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9/27/2003 11:20:00 PM | Timothy You don't protect national security by revealing the names of CIA agents as partisan payback MSNBC reports and Time Magazine follows up: "The DOJ opens a preliminary probe into whether the White House illegally unmasked a CIA operative." Ambassador Joe Wilson had bent sent to Africa to investigate claims about Saddam seeking nuclear material a year and half ago, and he found no evidence of this. Somehow this didn't make it to the President's desk before the war. When Wilson later spoke out about this, columnist Robert Novak wrote that 2 top White House officials had told him that Wilson's wife was a CIA officer. The idea was that Wilson's wife had somehow suggested he be selected for the mission, and this made him guilty of nepotism, I guess. Wilson said that if Novak's reporting was correct, the naming showed "a deliberate attempt on the part of the White House to intimidate others and make them think twice about coming forward." The disclosure of an undercover CIA officer seems to violate U.S. law (for the administration officials; journalists usually have more protections). The Washington Post reports that another senior administration official has said that these two other officials had called at least 6 journalists (only Novak went public) and that this disclosure was "wrong and a huge miscalculation, because they were irrelevant and did nothing to diminish Wilson's credibility" and said of the leak: "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge." Bushies turning on Bushies. While some journalists know who these two officials are, they apparently do not know "for the record." But back in August, Wilson said he wanted "to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs." Wilson said that if Novak's reporting was correct the naming showed "a deliberate attempt on the part of the White House to intimidate others and make them think twice about coming forward." See more here, here, here, here, and here and more background here and here. Dean is already calling for accountability. perma link |
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