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To: lugsoul

great circular reasoning there:

no one was charged with revealing classifed information. even the people who ADMITTED they revealed her employment status (Armitage, Wilson himself) and members of the press who repeated it, have not been charged or faced even the slightest scrutiny for it.

Yet, the CIPA proceeding found that Libby couldn't use information about Plame, because it's classified.


125 posted on 02/13/2007 11:00:01 AM PST by oceanview
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To: oceanview
You aren't really that dumb, are you? I mean, you have to be just making arguments for argument's sake, because that's just painfully stupid.

First - revealing classified information, with nothing more, isn't a crime. There is an intent element to every crime involving revealing classified information, and not every revelation of classified information is a criminal act.

Second, you seem to be hung up on IIPA, which you correctly note no one was charged under. IIPA relates to the intentional revelation of covert identity. It does not cover the revelation of classified information that relates to persons other than covert ops within the statutory definition.

Third, the Court DID have two and a half months of CIPA hearings about what could and could not be revealed, and one of the outcomes of that was that Plame's status would not be a part of the case. Maybe you believe that courts like to waste their time by deciding to keep out classified info that isn't really classified. If you believe that, you don't spend much time dealing with them.

Fourth, every time her status has come up in the trial, the CIA lawyers have gotten involved. I guess they are doing that to protect classified info that isn't even classified - that basically your take on it?

126 posted on 02/13/2007 11:06:21 AM PST by lugsoul (Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)
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