{"id":4060,"date":"2003-10-01T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T20:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:25:27","slug":"is-john-ashcroft-willing-to-ask-karl-rove-to-submit-to-a-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/01\/is-john-ashcroft-willing-to-ask-karl-rove-to-submit-to-a-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is . . . John Ashcroft Willing to Ask Karl Rove to Submit to a Polygraph?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>As reported by Wayne Washington of the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> in an article titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2003\/10\/01\/us_begins_criminal_probe_of_cia_leak\/\">&#8220;US Begins criminal probe of CIA leak,&#8221;<\/a> Senator Dick Durbin raised the question on the floor of the U.S. Senate in the context of the Justice Department investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame&#8217;s identity as a CIA employee: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, described how FBI agents, at the behest of the Bush administration, asked that he submit to a lie detector test to help them uncover who leaked classified information that had been provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee, of which Durbin is a member.<\/p><p>He argued that the Justice Department won&#8217;t be as aggressive in pursuing White House officials. &#8220;Is . . . John Ashcroft willing to ask Karl Rove to submit to a polygraph?&#8221; Durbin asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by Wayne Washington of the Boston Globe in an article titled, &#8220;US Begins criminal probe of CIA leak,&#8221; Senator Dick Durbin raised the question on the floor of the U.S. Senate in the context of the Justice Department investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame&#8217;s identity as a CIA employee: Speaking on the Senate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[216,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-4060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dick-durbin","8":"tag-leaks","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}