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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Don Hurst who wrote (222858)3/7/2007 1:09:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Why did Tenet's CIA formally request the Justice Dept to do a criminal investigation of the treasonous outing of an undercover CIA agent?

Hey! You finally asked an interesting question! The first half of one, anyway. The second half goes

"...when the CIA knew perfectly well that the agent in question was not covert for the purposes of the criminal statute being cited and that no damage had been done to national security by her supposed 'outing'?"

That's the interesting question. And it has an obvious answer: To strike a blow at Dick Cheney's office and provide politcal ammunition for Joe Wilson and other Democratic foreign policy types. To prevent Bush being re-elected. In other words, for the same reason they approved Michael Scheur publishing a book bashing the Bush administration in the middle of the 2004 Presidential campaign.

In short, it was a political prosecution from start to finish.
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