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To: Lance Romance
The White House confirmed this morning that she was undercover. Text of an e-mail to White House staff Tuesday from counsel Alberto R. Gonzales PLEASE READ: Important Message From Counsel's Office We were informed last evening by the Department of Justice that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee.
2 posted on 09/30/2003 6:05:40 PM PDT by Symblized
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To: Symblized
The White House confirmed this morning that she was undercover.

You are simply incorrect. I don't know why you and several other insist on not reading the note from the White House Counsel in its entirety.

The whole statement says, "We were informed last evening by the Department of Justice that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee."

That statement is reiterating what the accusation is, not that these are the concluded facts of the situation. The DOJ has opened an investigation. The investigation is to look into IF there was a possible unauthorized disclosure of an undercover CIA employee's identity.

In fact, the investigation is likely to conclude that NO unathorized disclosure occurred, because the law pertains to "covert agents", not analysts and Mrs. Wilson was/is an analyst.

Hence, even if an administration official (which doesn't mean anyone in the White House) had named Mrs. Wilson, it wouldn't matter because she was an analyst and the law (Title 50, Chapter 15, Section 421) doesn't apply to analysts.

Please read Novak's most recent statement to see that he said, ""ccording to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of undercover operatives."

5 posted on 09/30/2003 6:15:27 PM PDT by mattdono
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To: Symblized
The WH did not confirm she was
undercover. That is nothing more
than a stated allegation they will
investigate as part of the case.
Novak says he was told just the
opposite by CIA sources, and they
only suggested he not name her but
were okay with it anyway.

6 posted on 09/30/2003 6:17:26 PM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Symblized
Title 50, Chapter 15, Section 421

Read the law. Get a clue.

8 posted on 09/30/2003 6:22:36 PM PDT by mattdono
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To: Symblized
The text of the letter did not, in fact, comfirm that the Mrs Wilson was an undercover operative, only that the Justice Dept. was launching an investigation into the possible unauthorized release of the name of an undercover operative.

I know that the distinction is a bit fine and that I might be picking nits, so to speak, but accuarecy must be observed when posting information about such a touchy subject.

10 posted on 09/30/2003 6:23:27 PM PDT by The_Pickle ("We have no Permanent Allies, We have no Permanent Enemies, Only Permanent Interests")
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To: Symblized
The White House confirmed this morning that she was undercover. Text of an e-mail to White House staff Tuesday from counsel Alberto R. Gonzales PLEASE READ: Important Message From Counsel's Office We were informed last evening by the Department of Justice that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee.

I don't see Valerie's name here.

36 posted on 09/30/2003 7:35:53 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Symblized
The White House confirmed this morning that she was undercover.

Didn't diagram a whole lot of sentences in elementary school, did you?

41 posted on 09/30/2003 8:08:52 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Symblized
Anyone know what Joe's bio website address is?
46 posted on 09/30/2003 8:40:42 PM PDT by FLcitizen
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