The three generals who were released Thursday were the most senior military officers ever to be called for questioning in a civilian court.
"He was called for questioning this morning with regard to his probable placement in detention," a spokeswoman for Xavière Simeoni, the judge overseeing the case, said Wednesday.
The ruling means that Mr. Chirac, who currently has judicial immunity as president, could be called for questioning if he loses the presidential election next month.
Mr. Geithner, who as president of the New York Fed from 2003 to 2008 was in charge of overseeing Citigroup, has not yet been interviewed by the panel's investigators but most likely will be called for questioning.
Mr. Smiley resigned last year as a regular commentator on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show" after receiving a hail of angry e-mail and phone calls for questioning Mr. Obama's commitment to black issues.
Earlier this year, the PBS and public radio host Tavis Smiley, one of the best known black radio and television voices, resigned as a regular commentator on Mr. Joyner's show after receiving a hail of angry e-mail messages and phone calls for questioning Mr. Obama's commitment to black issues.
She told me she was called for questioning at the public prosecutor's office and charged with being part of an illegal gathering.
David Cameron would attend the Leveson inquiry into press standards if summoned to give evidence, Downing Street said on Monday night, responding to reports that Lord Justice Leveson is "99.9%" certain to call him for questioning under oath about his dealings with senior media executives and Murdoch.
Melo, a 21-year-old engineering student in the city of Chengdu, said on his micro-blog that he was called in for questioning by the police about the provocative song.
The trial in July came as China's state security detained or called in for questioning more than 200 human rights lawyers and activists, in what analysts have called one of the biggest crackdowns on dissent in years.
