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the G-man said:
it hasn't been established that a crime was committed.

The only way you can establish a crime was committed, as a matter of law, is when there has been a conviction.

There hasn't been a conviction for outing a CIA covert operative. In fact, to date, no one has even been charged with that.



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r3x29yz4a said:
Wouldn't you say outing an agent for personal reasons is unethical and immoral, even if its not illegal?



You are changing the terms of the debate to suit your agenda.

The question was not about ethics. That is, typically, a matter of individual conscience.

The question was whether or not a crime was committed. That is a legal conclusion, requiring adequate evidence.

Furthermore, you assume facts not in evidence with your question. You assume that: (a) an agent was "outed;" (b) the motive for the outing was personal, not policy.

At this point, there is at least as much evidence to suggest your "facts" are wrong; that Plame was not a covert agent and that the revelation of her identity was simply to explain a potential conflict of interest between herself, her husband and his statements.

Accordingly, the issue you present is not per se an issue presented here.