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...operative Valerie Plame, they may now be dependent on reporters to protect their identities. The Administration's critics have accused it of exposing Plame in retaliation for comments by her husband former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that undercut Bush's assertions about Iraq's nuclear capabilities. Divulging an agent's ID knowingly is a federal crime, which is why the FBI is probing the affair. Its agents have interviewed and scoured the e-mails, calendars and phone logs of several dozen White House staff members, including Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove. Now the agency is asking Administration officials...
Ventura’s attorney, David B. Olsen, and his longtime agent, Barry Bloom, did not return The Crimson’s phone calls...
...World Health Organization (WHO) also played politics?as a U.N. body must?but in this case it was in the service of public health. The international laboratory network it established took the lead in identifying the infectious agent. Its communicable-diseases team issued travel advisories that forced governments to take the threat seriously. Local WHO offices forged high-level relations with public-health officials and used SARS to achieve a partial opening of China's health-care and scientific communities. The WHO's political savvy contributed to curtailing the first outbreak...
...investigators looking into the criminal leak of a CIA agent?s identity have asked Bush Administration officials including senior political adviser Karl Rove to release reporters from any confidentiality agreements regarding conversations about the agent. If signed, the single-page requests made over the last week would give investigators new ammunition for questioning reporters who have so far, according to those familiar with the case, not disclosed the names of administration officials who divulged that Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador Joe Wilson, worked...
...with the investigation." But reporters are not likely to feel the same pressure. Journalists rarely divulge the identities of confidential sources even when threatened with contempt citations so the releases may make little difference. Still, in a post-9/11 world, a case involving the disclosure of a covert agent's identity could be taken very seriously by a judge, who would have the power to jail a member of the press for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury...