• CIA briefer Craig Schmall, Peter Clement or Matt Barrett
• Senior CIA official Robert Grenier or John McLaughlin
• Former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow.

Also named as likely Government witnesses in the Libby pleading:

• David Addington
• Catherine Martin
• Vice President Dick Cheney

Other items of interest in the pleading:

• On Colin Powell, the defense is seeking:

Any notes from the September 2003 meeting in the Situation Room at which Colin Powell is reported to have said that (a) everyone knows that Mr. Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and that (b) it was Mr. Wilson's wife who suggested that the CIA send her husband on a mission to Niger.

• Marc Grossman is described as "a critical witness for the Government" and one who may not be a "disinterested witness.

This week, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as other media outlets, reported that Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State, told Bob Woodward of the Washington Post that Ms. Wilson worked for the CIA. There has been media speculation that Mr. Woodward's source and Mr. Novak's source are the same person. If the facts ultimately show that Mr. Armitage or someone else from the State Department was also Mr. Novak's primary source, then the State Department (and certainly not Mr. Libby) bears responsibility for the "leak" that led to the public disclosure of Ms. Wilson's CIA identity. Mr. Grossman worked closely with Mr