Bush to commute Libby sentence

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The obvious reason was that she wasn't covert. If she was a covert agent then Fitzgerald would have charged Armitage.

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Its the obvious reason, but its not the only reason. I recall reading at the time that the reason no one was charged with leaking Plame's name was that Fitzgerald couldn't prove that Armitage or Libby knew that Plame was covert. That was a necessary element of the crime.

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Why don't you post a link to the law your referring to so we can all read it. To be honest, I think it's high time we had a look at it and if you guys don't have any context as to what law was allegedly violated in revealing the covert agents status I'm not sure why we're discussing this.

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"What's this 'we', white man?"

Earlier in this thread I stated:

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Specifically, in the original indictment, prosecutors contended that Libby had potentially violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by disclosing Plame's covert status to New York Times reporter Judy Miller on at least three occassions.

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The fact that you apparently haven't bothered to familiarize yourself what laws were considered to be relevant to the case is telling, if not particularly surprising given what you've written in this thread.
Here's a Wikipedia entry on it, here's the text of the act itself.

The Wikipedia article states:
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The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (Pub.L. 97-200, 50 U.S.C. § 421-426) is a United States federal law that makes it a federal crime to intentionally reveal the identity of an agent whom one knows to be in or recently in certain covert roles with a U.S. intelligence agency.

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