Archive of stories pre April 2007 | The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, could face a court grilling before a criminal inquiry into the leaking of a CIA agent's name in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Mr Cheney may be called to give evidence at the criminal trial of his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, who has been accused of revealing the identity of Valerie Plame.
Mr Libby was charged last October with five counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements about the affair, after he insisted to the FBI and to a Washington inquiry that he had not leaked her name.
Critics of the US government claim that Ms Plame's identity was deliberately leaked to journalists to discredit the views of her husband, Joseph Wilson, a retired ambassador and high-ranking critic of the Iraq war.
In the lead-up to the war, the US government had cited intelligence claiming that Saddam Hussein had tried to obtain uranium ore from Niger as evidence of Iraq's nuclear programme.
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