[rubeng]

The part that worries me the most, and thing the DemocRATS having been hammering home over and over these past few days is this part of the law, which I have to admit never states that the agent has to be named, only identified. According to that weasel Cooper, Rove identified Plame as "Joe Wilson's wife". This prosecutor, who appears to me to be on a political witch hunt, may find that as damning enough. The law reads: "Whoever, as a result of having authorized access to classified information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." The way this law reads to me, it doesn't matter at all whether Roved cited Plame specifically by name.

[fhayek]

I understand that:

1. She had been 'outed' by Aldrich Ames years ago.
2. She had not been a covert agent for close to a decade.

[denydenydeny]

The way this law reads to me, it doesn't matter at all whether Roved cited Plame specifically by name.

But that whole question is moot, and the law does not apply because Plame was definitely not a covert agent, and had not been since 1994.