White House staff check records over CIA row

WHITE HOUSE staff began going back through records and phone logs yesterday in search of any information relevant to the criminal investigation into public disclosure of a CIA agent’s identity.

President George W. Bush’s spokesman, Scott McClellan, said he had no knowledge about anyone going to the Justice Department with information about the case, as Bush had urged. Similarly, he said he did not know of anyone hiring lawyers.

“At this point, all the Department of Justice has asked us to do is preserve any and all information that could be related,” he said.