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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88843)	6/23/2012 2:33:01 AM
From: Hawkmoon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 89467

Watergate or Iran-Contra or Valerie Plame were treasonous acts that were sponsored at the top of the Executive Branch. Kind of like the release of national secrets related to Stuxnet and Flame cyberweapons? habledash.com slate.com Or the details related to the killing of Osama Bin Ladin? foxnews.com These were ALL acts of Treason.. especially with regard to the cyber-attack capability that was covertly being used against the Iranian nuclear program. Even if it might seem "obvious" that US intelligence was playing a role in those covert attacks, it was critical to maintain "plausible deniability" in order to avoid the assertion that the US was conducting (cyber-)war against Iran. As for Valerie Plame, some folks have opined that her "cover" had been blown when she married a former Ambassador (Wilson), especially after Wilson was dispatched by the CIA (Plame's boss selected him, which also compromised her NOC status) to travel to Niger to research rumours of Uranium Yellow Cake exports to Iraq (orginally asserted, I recall, by French intelligence).. The Wilsons (Plame-Wilson) attempted to sue the Cheney, Libby, Armitage, and Rove, but the case was dismissed and the dismissal was upheld on appeal. However, I do concur that Armitage had no business revealing Plame's status as a NOC to Robert Novak. Hawk

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