Wondering whatever happened the investigation of the leaking of Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA officer?
So are Democratic Senators Tom Daschle (S.D.) and Carl M. Levin (Mich.). They have written to Attorney General Ashcroft asking for an update: We request that you provide us with an overall status of the investigation, including the number of people the Justice Department has interviewed, the number of briefings you have received, the general types of information you are briefed on, what conditions you have placed on the scope of these briefings to ensure the independence of this investigation, and whether you have discussed this case with senior administration officials outside the Justice Department.
Mike Allen and Dana Milbank, write in today's Washington Post that the investigation is moving along "behind closed doors."
Of course the release of Plame's name was wrong. However, even Novak himself has gone to great lengths in an attempt to clarify the situation:
I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.
This "leak" became even less of a tempest in a teapot when Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, were highlighted in Vanity Fair.
Leaking Plame's name is still wrong, but boy it is hard to feel sympathetic for the Wilson's when they likewise demonstrate such poor judgement.
Thanks to Betsy Newmark, at Betsy's Page, for the tip.
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