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Originally Posted by Simon W. Moon  What part of the USG publicly acknowledging something are you having trouble understanding? |
Yes um leaking the name to a member of the press doesn't count as disclosing the name to the public now? That's some interesting logic you have there.
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Novak ≠ the United States government
Armitage ≠ the United States government
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A) Armitage was a member of the Bush administration thus Armitage does = U.S. Government.
B) Novak is the member of the press thus a member of the U.S. government divulging Plame's identity to him does = public disclosure.
C) The CIA itself disclosed her name long ago through the Swiss embassy in Havana.
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Following from this is the necessary conclusion that neither the actions of Armitage nor the actions of Novak constitute the United States publicly acknowledging or revealing the intelligence relationship to the United State.
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This is a laughable assertion since the crux of the lefts argument has been that the crime lay specifically in disclosing her name, whether or not it was publicly disclosed after the leak is irrelevant.
But regardless are you honestly trying to assert that a member of the U.S. government divulging the information to a member of the press does not constitute as the:
"United States publicly acknowledging or revealing the intelligence relationship to the United States of the individual the disclosure of whose intelligence relationship to the United States is the basis for the prosecution"?