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Jun 3, 2008 11:06 am US/Central

Waxman Wants FBI Documents About CIA Leak Probe

WASHINGTON (AP) ― A House committee chairman is seeking more documents from the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's name.

California Democrat Henry Waxman says Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff made a significant disclosure to the FBI that warrants further congressional follow-up.

Waxman said Tuesday that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told the FBI that it's possible he was instructed by Cheney to disseminate information to the press about Valerie Plame, the CIA operative who is the wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Plame's CIA identity was leaked to the news media by several top Bush administration officials in 2003, including Libby and former top White House political adviser Karl Rove.

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