Reply #8: I see here how they argue how this is related to the Plame case. [View All]

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"The...matters are clearly related to your current investigation," Hinchey and his colleagues wrote to Fitzgerald. "Ambassador Wilson's op-ed article focused on the uranium claim made in the 2003 State of the Union Address and he concluded that 'intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.' You are investigating whether any laws were violated when Administration officials - in order to discredit Wilson’s claim and/or to retaliate against him - leaked to the press the fact that his wife was a CIA agent. As set forth in this letter, Wilson’s original charge that the Administration "twisted" the evidence concerns matters that are just as criminal as the Administration’s attempts to discredit Wilson and his charge by revealing the identity of Mrs. Wilson as a CIA operative."

Hinchey said, "Mr. Fitzgerald's investigation holds grave implications for the safety of our C.I.A. operatives, the freedom of our press, and the accountability of our current executive branch leadership. The laws that high-level members of the Bush Administration may very well have violated are of a very serious nature on their own. However, when you take into account that these laws may have been broken in order to commence a major war, it becomes clear that action must be taken to punish those who misled the Congress and the American people. We have American men and women dying in Iraq on a daily basis because people in this Administration fabricated or manipulated intelligence on uranium that was used as a key reason for justifying the war. This is wholly unacceptable and I believe that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald has the authority and the responsibility to investigate these possible criminal violations.".......