[aristeides]

The fact that something is common knowledge does not stop confirming it from being a criminal act if it is classified and the government official who confirms it knows it is classified.

[shhrubbery!]

The fact that something is common knowledge does not stop confirming it from being a criminal act

I heard it said (I believe by Andrew Napolitano on Fox) that disclosing the name of a CIA employee is a crime only if the person making the disclosure knows the employee is undercover.

But in any case, that was not my point. I was not making a statement about criminality or non-criminality. I am not a lawyer and don't know.

I was simply saying that, according to Novak's own account, this was NOT a "LEAK."

Continuing to parrot the Democrats and the leftist media by calling it a "LEAK" is playing the Dem's game.