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Matter-eater Man said:
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the G-man said:
I must have missed the day that we threw out the judiciary and decided that the CIA ruled on matters of law.



I wasn't speaking of law but of an agent's status. It's the CIA that decides that, isn't it? Plame had a designated status before Rove started leaking to reporters. It's something recorded in her file. I take it that your suggesting that the CIA may have somehow retroactively changed her status in order to get Rove?




Two points in answer to your post, MEM :

1) It's not proven that Rove is the leaker of Plame's name as the one who sent Wilson to Niger.
The most incriminating thing I've seen about Rove so far is his phone conversation with reporter Robert Novak (about a week prior to when Novak first mentioned Plame by name in his column). Where Novak said to Rove: "I hear that it was Wilson's wife who got him picked for the Niger mission".
And Rove responded: "Yeah, I heard that too."

So Rove and Novak's conversation, if that's the extent of it, was just off-the-record chitchat about things inside the beltway.
Rove wasn't a primary source for a story.
Rove wasn't even a secondary source confirming someone else's leak.
He just said: "Yeah, I heard that too."
Which didn't verify that Plame was the one who sent Wilson on the mission, and doesn't verify she worked for the CIA. Rove just affirmed that he heard the rumor, not whether it was true or not.

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2) The law regarding CIA agent confidentiality says an agent cannot be outed if the agent has worked covertly in the field within the last 5 years.

But Plame left the CIA in 1997, which made it 6 years from her last possible field work and when she was publicly named.




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