President Bush was questioned for 70 minutes by federal investigators in the criminal case examining who within the Bush administration broke federal law by leaking the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Plame is the wife of one of President Bush’s chief critics on Iraq, Ambassador Joseph Wilson. During questioning, Bush was accompanied by Jim Sharp, the private attorney recently hired by Bush. The New York Times said it was extraordinary to have a sitting president questioned for so long in a criminal proceeding. Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove has been one of the officials cited as a possible source for the leak. Numerous other top officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales have also been questioned.