.

The story jumps, separating these two sentences:

A lawyer in the case said Woodward's source had not previously testified before a grand jury. Continued ...

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman would not answer directly whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was Woodward's source.

In Fitzgerald's filing, he "backed off seeking a blanket order to keep all documents in the case secret and agreed to focus more narrowly on grand jury transcripts and documents containing sensitive private personal information."

Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press had challenged the blanket order.

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