Woo hoo! Front page WP: Leak of CIA Name Being Investigated

[dkf]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11208-2003Sep27.html

Leak of CIA Name Being Investigated
Agent's Identity Disclosed to Journalists

CIA Director George J. Tenet wants to know whether officials in the White House broke federal law.

By Mike Allen and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 28, 2003; Page A01

At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that an administration official leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, administration officials said yesterday.

The operative's identity was published in July after her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy "yellowcake" uranium ore from Africa, which can be used in nuclear weapons. Bush later backed away from the claim.

The intentional disclosure of a covert operative's identity can violate federal law.

A senior administration official said two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and revealed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife. That was shortly after Wilson revealed in July that the CIA had sent him to Niger last year to look into the uranium claim and that he had found no evidence to back up the charge. Wilson's account eventually touched off a controversy over Bush's use of intelligence as he made the case for attacking Iraq.

[Sliverofhope]

1. Is this new info?

A senior administration official said two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and revealed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife.

I didn't know this. I thought it was just Novak. Is this new information?

[dkf]

2. I know reporters from either Time or Newsweek were also told.

Bush is toast.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. It was Time Mag.

n/t

[qanda]

3. Well, I'll be!

I think this is new info. Better get a copy of it before it "mysteriously" changes.

[priller]

6. What's new is that the "senior administration official"

is actually admitting that the two "WH officials" did it, and did it purely out of revenge and as a warning to other intelligence officers. And this after furious denials from the WH.

[colorado_ufo]

5. Superior article from the Washington Post -

everyone should read it in its entirety. This is HOT stuff!

[candy331]

7. It

seems that this is the same situation in UK with the leaking of Kelley's name which led to his suicide. They are still investigating this over there caused a great stink. I guess Blair and Bush thought they were just too clever to ever get get caught. I truly believe evil does have a way of catching up to you. I remember this pasage in the bible NT that says something like this- some men sins manifest themselves in a long while and some in a short while but they will be manifested. Can we hope that Bush's will be manifested in a short while?