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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Exactly! And along with that just one week ago terrorists were killing people in London and yesterday terrorists killed 19 children in Iraq but this is what the democrats and the MSM need to concentrate on.
As long as there's an amendment which will cause the automatic resignation of any senator who leaks classified information or who tries to drive cars on water, I might support it.
That is the impression I am getting from what I have read. Notice that I said read and not watched (on MSM TV).
Do you have a link to a detailed explanation of what happened? Some details are not clear yet. Could be because it is still under investigation.
Somebody please explain to me why the other faction of this "Two-Party Cartel" hasn't been out to the media exposing leaky & Doofus-Kerry for their crimes? (The scenerio: Annoucement yesterday that immediately after the Shumer thing FOX news can do the one on these 2 Dems crimes....for far & balanced news)
The left is reaching on this one. They have wanted to get Rove for the longest and in their eyes finally have him on something. No, Rove did not mention her by name, but he unless Joe Wilson in into polygamy, he may as well have said her name. With that said, this is going to go nowhere fast...just like every other attempt by the left to nail someone in the Bush administration. Only real question is whether Bush will fire him like he said he would do to whoever "leaked" the information.
"The two chatted as they walked towards Marine One together and both appeared very jovial."
I bet when it's just the two of them and nobody else, they laugh up a storm over this.
The Swimmer is proposing an amendment that those with the name Rove must be fired on the first of every month.
Don't forget to add the names of Dick Lugar and John Kerry to the list of people who have absolutely outted a CIA agent during the Bolton hearings in early April 05 .
If there ever were four true Patriots
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Give me one second...I read it somewhere, although I believe that your words are true. Bush said they would be dealt with, which means some sort of punishment would occur...firing just seems like the logical punishment. Taking away someones security clearance would pretty much be the same as firing them. How good would someone in that position be if they had without a security clearance?
That's OK because Rove didn't do that, but in Kerry's case, he most certainly DID. Let's go! Bring it on!
Start a thread about it and see what happens.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
(In the context of the Constitution, a Bill of Attainder is meant to mean a bill that has an negative effect on a single person or group (for example, a fine or term of imprisonment). Originally, a Bill of Attainder sentenced an individual to death, though this detail is no longer required to have an enactment be ruled a Bill of Attainder.)
Is he considered a Federal employee, since he is voted into office? Or is this "legislation" crafted so narrowly that it wouldn't apply to Democrat senators that leaked secret information?
Huh?
Reason # 1,253,567 to NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT
i will, I found an old article talking about this, I will bring it to the boards
I'd forgotten those details. Thanks!
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