At least 5 people (Cheney, Rove, Libby, Armitage, McClellan), and possibly Bush himself, were involved in blowing the cover of a CIA agent. While her actual status has been argued, her testimony yesterday, as well as the Director of the CIA's confirmation of her status, leave no doubt that Plame was a covert agent who had undertaken overseas assignments during the past 5 years. While the loosely and poorly written law that Fitzgerald was tasked to use in his investigation could not, in his opinion, support indictments, it is clear that the leaking by administration officials resulted in the ending of a covert agent's career and the endangering of networks and contacts she had developed and worked in for 20 years. Clearly the security of the US was damaged by these acts. While the "identities" law didn't really apply, do laws re: treason come into play?
2007-03-17
11:57:51
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