--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [...] > > > It seems unlikely that Rove, as campaign stragegist in 2003, would > > > have clearance to know who covert CIA ops were. And even if he > DID, he would have had to have a "need to know" -- which is even more > unlikely. So it appears to me that Rove is not "eligible" for > prosecution. > > > > > If Rove sat in on a briefing with President Bush where Valerie Plame > > was identified in some way, he de facto had clearance for that > > information. > > Perhaps. But that still seems to miss the point. Rove could have > gotten the info in any number of ways. The technical point that seems > lost in all of this is that if Rove did not have a formal clearance (a > forma CIA piece of paper) from the CIA for the security level required > to access information on the IDs of covert ops (a very high level of > clearance I assume and not give out lightly), then under the statute, > Rove can not be prosecuted.
I doubtif the statute says one must have "CIA clearance" in order to be prosecuted for outing a CIA operative. The White House can grant security clearance to anyone, AFAIK. Or are you trying to claim that the head of the US military and the head of all law enforcement and security forces in the USA can't inform the CIA, US military, etc., to proceed with a briefing? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
