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To: jlallen who wrote (11338)	11/25/2007 5:04:13 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

The hildabeest is going down for the count...<g> news.yahoo.com GZ

To: jlallen who wrote (11338)	11/26/2007 1:54:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"I have no problem with Libby's conviction and jail time." Hey, good to know.... But you were the one who said that President Bush's comments were "irrelevant": "I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors." George Herbert Walker Bush, CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999. Message 24081578 And also you were the one who seemed to make such a deal about Libby (& perhaps others...) escaping being charged --- by the narrowest of technicalities :-) --- for revealing Intelligence agents identities. All I did was point out the criminal convictions which resulted from the cover-up phase crimes, as well as President Bush's comments regarding the immorality of revealing agent's identities (which you referred to as 'Irrelevant"), regardless of whether or not such immoral actions fit the narrow strictures of the Intelligence agent act.... ------------------------- Skating out one one particular felony charge (but being convicted of others...) because of a legal technicality: 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> Message 24080054