"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Let's actually get some facts straight. If she is an analyst and not a
covert agent, no law was broken. The reporter who posted her name, said
it
was not the White House, but her husband who stated the fact.


I think *you* need to straighten your facts out...


Point 1

There is nothing to the argument that, since she was an analyst, she was not
covert. In fact, she was.

The statute includes three other elements necessary to obtain a conviction:
that the disclosure was intentional, the accused knew the person being
identified was a covert agent and the accused also knew that "the United
States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's
intelligence relationship to the United States."
The law says no person other than the one accused of leaking the information
can be prosecuted, a provision that would protect journalists who report
leaked classified information identifying a covert agent. But there is one
exception to that protection.

The measure says people who engage in a "pattern of activities" intended to
identify covert agents and who have "reason to believe that such activities
would impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the United
States" can be prosecuted.



Point 2

On CNN's "Crossfire" on Monday, Novak said he learned Plame's identity from
two senior Bush administration officials in the course of researching an
article about Wilson.


Point 3

Check your sources and hang up the bluff routine.