[kcvl]

Reporters have told a grand jury that two of the administration's most powerful officials — deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's top adviser — discussed Plame with them. Whether they or anyone broke the law has yet to be determined by the special prosecutor looking into the matter.

No conflict of interest WHEN THEY WRITE THE STORIES, either!!!

[johnqueuepublic]

It takes a hell of a lot more than just discussing Plame/Wilson with reporters to break the disclosure rule from my reading of it.

1. The leaker had to know the agent was covert

2. The disclosure had to be part of a pattern

3. The leaker had to believe that the information would impair US Intel

4. The leaker had to know that the analyst's status was classified material

5. That the agent had to have been on assignment in a foreign country within the last 5 years

6. That the leaker must have acted intentionally, knowing that it was the government's intention to take "affirmative measures to conceal [the agent's] relationship."


Novak contact the CIA and they did NOT say dont publish it.

Plames identity was outed in the mid 1990s both by the Russians and the Cubans.

The law itself was NOT broken, im not a lawyer but i can read.