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the G-man said:
You are changing the terms of the debate to suit your agenda.


I wasn't really part of the debate. I was just chiming in to see your opinion on that particular facet.

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


I think that's morals. Ethics is more the community morals of expected behavior. You're a (supposed) lawyer, you should know that sometimes being ethical is immoral (attorney/client privledge can be considered immoral, even though its ethical).

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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.


A. an agent was outed. how is that even in debate.
B. Policy is pretty much whatever the president does.

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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.


Where did this come from? Everything I have ever read says she was a CIA agent and it wasn't public knowledge. She may not have been undercover in some terrorist cell, but she was still a secret agent.

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


blah blah blah. Accordingly blah blah visa vie blah blah blah

Bow ties are coool.