Wages of Sin: Death Penalty for Plame & Noor Khan Leak Cases?
Daithí Mac Lochlainn | 17.10.2005 23:02
…from The Daily (University of Washington, Seattle):
“Not only has the administration recklessly endangered the lives of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers who have toured in Iraq, but now it comes out that Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, threatened the life of a covert CIA operative. After ambassador Joseph Wilson proved as fabricated administration claims of uranium purchases by Iraq from Niger, Rove leaked to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and Libby to The New York Times reporter Judith Miller that Wilson's wife Valarie Plame was a CIA agent. If, in doing so, Rove and Libby caused the death of any of Plame's sources, they face the death penalty.”
It seems that the Federal Statute in question, 18 USC § 794, provides for a broader application of the death penalty than the author here seems to indicate as it would not be contingent on whether any of Ms. Plame’s source were killed as a result of the leak in question.
Anyway, I’m not certain whether this has happened and I oppose the death penalty. Yet, the threat might make some Dubya operatives squeal like pigs.
However, there is reason to investigate a possible link between the Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan leak and the London Underground bombings of July 7th, 2005 which resulted in over fifty deaths.
Perhaps, some members of the British Parliament might want to call for an investigation.
Oh, Mr. Galloway, are you there?
http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/10/wages-of-sin.html
“Not only has the administration recklessly endangered the lives of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers who have toured in Iraq, but now it comes out that Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, threatened the life of a covert CIA operative. After ambassador Joseph Wilson proved as fabricated administration claims of uranium purchases by Iraq from Niger, Rove leaked to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and Libby to The New York Times reporter Judith Miller that Wilson's wife Valarie Plame was a CIA agent. If, in doing so, Rove and Libby caused the death of any of Plame's sources, they face the death penalty.”
It seems that the Federal Statute in question, 18 USC § 794, provides for a broader application of the death penalty than the author here seems to indicate as it would not be contingent on whether any of Ms. Plame’s source were killed as a result of the leak in question.
Anyway, I’m not certain whether this has happened and I oppose the death penalty. Yet, the threat might make some Dubya operatives squeal like pigs.
However, there is reason to investigate a possible link between the Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan leak and the London Underground bombings of July 7th, 2005 which resulted in over fifty deaths.
Perhaps, some members of the British Parliament might want to call for an investigation.
Oh, Mr. Galloway, are you there?
http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/10/wages-of-sin.html
Daithí Mac Lochlainn