The Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-than-Nixonian Tactic:

[Sperk]

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030815.html

On July 14, in his syndicated column, Chicago Sun-Times journalist Robert Novak reported that Valerie Plame Wilson - the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, and mother of three-year-old twins - was a covert CIA agent. (She had been known to her friends as an "energy analyst at a private firm.")

Why was Novak able to learn this highly secret information? It turns out that he didn't have to dig for it. Rather, he has said, the "two senior Administration officials" he had cited as sources sought him out, eager to let him know. And in journalism, that phrase is a term of art reserved for a vice president, cabinet officers, and top White House officials.

On July 17, Time magazine published the same story, attributing it to "government officials." And on July 22, Newsday's Washington Bureau confirmed "that Valerie Plame ... works at the agency on weapons of mass destruction issues in an undercover capacity." More specifically, according to a "senior intelligence official," Newsday reported, she worked in the "Directorate of Operations undercover officer."

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What's findlaw? And why the hell isn't this on the front page of all the major papers? Damn that "liberal" media!!

[Sperk]

1. DAMN, Dudly DUright beat me too it!

:-)

[Dudley_DUright]

2. By one minute!

I thought I had accidentally double posted at first. I guess great minds post alike. :-)

[Pallas180]

3. It has been on the news and cables for a month. An investigation

going on by Jay Rockefeller , I think.

Findlaw is a legal research site used by lawyers and other
legal professionals.

I would suppose it's on their site because it is a question
of who could legally be prosecuted for violating the secrecy
act and revealing an undercover operative.

It's the lawyers way of letting other lawyers around the country
know how this administration is subverting the law and Constitution.

Actually it's interesting that Findlaw would be spreading the word.

[otohara]

4. Dupe

continue here please:
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