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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (468175)	10/1/2003 1:09:40 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act, was enacted in 1982 and was designed to protect the identities of covert U.S. agents. It was a response to an organized campaign led by former CIA agent Philip Agee to identify CIA and other U.S. covert agents around the world. "The fact that it's on the books has a very sobering effect on people who have access to sensitive information," he said. "Usually its existence is enough of a deterrent, and that has been the case with this law." The CIA makes about one referral a week to the Justice Department concerning possible unauthorized disclosure of classified information, according to officials. Never has a referral been directed at the White House for disclosing a covert agent's identity. (Now who's going to try that 18 times a month lie again?) Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. - 50 U.S.C. section 421(a) Doesn't sound too tough to understand at all.