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To: Ilaine who wrote (10333)10/2/2003 1:25:28 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 793697
 
"Open secret" or not, Novak didn't know that Plame worked for the CIA before he was told, and the people who told it to him work for the federal government. Whether that constitutes making it "public" or not can be debated.

I'll take the no harm/no foul side of the argument any day. Whether Novak knew is irrelevant, in my view, because it is the disclosure that matters. If it's not a secret, it doesn't matter if the writer or journalist knows.

The statute presumably is designed to protect the identities of those who need them concealed. If their identities are already public knowledge there is no need for the statutory protection.

Do you really think that if I today found an Eskimo who hasn't heard about Valerie Plame and told him she was a secret CIA operative that there would be any viable criminal case made against me?

I don't think so. It's the same thing.
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