Victoria Toensing an attorney and white collar crime expert writes in Human Events: "There now appears to be consensus that no one violated the 1982 Agent Identities Protection Act in publishing the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame.
It's a hard law to violate. Its high threshold requires that the person whose identity is revealed must actually be covert (which requires at the least a foreign assignment within five years of the revelation), that the government must be taking "Affirmative measures" to conceal the person's identity, and that the revealer must know that the government is taking those measures.
So why didn't Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the "leak" and close up shop long ago? Click on the title above for a link to the rest of the Human Events article by Victoria Toensing.
