Plame leak my violate Patriot Act - Democratic Underground

HootieMcBoob

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Tue Oct-28-03 09:19 AM
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Plame leak my violate Patriot Act

As some on DU had speculated ages ago...

If, as now seems likely, top White House aides leaked the identity of an American undercover agent, they may have committed an act of domestic terrorism as defined by the dragnet language of the Patriot Act their boss wanted so much to help him catch terrorists.

Section 802 of the act defines, in part, domestic terrorism as "acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state" that "appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population."

Clearly, disclosing the identity of a CIA undercover agent is an act dangerous to life - the lives of the agent and her contacts abroad whom terrorists groups can now trace - and a violation of the criminal laws of the United States.

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Ladyhawk

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Tue Oct-28-03 09:21 AM
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1. LOL :)

Can't wait for the spin on this one.

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rogerashton

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Tue Oct-28-03 09:29 AM
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2. and it appears to have been intended to intimidate

any opposition to the * administration.

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TacticalPeek

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Tue Oct-28-03 09:41 AM
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3. Oh, What a Tangled Web They Weave

And Now Its Time They Get the Heave.

Ho.

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