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Will the Plame case produce an unofficial secrets act? - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "Briefing News & Politics Arts Life Business & Tech Science Podcasts & Video Blogs HOME / press box : Media criticism. An Unofficial Secrets Act? The ugly fur ball the Plame investigation may cough up. By Jack Shafer Posted Monday, Oct. 10, 2005, at 6:40 PM ET After Robert Novak blew Valerie Plame's covert cover two summers ago in his syndicated column , I repeatedly wrote that the government couldn't possibly use the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 to prosecute the two "administration officials" who gave him Plame's identity. I found the IIPA, the law most frequently cited in news accounts about the leak investigation, too narrowly composed to apply. The leaker must have authorized access to the officer's identity. He must knowingly transmit the identity. He must engage in a pattern of disclosure. The government must actively protect the officer's identity, and so on and so on. PRINT DISCUSS E-MAIL RSS RECOMMEND... SINGLE PAGE Facebook MySpace Mixx Digg Reddit del.icio.us Furl Ma.gnolia Sphere StumbleUpon CLOSE But it now appears that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has a very different law in mind for his case. According to New York Times reporter David Johnston's Oct. 7 article , " Prosecutor in Leak Inquiry Orders Rove to Return Again ," lawyers involved in the case say the prosecutor may invoke much more broadly worded espionage law in his pursuit of the Plame leakers. Related in Slate Like a broken record, Jack Shafer discounted the possibility of a successful prosecution of the P" .... read entire page
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