WSJ to Break tomorrow am - Memo Top Secret, Classified

[montanacowboy]

not for foreign eyes==================== whoooo hooo

can you say conspiracy and perjury?

[applegrove]

1. Let's guess. Some patsy in the office of Secretary of State - there to

keep tabs on Powell & Armitage for Cheney - leaks the info to Bandar or Chalabi who can then not be called to testify because of diplomatic immunity. They leak to Miller (like they have before). And Miller leaks to Rove & others. All to give a legit or "un-ivestigatable" leak of the info to the Rove team who then can use it against Wilson.

Anyone else want to guess?

We have no idea do we!!!

[Booster]

2. Wow, that's very good - now we need to know who, what, when

and where re: the super secret energy meetings Cheney held and if we get those answers, we'll have to add a wing on to the prison to house all these assholes.

[applegrove]

3. I didn't want to leave anyone out. Didn't want anyone to get lonely!

Oh - I need answers!!! So little in the way of facts. At least I can laugh at my impatience!!

[aquart]

4. Is that why Bandar quit his job and left the country?

[applegrove]

6. I was joshing!! I have no idea! I'm shooting birds with a shotgun like

wimps do when they want to feel manly. Who knows what will fall out of the sky. You don't even need to aim. I'm just amusing myself.

Please - don't take me serious!

[Innoma]

5. Er...egads, man...

That sounds, well ... plausible!

[applegrove]

8. Remember I'm moose hunting with napalm. I cannot possibly miss

on all counts.

[jobycom]

7. As I understand it, Rovbe would still be cooked.

Rove doesn't have to be the first person to leak the information to violate the law or violate his security clearance. If a reporter tells Rove, and Rove confirms it or passes it on, he has still passed on classified information. Just because someone else has doesn't mean he hasn't. Also, since the reporter would not have security clearance, and Rove would, Rove would still be the one confirming the information, since he would be the only one in that group sure that the information was true. In other words, what Cooper says Rove told him is a violation, no matter how Rove claims he learned the information.

In addition, Rove's security clearance forbids him to pass on any information which could possibly be classified, and requires him to check any such information before passing it on. Even inadvertently revealing classified information is a violation of his security clearance, anf grounds for it being revoked.

So even in your scanario (and a good one it is) Rove is guilty. As I understand it.