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.
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bump the bum!!
Great post/photoshop! :-)
This thing is over.
Thanks for the ping!
Looks like history repeats itself. These guys was a law making their enemy illegal too. It a law designed to lock up a person, a crime, any crime, will do. Actually, no crime is necessary. The Nazis and the Dems approach is the same, you are an enemy of the people because we say so.
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