Article: Justice Department launches probe into CIA leak.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Ron Hutcheson, Shannon McCaffrey and Jonathan S. Landay

WASHINGTON _ The Justice Department on Tuesday announced a full-scale investigation to determine whether White House officials leaked the name of a CIA officer in an attempt to discredit and punish a leading critic of President Bush's Iraq policy.

Bush ordered his staff to cooperate, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales directed presidential aides to save documents and any other material that might help investigators. Justice Department officials held open the possibility that Attorney General John Ashcroft might appoint an independent special counsel to oversee the FBI investigation.

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