It's all about Being Covert

5 August 2005 - gk - reactions

More on Who's Who improglio: via TPM, comes a photo of Ambassador Wilson's entry, which has the as part of the entry, m. Valerie Elise Plame, Apr. 3, 1998.

Of course Wizbang et al are crowing, 'Valerie Plame' has been associated publicly with Joe Wilson since the Clinton era - nice secret... revealing hackery at its finest.

Which is pretty funny because nowhere in the entry does it state:

m. Valerie Elise Plame, Apr. 3, 1998. Covert Central Intelligence Agency Agent.

That is the reason outing Plame - a covert agent - for political retribution is a crime, or at least deeply, deeply immoral and unethical.

Mr. Rove, Mr. Novak, please meet the Espianage Act of 1916:

18 USC I 37 § 793 (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,

(1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
(2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

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Comments

Liberal Rage is so 2004!!!

Posted by: Cap'n Complacent at August 5, 2005 04:23 PM

And ironic displacement is so 1999.

Posted by: plemeljr at August 5, 2005 05:43 PM