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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: jlallen who wrote (11323)11/25/2007 8:05:14 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 
Re: "...or Fitz would have charged someone who was covered by the act."

Asked and *ALREADY* answered. (See below.)

This one particular law is SO VERY restrictive that NO ONE has EVER been charged under it's provisions!

(Though this particular exposure of an agent and her field operatives probably came CLOSER then any other yet has toward triggering the law's provisions.... Missed it by 'that much'! :-)

Since the law requires - one of several preconditions, I believe - that the exposed agent have been posted overseas without interruption for a preceding five year time span before the exposure is a 'crime' under it's terms... and Plame missed that 'uninterrupted five year period' by a couple of MONTHS, this one case probably came closer then any others since the law was first enacted. Missed it by 'that much'. <G>
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Just because a charge was not brought under the extremely restrictive requirements of this particular act, doesn't in any way mean that the actions themselves weren't REPREHENSIBLE (they were), or that there weren't other actions (in the cover-up phase) that weren't illegal, there were... so I'm not exactly sure what you seem so all-fired happy about.

Something like 'we narrowly skated on this particular felony charge because of a TECHNICALITY... although we had a conviction for OTHER FELONY ACTIONS?

Don't really see where all the JOY comes in from that set of circumstances. :-)
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