Mike Aviles

Mike Aviles is a journalist and contemporary historian who has been writing a history of the second Bush administration.

Speculation is growing in Washington that Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and President Bush’s top advisor Karl Rove could soon be indicted by a federal prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Rove and Libby are said to have outed Plame to cover up the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence information during the lead up to war with Iraq.

As speculation grows that Libby and Karl Rove could be indicted, we speak with investigative reporter Murray Waas on his new expose that Libby never told prosecutors that in June 2003 he spoke with New York Times reporter Judith Miller about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Iraq war.

Investigative Journalist Murray Waas is reporting in the National Journal that Libby lied to a federal grand jury. Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald only learned of the discussion after Miller announced last week that she had discovered a set of notes on the conversation-- regarding the Bush administration's manipulation of intelligence to take the nation to war with Iraq.