From: Adam Flinton 

Gary Britt wrote:
> Its a rather long statute, which I read recently but don't have memorized.
> It makes it illegal to knowingly and intentionally disclose the identity and
> fact of a covert agent's existence.   Covert agent is someone who worked
> overseas within the past 5 years in a covert capacity.  That's a really
> rough summary based upon a quick, dirty, and possibly incomplete read of the
> statute.
>

So the "energy analyst for a private firm" was not her real job then?

I wonder why she was described as such & indeed why she described
hereself as such.

What's more it makes things even worse for the admin as it turns out that
Wilson's wife was fully knowledgable in matters pertaining to WMD which
lends Wilsons criticisms even more weight given the subject he raised.

Simply because Rove was party to sensitive information did not give him any
right to divulge that sensitive information least of all simply to make an
attack on someone else who was making a valid criticism.

Adam

> Gary
>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:42d2af20{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Gary Britt wrote:
>>
>>>What excuse is needed?  Its not unlawful to say "Wilson's
Wife" in a
>>>sentence.  It doesn't identify her name or blow any alleged CIA cover.
>
> It
>
>>>doesn't even .  Further, it doesn't appear she was a covert agent
>
> covered by
>
>>>the relevant statutes because their is a question about whether she
>
> worked
>
>>>overseas as an undercover agent during the preceding 5 years.
>>>
>>>Nothing to excuse, because there is no there there.
>>>
>>
>>"Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency"
>>
>>What's the law again?
>>
>>Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>>Gary
>>>
>>>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>>news:42d2687b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Yep Rove said "Wilson's wife" instead of her name
when identifying her
>>>
>>>role
>>>
>>>
>>>>to the reporter. I wonder what lame excuse the Rove apologists will
>>>
>>>conjure
>>>
>>>
>>>>up now?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR20050710010
00_pf.html
>
>>>>White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with at least one
>>>
>>>reporter
>>>
>>>
>>>>about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified as a
>>>
>>>covert
>>>
>>>
>>>>agent in a newspaper column two years ago, but Rove's lawyer said
>>>
>>>yesterday
>>>
>>>
>>>>that his client did not identify her by name.
>>>>
>>>>Cooper, according to an internal Time e-mail obtained by Newsweek
>>>
>>>magazine,
>>>
>>>
>>>>spoke with Rove before Novak's column was published. In the
>
> conversation,
>
>>>>Rove gave Cooper a "big warning" that Wilson's
assertions might not be
>>>>entirely accurate and that it was not the director of the CIA or the
>
> vice
>
>>>>president who sent Wilson on his trip. Rove apparently told
Cooper that
>
> it
>
>>>>was "Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency
on [weapons of
>
> mass
>
>>>>destruction] issues who authorized the trip,"
according to a story in
>>>>Newsweek's July 18 issue.
>>>>
>>>>"Adam Flinton" 
wrote in message
>>>>news:42d1b824{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
>>>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR20050710007
58.html
>
>>>>>"Top White House advisor Karl Rove was one of the
secret sources that
>>>>>spoke to reporters about a covert CIA operative whose
identity was
>>>
>>>leaked
>>>
>>>
>>>>>to the media, Newsweek magazine reported in its latest edition.
>>>>>
>>>>>The magazine said Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin,
confirmed that Rove
>>>
>>>talked
>>>
>>>
>>>>>to Time magazine about former ambassador Joseph Wilson
and his wife,
>
> CIA
>
>>>>>agent Valerie Plame."
>>>>>
>>>>>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4e68d3ae-f190-11d9-9c3e-00000e2511c8.html
>>>>>
>>>>>"Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top
political adviser, was the
>>>>>secret source who gave a Time magazine reporter
permission to testify
>>>
>>>last
>>>
>>>
>>>>>week, thus avoiding jail for contempt of court,
Newsweek reported on
>>>>>Sunday."
>>>>>
>>>>>"Mr Rove has insisted he did not leak Ms Plame's
name, and e-mail
>>>
>>>accounts
>>>
>>>
>>>>>included in the Newsweek story only make clear that he
talked to Mr
>>>
>>>Cooper
>>>
>>>
>>>>>about Mr Wilson's wife, without revealing her name."
>>>>>
>>>>>About his wife without revealing her name?????
>>>>>
>>>>>Ummm gee that'll really slow anyone down.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>

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