The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity and has asked the White House to preserve all documents that might relevant to the probe, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday.

I'm sure we can rest assured that Mr. Ashcroft will pursue this with the same zeal as he is using The PATRIOT Act.

The best coverage of this story is coming from Joshua Marshall. No, he's not in my blog links. After he got all weird and "oh my God what if Iraq does have WMD we better go to war!" I took him off.