Blown wide open
I'm not sure I'm optimistic as this guy is about the results, but this article at From The Wilderness lays out the chain of events and various malfeasences surrounding the Plame affair pretty nicely.
Take with grain of salt, as with everything I link to, but there's some good info there, for example:
"Willing disclosure of the identity of a covert operative is a serious felony under Federal law, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 makes it a crime for anyone with access to classified information to intentionally disclose information identifying a covert operative. The penalties get worse for doing it to a deep cover Direcorate of Operations (DO) case officer (as opposed to an undercover DEA Agent)."
This guy specializes in actually doing the research and looking into what's on the books and in the press versus what people say, and the article (while long) is pretty urgent & key.
Take with grain of salt, as with everything I link to, but there's some good info there, for example:
"Willing disclosure of the identity of a covert operative is a serious felony under Federal law, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 makes it a crime for anyone with access to classified information to intentionally disclose information identifying a covert operative. The penalties get worse for doing it to a deep cover Direcorate of Operations (DO) case officer (as opposed to an undercover DEA Agent)."
This guy specializes in actually doing the research and looking into what's on the books and in the press versus what people say, and the article (while long) is pretty urgent & key.
