John "Nuisance" Kerry?
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Posted on 07/14/2005 11:55:22 AM PDT by CarlEOlsoniii
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed for legislation to deny security clearances to officials who disclose the identify of an undercover agent, an action that clearly responds to the controversy surrounding top White House aide Karl Rove (search).
Sens. Harry Reid or Nevada, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Joe Biden of Delaware and Dick Durbin of Illinois were offering the amendment as an add-on to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill now being debated in the Senate.
"No federal employee who discloses, or has disclosed, classified information, including the identity of a covert agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, to a person not authorized to receive such information shall be permitted to hold a security clearance for access to such information," the amendment language reads.
The effort is one of many taken by Democrats in light of confirmation that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove discussed the identity of Valerie Plame (search) with a reporter for Time magazine in July 2003.
Despite the brouhaha, Bush gave his deputy chief of staff a visual show of support Thursday morning when the two departed the White House for Indiana. The president emerged from the Oval Office side by side with Rove, whereas Rove usually shuffles behind him. The two chatted as they walked towards Marine One together and both appeared very jovial.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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Hope you don't mind if I post that list of 10 over on my blog.
ARTICLE I. SEC 9.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
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§ 421. Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents, informants, and sources
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(a) Disclosure of information by persons having or having had access to classified information that identifies covert agent Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, 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 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(b) Disclosure of information by persons who learn identity of covert agents as result of having access to classified information Whoever, as a result of having authorized access to classified information, learns the identify 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 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(c) Disclosure of information by persons in course of pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents Whoever, in the course of a pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents and with reason to believe that such activities would impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the United States, discloses any information that identifies an individual as a covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such individual and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual’s classified intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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Does this law say it's okay to stuff your socks and shorts with secret info?
David Gregory was subdued tonight as he sat in for Matthews. Looked like he had an ice water enema. Very subdued. I wonder if the bulb is starting to slowly luminesce or he was told to hold it down.
Do the dems simply say so and it makes it so? All of this is a hoax being perpetrated at the taxpayers expense in an attempt to weaken the President.
Is that a subliminal reference to Al Gore's Photoshopped magazine cover?
Thanks for the ping!
Nailed him! Good JOB!!!
I thought the idea of having a security clearance was to give the person a sort of "bond." The person with a SECRET Clearance was known to be WORTHY of keeping the information SECURE. TRUSTWORTHY. Lose your WORTHyness: Lose the clearance.
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