"Curtis CCR" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:52:11 -0700, Curtis CCR wrote:


Dirty politics to disclose her identity? Yes. A crime? Maybe not.


While you may be right, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act is
quite narrow in scope, but consider this. If there was no crime
committed, why is a reporter going to jail?

Good question. Bottom line is that she is going to jail because she
refused to comply with an order to talk. I am not sure that she should
have been ordered to do so. But contempt of court *is* a crime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...2305-2005Jan11

Thank you for the link. There are not very many articles out there
asking these questions.

And what about Plame's husband? Jeeezzz.. He is worried about his
wife's career?

She was a NOC agent, she doesn't have a "career" with the CIA. Do a little
research.

Why has been on every mountaintop he can find for the
last year yelling, "These dirty *******s told everyone that my wife is
a CIA agent? Did you hear me?!?! I said these guys are telling people
that my wife is a CIA agent!!!"

Considering the fact that the people that might most be interested in her
agent status ALREADY knew, her husband publicizing the fact that someone in
the current administration revealed her identity as an agent doesn't make
ANY difference. The fact that this very serious national security crime has
been almost ignored by the mainstream media is rather troubling, I would
venture the guess that this would be Wilson's primary motivation for
publicizing it.

John Cairns