The next CIA leak case
Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr
11/18/05
A CIA leak to be investigated and maybe punished ... What! Not again! Now, as with the leak of the identity of covert agent Valerie Plame, the offense is the leak, not what was leaked. In the case of Valerie Plame, the news was that her husband, Joseph Wilson, had been sent to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium to make a nuclear weapon, and had returned with word that there was no evidence of this. This was embarrassing to a White House, which had taken America to war on the assertion that we were in imminent danger from unconventional, possibly nuclear, arms. But that issue was buried in the quest to find out who had leaked...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1118/p09s01-cods.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Daniel Schorr
11/18/05
A CIA leak to be investigated and maybe punished ... What! Not again! Now, as with the leak of the identity of covert agent Valerie Plame, the offense is the leak, not what was leaked. In the case of Valerie Plame, the news was that her husband, Joseph Wilson, had been sent to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium to make a nuclear weapon, and had returned with word that there was no evidence of this. This was embarrassing to a White House, which had taken America to war on the assertion that we were in imminent danger from unconventional, possibly nuclear, arms. But that issue was buried in the quest to find out who had leaked...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1118/p09s01-cods.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 21. Nov, 17:31
