[flashbunny]

man, the left really is pathetic.

[Republican Wildcat]

Under the relevant law--the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982--a crime is committed when a government official (not a journalist) "intentionally discloses any information identifying" an undercover intelligence officer.

There is no evidence yet to suggest Rove knew she was an undercover intelligence officer. The inference the person who wrote this article attempts to get the readers to draw is a lie.

[kcvl]

It's only David Corn. The snake lives under a rock so just ignore him.

[Steve_Stifler]

Corn was one of the leftist commentators during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal who was consistently wrong about the applicable law. I seriously doubt he's become any better with his legal analytical skills.

[axes_of_weezles]

hMMM Corn. That's the recognizable stuff in my feces. :}

[KingNo155]

Dave Corn's thong has been riding high lately, he's got a hair in his ass for anything Rove... and won't let go. Poor girl.

[My2Cents]

David Corn...I don't trust a person with no lips.

[hosepipe]

David Corn at the Nation, Hmmmm...
Richard Simmons clucking in a chicken suit protesting at Col. Sanders, is more relevant than Corn..

[denydenydeny]

[Waco]

I leaked my Aunt Mabel's iced tea recipe today. Sure hope the Nation caught it!!!

[HawaiianGecko]

 

 

	It is NOT a crime to reveal the name of a covert agent. It is a crime to reveal that a person IS a covert agent! If the former (and what the loony left believes) were true we would have to jail everyone that ever introduces any of these people to friends and family. The person that "outed" Valerie Plame is Joe Wilson, her less than intelligent husband.  Karl Rove didn't tell anyone that Wilson's wife was a secret agent.

 

[counterpunch]

Rove did not have access to classified information, so he could have only known by secondhand knowledge, and thus he couldn't have even committed a crime, even if he had known her name or CIA status. Apparently, Rove learned the little that he knew from another journalist.

With Wilson and his "secret agent" wife doing photo spreads in Vanity Fair (there couldn't be a more appropriate magazine for these two), its no mystery how her CIA employment became such an "open secret" in Washington.

[McGavin999]

Uh, I guess nobody noticed her driving her flashy convertable into the parking lot at Langley ever day.

[claudiustg]

David Corn cracks me up. If desperate flailing about would save the lefties we'd be living under President Kerry and a Democratic Congress, but we're not are we? What a bunch of incompetent, twisted morons.

[PMCarey]

The dumb**** can't even keep his essay on point from one paragraph to another:

Under the relevant law--the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982--a crime is committed when a government official (not a journalist) "intentionally discloses any information identifying" an undercover intelligence officer ...

... Revealing the name is not the crime; it's disclosing information that IDs the officer ...

... A reading of this law also indicates that if Cooper's email is accurate then Rove did pass classified information to Cooper. It's possible that Rove did so unwittingly. That is, he did not know Valerie Wilson's employment status at the CIA was classified information.

[goldstategop]

LMAO! This is the first time I've seen the Bush-hating David Corn worry about leaks. You'd think he'd welcome the disclosure of Valerie Plame's CIA identity. Of course if Karl Rove had been a liberal, the Left would be praising his whistleblowing to the skies. Life's funny depending on who looks at it - and the liberals have decided for once whistleblowing is bad for the country and are using it as a basis to demand Rove's head be served up on a platter.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[papertyger]

Is there anything better than watching frustrated leftists pull the cord on a mower that won't start, only to have another step in saying "here, let me try?"

[Oystir]

wow. even a dum lawyer never tells you to admit to the crime.

[FreedomCalls]

Read this amicus brief from 36 news organizations (including the New York Times!) as to why no crime was committed by Rove. It refutes every one of Corn's claims.

[danamco]

David Corn has been an excellent student of Bubba!
It depends of what "is" is!!!