On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:22:16 -0700, Curtis CCR wrote:


A host of people alledgedly knew she worked for the CIA. It has been
reported that it was common knowledge in D.C. "cocktail circuit" that
Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Lot's of people knew PRIOR to the White
House's alledged leak. But nobody talked much about it because it wasn't
important. This goes to another element of the definition of covert agent
- the government needs to be taking step to keep her identity secret.

You seem to be concentrating on the Intelligence Identities Protection
Act. However, the prosecutor could be using the much broader Espionage
Act, similar to Reagan's use of it against Samuel Morison.

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