Valerie Plame, The CIA agent who had her cover blown by the White House, testified before Congress on Friday. The hearing took place before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Watch Video Below.
Mrs. Plame wasted no time shooting down false information that was spread by the Republican propaganda machine- saying that she was not really a covert agent, and therefore no one at the White House really broke any laws or did anything wrong. But Plame made it clear what her status was. She reported that she couldn't believe that her own government would reveal her status and risk her life and the lives of all of her associates and contacts in the process.
This crime also damaged national security.
Rove, Cheney, and Scooter Libby (possibly more suspects) were behind the leak and it is time for some of these people to be held responsible for their foolishness.
It is past the time for impeachment proceedings and criminal investigations to begin. This was a very serious felony crime.... more than enough for impeachments to begin. In fact, it is worse than the Watergate crimes. This is why i'm baffled as to why nothing is being done about this. The Democrats are scared and are more concerned with winning the next election. The country is so divided and is Republican-leaning in so many places, that the Democrats don't want to talk about impeachments.
At one time, I did not want an impeachment...and least not for Bush himself. However, as more crimes come to light, I now support the idea of impeachments & investigations of certain people in the White House other than the President.
It is past the time for impeachment proceedings and criminal investigations to begin. This was a very serious felony crime.... more than enough for impeachments to begin. In fact, it is worse than the Watergate crimes. This is why i'm baffled as to why nothing is being done about this. The Democrats are scared and are more concerned with winning the next election. The country is so divided and is Republican-leaning in so many places, that the Democrats don't want to talk about impeachments.
At one time, I did not want an impeachment...and least not for Bush himself. However, as more crimes come to light, I now support the idea of impeachments & investigations of certain people in the White House other than the President.
Here is an Additional Link for Watching the Video (Windows Media Player)
Below is a copy of one of the Federal Laws broken in this case by top U.S. government officials.
The Covert Agent Identity Protection Act comes from United States Code Title 50 (War and National Defense), Chapter 15 (National Security), Subchapter IV (Protection of Certain National Security Information), Section 421. Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents, informants, and sources, according to FindLaw. (Source)
The Act
Although the act is identified as the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982," its short title is the "Covert Agent Identity Protection Act":
"(a) Disclosure of information by persons having or having had access to classified information that identifies covert agent. Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
"(b) Disclosure of information by persons who learn identity of covert agents as result of having access to classified information. Whoever, as a result of having authorized access to classified information, learns the identify of a covert agent and intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
"(c) Disclosure of information by persons in course of pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents. Whoever, in the course of a pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents and with reason to believe that such activities would impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the United States, discloses any information that identifies an individual as a covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such individual and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual's classified intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
"(d) Imposition of consecutive sentences. A term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be consecutive to any other sentence of imprisonment."
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