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Submitted by Prometheus 6 on October 18, 2005 - 7:56am.
on Politics

I don't even have to read this one.

[TS] A Very Special Scandal
JOHN TIERNEY  | New York Times: Opinion
The outing of Valerie Wilson was done by officials who didn't think it was illegal. Hardball politics isn't pretty, but it's not criminal, either.
 
Let's say it together, children.
Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse 

Hardball politics is criminal when you commit a crime in the name of politics.

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Submitted by Jim O'Sullivan (not verified) on October 18, 2005 - 8:30am.

Yeah, but it has to be against the law in the first place. What makes you so sure the law was violated?

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Submitted by Prometheus 6 on October 18, 2005 - 9:54am.

Their skulking about.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 18, 2005 - 10:00am.

thought it was pretty clear that outing an agent is illegal?

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Submitted by ptcruiser on October 18, 2005 - 10:34am.

Well, if those suspected of disclosing Valerie Plame's name to the press thought that what they had done was well within the lines why haven't they just admitted what they did and saved us all a few public dollars and allow the press to go back to covering the missing white woman of the month. If this is all about nothing why don't they step up and say they did it and declare that they didn't do anything wrong?

I don't admire Br. Clinton but how much money did we spend to uncover the fact that he, like most married people would do, lied about having consensual sex with an adult? Last time I bothered to check that isn't a crime but the same set of folks who want to grant Scooter and the Brain a little taste of slide action on their tiff wanted to impeach Br. Clinton. What goes around always comes around.

One other thing about politics this crowd of "backroom schemers and power trip dreamers" should already know: If it don't hurt it ain't poker.

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Submitted by Prometheus 6 on October 18, 2005 - 10:51am.

It seems that law was written with a political loophole. You have to know the person is undercover and all that, which is blatantly against the standard used in every other legal case (i.e., ignorance of the law is no excuse). There's a bag of other laws in the way though. And it seems there were, at least, a couple of patriots in the White House

MATTHEWS: Do you have anything--anything--anything I don't know you can share with me.

Ms. JORDAN: Anything you don't know? I've had a couple of people come up to me at the White House, completely off the record, hoping that the media does not ignore the CIA leak investigation, that we just don't take what we are being told every day, `Oh, it's being investigated and the attorney general is managing the situation properly. There's no need for a special counsel'...

MATTHEWS: So inside White House people would like to see a real investigation.

Ms. JORDAN: There are a few. I wouldn't say it's many.

MATTHEWS: Oh, God.

That's October 2003. 

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