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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.

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John Cairns wrote:
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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.


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.

This story is not being ignored by the mainstream media. So you even
have that fact wrong. But there are very few *facts* available for the
media to report. One fact that you still cannot prove is that a even a
misdemeanor, let alone a "serious national security crime" has been
committed.

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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.

http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/sc.../20030926.html
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