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This summer, Robert Novak published the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative. Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, is a former U.S. envoy to Iraq who had publicly criticized the President for falsely claiming that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from Niger...
Novak’s July 14 column about Wilson states that Plame was “an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction,” and that he had learned this information from two “senior White House officials.” A White House official told the Washington Post last Sunday that the pair had tried to leak the information to several journalists. “Clearly,” the official told the Post, “it was meant purely and simply for revenge...
...leaked information, and his decision to blow Plame’s cover is reprehensible. But if the charges are true, the administration officials who knowingly exposed a CIA operative, and any others in the White House that were complicit in the leak, deserve the heaviest opprobrium. Identifying Plame would not only be a federal crime: under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act it would be treason. As Wilson himself has said, “Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career...
There is always a danger that the obvious importance of English literature, like that of American history will induce neglect of writings in other languages, or on other parts of the political world. But nothing is plame than that Englishmen have always been influenced very greatly by Kahan writers, and that an acquaintance with Italian literature is an essential back ground to a full appreciation of that of Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when...