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...That is willful. And it seems to me there ought to be a penalty for that." McCarthy's firing shows that Goss is acting on that frustration. "Every person who works at the CIA signs a secrecy agreement," says CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, who declined to identify the leaker. "This individual violated that agreement...
...identify this person who took it upon themselves to illegally leak our nation's secrets. Chairman Hoekstra is fully supportive of any and all efforts to prosecute this person and anyone else who illegally discloses our national secrets." Ware called the rare identification of a leaker "a solid victory in the effort to halt illegal leaks...
...Libby is indeed being honest, and the commander-in-chief was also the “leaker-in-chief,” then Bush chose a dishonorable path to push his agenda. The administration only released information to journalists that it viewed as sympathetic to the president’s goals (such as New York Times reporter Judith Miller), which exemplifies Bush’s desire to manipulate public opinion...
Risen's reporting isn't bulletproof. Like most intelligence reporters, he relies heavily on anonymous sources, and several anecdotes in State of War are attributed to a lone leaker. That makes some of the book's claims difficult to verify, while leaving Risen open to charges that he is being used by partisan ax grinders. Risen, who is contesting a court order to reveal the identities of sources he quoted in a series of disputed articles about the nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, admits that the book requires readers to make a "leap of faith" and accept the credibility...
...charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. New York Times reporter Judith Miller told Fitzgerald's grand jury that Libby told her about Plame, the wife of Joseph Wilson, an outspoken critic of the Administration, as early as June 23, 2003. But last week Woodward introduced another mystery leaker who had identified the CIA connection of Wilson's wife even earlier, in mid-June. Woodward testified that while he didn't believe Plame ever came up in his talks with Libby, he had already heard about her CIA role from a "casual" conversation with another government official in the course...