It's treason to have constitutional rights violated then reported in

NYT. Kinda gives you some insight into their twisted way of thinking.
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So I guess they would hang whistle blowers now?

would they feel the same way?

My bet is a resounding NO. :grr:

If they can't find the Plame whistler blower, how will they find this one? Nothing will be done as other who were caught red handed were not punished.

There is a difference between simply leaking information, and leaking information in order to expose wrongdoing. No one ever claimed that Valerie Plame was guilty of wrongdoing -- her identity was leaked strictly as political payback. Those who have leaked information about Bush's illegal wiretaps, on the other hand, have leaked information directly about government wrongdoing.

We all need to be aware of these distinctions and communicate carefully; otherwise we allow the issues to become muddied.

who leaked the name as payback

Well, Scooter Libby for one, Cheney's Chief of Staff (and Assistant to the President. He's been indicted for it -- so, innocent until proven guilty and all, but the fact is, her name and status as well as the name of the CIA front company were leaked to the press. No one, but no one, claims there was any wrongdoing on her part; and everyone, but everyone knows how steamed the Bush administration was at her husband Joseph Wilson's refusal to play along with the bogus Niger uranium claims, which the administration wanted to (and did) push as justification for the Iraq invasion.

Hey, you could do some research on your own, y'know. Google is your friend... Try searching on the terms '"Scooter Libby" indictment' for starters.

My point was that I didn't think anyone had been named yet and this is what I found.

"Libby has not (to date) been charged with the crime of revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer; rather, all charges to date are for allegedly lying to investigators and to the grand jury and for obstructing justice - all of which are felony charges."

Many times no one is found and when found nothing done. post 2

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

cover up.

But what can you expect from a bunch of sexually-repressed, fear-ridden morans. Blow Job-High Crime. Outing A Twenty-Year CIA Operation Tracking WMDs-KEWL. Violating Your Oath of Office-KEWL. Emptying The Treasury Into Your Cronies Pockets-KEWL. And the list goes on...without any Congressional Oversight.