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To: wagglebee

Ben, you're an idiot.

First of all, revealing classified information may be a felony, but it is not treason.

Second, you've been caught up in this non-story... I've said it before, I'll say it again: Plame was not a covert agent.

Third, you're an idiot.


34 posted on 04/08/2006 8:29:56 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Fourth - Pearl Harbor sucked.


35 posted on 04/08/2006 8:30:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Under the current legal practice, the President has the authority to declassify information. If the President declassifies it, he is not breaking the law because the information is no longer classified. In order to be illegal, information which is leaked must be categorized as classified. If the President did declassify information in this case, though, it may been politically stupid, les to leak it but it is not treason unless it meets the Constitutional definition of Impeachment in Article III sec.3 of the US Cosntitution which reads:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Unless the President's actions reasonably can be said to amount to any of the above, then his actions cannot be accurately called treason under a strict Constitutional definition.


126 posted on 04/08/2006 10:13:04 PM PDT by old republic
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To: Lunatic Fringe
First of all, revealing classified information may be a felony, but it is not treason.

More importantly, isn't it up to the executive branch of the government to decide what is and what isn't classifed? And the last time I checked, the President of the United States is the head of the executive branch, and his decision to declassify something would be perfectly legal.

Mark

141 posted on 04/08/2006 11:01:39 PM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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