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...down serial leakers like Philip Agee, a renegade ex--CIA operative who routinely unmasked spies in the 1970s. It is rarely invoked, in part because it was designed to stem not the epidemic of Washington security leaks but a specific and pernicious act: the deliberate revelation of a covert agent's identity...
...convict someone involved in identifying Joseph Wilson's wife, prosecutors would need to prove that the leaker knew she was a covert agent, not just an employee of the CIA. Because of this standard, the law makes it difficult to nail an aide who heard at the water cooler that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee and told that to a reporter. In that case, a defense lawyer might successfully argue that the leaker's motive was not to blow her cover but rather to imply nepotism in Joseph Wilson's assignment to Niger...
...Coetzee almost never gives interviews, so I counted myself very lucky when he granted me an audience in the early 1990s. We met in his office in Cape Town, the novelist a pale and austere presence in his tweeds and corduroys, and I under strict instructions from his agent to avoid questions about the son who fell from a balcony, the ex-wife who died of cancer and the manner in which these private tragedies might have influenced his most recent writings. We were to talk only of literature, but my opening question was greeted by dead silence. Coetzee...
...team did make a few disturbing discoveries, which Bush seized on as sufficient proof that Saddam was "a danger to the world" and that the war was justified. Kay's team discovered a vial hidden in a scientist's home containing a biological agent, as well as evidence that in 2001 Saddam paid $10 million in an effort to buy prohibited missile technology from North Korea. (The equipment was never delivered.) Kay also said an Iraqi scientist had been shot and another Iraqi killed after cooperating with inspectors, although that claim was news to a former official in Iraq...
Kevin A. Platz, an apartment rental agent in Cambridge, said renting a one-bedroom apartment in the Square costs between $1,250 and $1,500 per month...