Final Proof That Plame's Identity Wasn't Secret

Right on the Right ^ | 4-19-06 | RealTeen

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A critic of mine tried to say that the recently released memos which showed no indication of Plame's identity being secret were actually marked secret. You can read our entire exchange HERE, and I figured I'd break down the evidence. First off, let's look at THE PICTURE of the memo:

What you'll notice, and what the Left is trying to point out, is that the memo has the word Secret on it. It says UNCLASSIFIED at the top, but that designation was given to it recently. With all this shown, you would assume the entire memo was classified when this information was released. That's simply not so. Right under the word secret, you'll see the abbreviation DECL, which was on this original document in 2003. If you look this up in the military dictionary, you'll see the following definition:

declassify- To cancel the security classification of an item of classified matter. Also called DECL.

What does this say? This memo, which talks of Valerie Plame's identity, was declassified BEFORE any leak in 2003, thus there was NO illegal activity. If that isn't enough, I researched the type of declassification this was, and found the following:

1.6 X 1: Reveal an intelligence source, method or activity, or a cryptologic system or activity

You will notice from the picture, that this is a 1.6 X 1 type of declassification. This actually means that the information was purposely declassified so that this intelligence source, method, or activity information would be available. Valerie Plame wasn't covert, or else this would have STAYED secret.

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we ought to compare notes sometime....

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from today's coldheartedtruth blog:

"Robert Novak said Wednesday that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald knows who outed a CIA agent to the Chicago Sun-Times columnist but hasn't acted on the information because Novak's source committed no crime.

Novak also hinted that he personally didn't rely on the Fifth Amendment -- which protects people from testifying against themselves -- in Fitzgerald's investigation. Fitzgerald is investigating who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to Novak and other reporters in an effort to discredit her husband, a critic of the Bush administration.

I have been writing about this for what seems like an eternity. Fitzgerald knew almost immediately that the leaking of Plame's identity was not a crime... and the past two years has been nothing more than a dog and pony show. There is no crime and the investigation at this point has become the real political witch hunt that the left accused Kenneth Starr of heading up. These recent court filings have nothing to do with crimes or the law... and everything to do with politics. Perhaps Fitzgerald believes that politics is important to proving his 'obstruction' case against Libby, but for whatever reasons, it has come down to Fitzgerald judging the politics (rather than the legal standing) of the situation."