Mr. Wilson writes that Mr. Libby "evidently seized opportunities to rail openly against me" and was an "ardent neoconservative" who had the "motive and means" to conduct a covert inquiry to identify Mr. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame.
Investigation The investigation into whether a Pentagon analyst passed classified information to Israel began with a longstanding covert national security inquiry into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, people who have been briefed on the matter said.
The Met said in a statement that, before Wednesday's allegations, it had set up an inquiry into covert work between 1968 and 2008.
Now the Scottish government is under pressure to set up its own inquiry into the covert operations.
Undercover police officers who disclose crucial evidence to a public inquiry into the covert infiltration of political groups could be given immunity from prosecution.
Opening the inquiry in July, Pitchford indicated that undercover police officers who disclose crucial evidence to a public inquiry into the covert infiltration of political groups could be given immunity from prosecution.
Creedon told the Commons home affairs committee that at some point this year his inquiry found documents recording "covert deployments which reported intelligence which relate" to the Lawrence family and that Hogan-Howe was made aware of this.
