Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>IN ESSENCE THEY DID PROVE THAT SHE WASN"T COVERT AND THAT SHE WAS OUTED<<<


Why are you screaming? Out of frustration that you still don't get it? If Plame wasn't covert in the first place, why didn't they ask george Tenet to confirm that?


>>>HOW COULD THEY "PROVE" IT W/O A TRIAL??? HOW EXACTLY COULD THEY HAVE PROVED IT BEFORE TRIAL?<<<

See above. If Tenet had produced evidence that Plame was NOT covert at the time of the outing there would have been no violation of the statute and no need for a trial. I have explained this to you THREE TIMES now. Instead, the Bush WH allowed the trial to go forward, allowed Libby to perjure himself 5 times which got him a 30 month prison sentence (commuted), a $250,000 fine, 2 years probation and a lost law license.

Since you're having so much trouble I'll answer for you. The reason Bush didn't ask Tenet to confirm that Plame wasn't covert was because he couldn't. Tenet's CIA was the agency that asked the justice department to investigate the outing of one of their agents to begin with. Why did they ask for that? It's not illegal to reveal the identity of a non-covert CIA employee.


On September 26, 2003, at the request of the CIA, the Department of Justice and the FBI began a criminal investigation into the possible unauthorized disclosure of classified information regarding Valerie Wilson’s CIA affiliation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_leak_grand_jury_investigation