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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (37892)	7/12/2005 11:59:47 PM
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"Who the hell is Victoria Toensing representing in all this?" ....The 1982 law that makes it a crime to disclose the identities of covert agents is not easy to break. It has apparently been the basis of a single prosecution, against Sharon M. Scranage, a C.I.A. clerk in Ghana who pleaded guilty in 1985 to identifying two C.I.A. agents to a boyfriend there. A prosecutor seeking to establish a violation of the law has to establish an intentional disclosure by someone with authorized access to classified information. That person must know that the disclosure identifies a covert agent "and that the United States was taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States." A covert agent is defined as someone whose identity is classified information and who has served outside the United States within the last five years. "We made it exceedingly difficult to violate," Victoria Toensing, who was chief counsel to the Senate intelligence committee when the law was enacted, said of the law..... nytimes.com

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