Diverd4777 wrote:

In article , helmsman
writes:

Subject: [ OT ] Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
From: helmsman
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:38:33 GMT

On 07 Jun 2004 02:12:45 GMT, (Chandler7600) wrote:


http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artma...cle_4629.shtml

Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
By Staff and Wire Reports
Jun 3, 2004, 05:28

Who cares? She worked a desk in the U.S.A.
She was not a secret agent, just an analyst.


http://philcarter.blogspot.com/2003_....html#10647798
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SNIP

Revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer appears to be in violation of
the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, codified as 50 U.S.C.,
Section 421 (a):
The citation for the federal law here is 50 U.S.C. 421, and was passed as the
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. It states:

Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that
identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying
such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified
information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert
agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such
covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined
under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

http://www.ospolitics.org/usa/archiv...the_valeri.php

A retired career ambassador has just publicly accused the President's chief
official political advisor of revealing the identity of a covert intelligence
operative:
an aggravated felony that carries a ten-year term in federal prison.
Yet no newspaper, newsmagazine, wire service article, or television or radio
network news broadcast has yet reported that charge.
SNIP
In addition to putting an end to Valerie Plame's operational usefulness, the
revelation of her identity poses a substantial, perhaps even mortal, threat
to whatever foreign officials or private citizens
might have been supplying her with information about their nations' attempts
to create WMD capacity.
It is quite likely that some of those people are now in dungeons having their
fingernails pulled out, or being subjected to whatever alternative form of
encouragement the local secret police like to use.

Heck, I heard some time ago that everyone knew she worked for the CIA, so it
certainly wasn't a secret.

As I recall.