Joe Nation wrote:Be careful, okie, he's trapping you.
Joe(try not to mention Monica)Nation
I knew where he was headed a couple of posts ago. The difference is there were underlying crimes with Whitewater, and in fact several people were convicted, including the former governor of Arkansas. The difference is even if plea bargains occurred in that case, there was alot of underlying corruption that spurred the eventual perjury of Clinton.
The difference in this case is the fact that Plame was not a covert agent. And the law covering covert agents was not broken. Even the person that originally helped write the law said it never even came close. This whole affair does not amount to a hill of beans, except politics, that is all it amounts to. Its all about Joe Wilson and his politics.
Victoria Toensing helped write the law that forms the basis of this whole investigation, and this what she has to say about it:
Being one of the key people to help draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, Toensing has been retained by a number of media organizations to give commentary on the Plame Affair. In March 2005 Toensing authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller, two journalists who were subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame investigation for refusing to reveal information obtained from confidential sources. In the brief, she argued that "there exists ample evidence in the public record to cast serious doubt as to whether a crime has even been committed under the Intelligence Protection Act in the investigation underlying the attempts to secure testimony from Miller and Cooper."[citation needed] She also contended that Ms. Plame didn't have a cover to blow, citing a July 23, 2004 article in the Washington Times which argued that Valerie Plame's status as an undercover CIA agent may have been known to Russian and Cuban intelligence operations prior to the article (by Robert Novak) that revealed her status as a CIA employee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Toensing
