--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > First, and most obviously, Valerie Plame had to be a covert > > agent > > > > > when Rove exposed her to Cooper. It's not obvious that she > > was. ... > > > > > > > > Yes, it is. The CIA knows whether she was covert > > > > or not, and the CIA was the entity that requested > > > > the Justice Department open the investigation. If > > > > she wasn't covert, no crime was committed, and the > > > > CIA wouldn't have had anything to ask the Justice > > > > Department to investigate. > > > > > > If you read the cited O'donnell post ... he speculates the same > > > thing. But its not certan is it? Or did the CIA or Prosecutor > > > disclose this as certian? > > > > Yes. The CIA did by asking the Justice Department > > to investigate it; the prosecutor did by launching > > the investigation. > > > > Use your head. > > I do. I am trying to understand your use of language. You appear -- > perhaps -- to state things as fact when they are logical and > probably -- but not firmly established as fact.
My father used to say, "Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out." > I am not saying Plame is not covert, it seems she would be per > O'donnells logic and yours. > > But AGAIN, I ask "Or did the CIA or Prosecutor disclose this as > certian?" I didnt ask, "Judy, does this seem logical or probable > to you?" Well, you knew the answer to to the first question. Having made these points, I have to backtrack to something I said earlier: they only apply if the CIA asked Justice to investigate a possible violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Plame wouldn't have had to have been covert for a crime to have been committed under a different statute, the Espionage Act. Mark Kleiman makes an excellent case that this is the one the CIA told Justice may have been violated, and that Rove is much more vulnerable under it than under the IIPA. See his blog post here: http://tinyurl.com/a8sug To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
