White House Barraged by Questions on CIA Leak

By Don Gonyea

Published September 30, 2003 at 11:00 PM CDT

The White House fields an avalanche of questions about when President Bush first learned that administration officials had allegedly exposed a CIA operative married to a vocal critic of Bush's Iraq policy. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans dismiss Democratic calls for a special counsel to investigate the leak, now the subject of a Justice Department probe. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

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