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Originally posted by sgtclub
If he was leaking after it had been leaked, then it seems to me it was already in the public domain and no longer confidential and therefore not actually a leak.
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That's crazy. If Spy 1 sells secrets to the Chinese and gets caught, can he get out of trouble by proving that Spy 2 had earlier sold the same secrets to the Russians? Of course not.
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It was also not a violation of any law, as Slave and I have been saying for years now.
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Slave was saying that on the basis of facts that Fitzpatrick later contradicted in court filings. For example, he seemed pretty sure that Plame wasn't under cover, but Fitz and the CIA said otherwise. And the fact that Fitz did not bring charges does not mean that no law was broken.
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The only illegality here is the perjury, the punishment for which you apparently do not agree.
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I don't have a problem with the sentence he got. I have a problem with Bush commuting the sentence, less because I care about Libby doing time and more because I'm disgusted by the way that this administration puts itself above the law.
