If and when Congress launches its own investigation into these claims, you can be sure that subpoenas will go to those who participated in the White House Iraq Group.

If and when Congress launches its own investigation into these claims, you can be sure that subpoenas will go to those who participated in the White House Iraq Group. WHIG, as it is known, was formed by White House Chief of Staff Andy Card in August 2001 to help "educat[e] the public" about Iraq's threat as The Washington Post's Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus reported in an exhaustive article this summer. The members of this group included communications aides Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, and James R. Wilkinson; legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio; National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley; plus I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. Another group of aides who might wish to start shopping for attorneys includes the team of analysts who reported to WHIG. These folks--Will Tobey and Susan Cook, working under the NSC's senior director for counterproliferation, Robert Joseph--were asked to come up with examples and language that would illustrate the threat posed by Iraq more vividly than did the National Intelligence Estimate. An unpublished final draft of a white paper they produced includes what the Post describes as some of the first known instances of dubious statements that later ande it into public speeches by President Bush and other senior administration officials, including Bush's claim that Iraq sought so-called "yellowcake" uranium from Africa. One reason the paper was never published: Rice and Joseph both felt it "was not strong enough," according to Wilkinson.