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To: Cboldt
It doesn't say in the article that the CIA made a complaint. What it does say is the following:

"Corallo said the decision to investigate the leak was made by counterespionage section chief John Dion without consulting Ashcroft."

John Dion works at Justice and is in counterespionage section. Maybe there is more that meets the eye going on here.
191 posted on 07/17/2005 9:05:18 AM PDT by WHBates
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To: WHBates
It doesn't say in the article that the CIA made a complaint.

It can be failrly inferred. CIA has no legal prosecution power, so it has to file complaints with Justice. Justice doesn't act on all complaints filed, in most cases because no leads are provided. That is, they have no person to go after, just the presence of a leak.

The President wants to know who the leaker is too, and the press called for an independent investigation. In principle, CIA and Justice are on the same side, using the same laws, etc.

There is considerable speculation, and it is well described in the media's brief, that the CIA filed the complaint as a matter of CYA or as a defense against a charge that the CIA was unprofessional in handling the covert status of Plame.

199 posted on 07/17/2005 9:41:44 AM PDT by Cboldt
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