Help re: previous post on the actual law covering "traitorgate"

[ET Awful]

A while back, someone posted an excerpt of the law that actually covers the disclosure of covert operatives and defines it as treason.

I haven't been able to find it in my search, does anyone have a link or can you provide the language in this thread?

THANKS!


Edit: fixed grammar.

[Mistress Quickly]

1. the Intelligence Identities Protection Act

The law imposes a 10-year, $50,000 fine for those who transgress. Here are the three elements that must be satisfied for a crime to have taken place:

1.The accused party must have made an intentional disclosure of the identity of the agent.

2.They must know that the person they identified was actually an undercover agent

3.The government (the CIA) must be taking measures to conceal this agent's relationship to the United States.


http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal22q/uscode50-421.htm

[ET Awful]

3. THANKS

Much appreciated, needed it for a post I'm working on for another forum where this topic has been left pretty much alone.

[Walt Starr]

2. I put it to you, the specifics of this case qualifies for it being an act

of treason.

Towhit - the perpetrator knowingly outed a CIA undercover operative who specialized in Weapons of Mass Destruction anti-0terrorism during a time of war against terrorism.

If that doesn't qualify as treason, the Rosenbergs are due an apology.

[dkamin]

4. Treason statute

Title 18, Part I, Chapter 115, Section 2381

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States

If we are in an actual war right now, as the GOP and media have repeatedly stated, and our enemies are terrorists and/or those who seek to acquire WMDs for the purposes of using them against the United States, I think there is a very strong case to be made that the intentional exposure of an undercover CIA operative, working against the acquisition of WMDs by hostiles, is treason.

I don't expect Ashcroft to make that argument, and I expect that the guilty party will likely be a) a patsy; and/or b) sentenced to a country club prison for 12-18 months. Welcome to the New World Order.