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Ärende: Michelle Malkin on Rove/CIA case
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This piece is from columnist Michelle Malkin.  There is a reference at the end
to a Bill Gertz piece on this same issue, and that follows in the next post.


DID THE CIA OUT VALERIE PLAME?
By Michelle Malkin   ·   July 18, 2005 08:56 AM
Andrew McCarthy has the lowdown:

You heard that this was the crime of the century. A sort of
Robert-Hanssen-meets-Watergate in which [Karl] Rove is already cooked and we're
all just waiting for the other shoe - or shoes - to drop on the den of
corruption we know as the Bush administration. That, after all, is the
inescapable impression from all the media coverage. So who is saying different?
The organized media, that's who. How come you haven't heard? Because they've
decided not to tell you. Because they say one thing - one dark, transparently
partisan thing - when they're talking to you in their news coverage, but they
say something completely different when they think you're not listening. 


McCarthy points us to the MSM's amicus brief filed four months ago in support
of Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper:

Though you would not know it from watching the news, you learn from reading the
news agencies' brief that the 1982 law prohibiting disclosure of undercover
agents' identities explicitly sets forth a complete defense to this crime. It
is contained in Section 422 (of Title 50, U.S. Code), and it provides that an
accused leaker is in the clear if, sometime before the leak, "the United States
ha[s] publicly acknowledged or revealed" the covert agent's "intelligence
relationship to the United States[.]" As it happens, the media organizations
informed the court that long before the [Bob] Novak revelation (which, as noted
above, did not disclose Plame's classified relationship with the CIA), Plame's
cover was blown not once but twice. The media based this contention on
reporting by the indefatigable Bill Gertz - an old-school, "let's find out what
really happened" kind of journalist. Gertz's relevant article, published a year
ago in the Washington Times, can be found "here."


Read the whole thing. 

I think it's time to contact the New York Times ombudsman, Byron Calame, and
ask why we haven't read about this in his newspaper:

• E-mail: public@nytimes.com
• Phone: (212) 556-7652
• Address: Public Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036-3959

Update: While you're writing the New York Times, be sure to mention this, too.



John 

America:  First, Last, and Always!
LIBERALS AND DOGS KEEP OFF THE GRASS!

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