Sunday, September 28, 2003
Karl Rove in a spot of bother?
A couple of months back, I had made a post about Ambssador Joseph Wilson's op-ed in the New York Times, in which he basically blew holes through Team Bush's assertion that Iraq was trying to purchase Uranium from Niger. Just as a quick recap, someone in the White House leaked the name of/blew the cover of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, an under-cover CIA operative in a bizarre attempt to extract revenge. Point being that an allegation of nepotism could be made. Instead, what the White House got was a CIA request for a probe of the White House to see who leaked that ultra-sensitive piece of information (unmasking a spy and pretty much her entire network) just for pettiness's sake. The Washington Post has more.
Wilson, while refusing to confirm his wife's occupation, has suggested publicly that he believes Bush's senior adviser, Karl C. Rove, broke her cover. Wilson said Aug. 21 at a public forum in suburban Seattle that it is of keen interest to him "to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs."
The Intelligence Protection Act, passed in 1982, imposes maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and $50,000 in fines for unauthorized disclosure by government employees with access to classified information.
Wilson, while refusing to confirm his wife's occupation, has suggested publicly that he believes Bush's senior adviser, Karl C. Rove, broke her cover. Wilson said Aug. 21 at a public forum in suburban Seattle that it is of keen interest to him "to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs."
The Intelligence Protection Act, passed in 1982, imposes maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and $50,000 in fines for unauthorized disclosure by government employees with access to classified information.
