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Bush's Clemency

Submitted by Z. Petals, Jul 5, 2007 01:20

Amazing that the editors a nationally-read newspaper would display such profound ignorance of the law they purport to describe.

In order to be guilty of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, one need only be someone with authorized access to protected information who willfully discloses that information knowing it to be protected. Whether or not someone else may have dislcosed the information as well has no bearing on the elements of the crime.

In other words, the fact that Armitage spoke to Novak did not under any circumstances mean that Libby did not violate the act, and the investigation most certainly should NOT have stopped.

Shame on you.

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