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...discredit Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, who wrote a 2003 op-ed piece debunking WMD justifications for the Iraq war. But while outing a CIA agent can be illegal, neither Libby nor anyone else was actually charged with doing that to Plame. In fact, pre-trial maneuvering found the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, insisting that this was not a case about a leak and fighting defense requests for documents about whether Plame was ever a covert agent, a status that could have made intentionally leaking her identity a crime...
...discredit Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, who wrote a 2003 op-ed piece debunking WMD justifications for the Iraq war. But while outing a CIA agent can be illegal, neither Libby nor anyone else was actually charged with doing that to Plame. In fact, pre-trial maneuvering found the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, insisting that this was not a case about a leak and fighting defense requests for documents about whether Plame was ever a covert agent, a status that could have made intentionally leaking her identity a crime...
...Thanks to Fitzgerald's brief advocating a stiff sentence for Libby, we found out last week that the CIA did indeed consider Plame's identity classified, at least for 18 months. The prosecutor has brought this up now in apparent support of a remarkable claim: Libby should serve 30 to 37 months in prison-about twice what the federal probation office recommends and way more than the probation favored by the defense-because the underlying (and uncharged) crime was so serious...
...crime that may never have happened - and that at one point the prosecutor argued was largely irrelevant to the case - now increase a criminal sentence...
...Aliyev has other enemy in-laws. His wife's sister and her husband are rivals for power within the family as well. As for now, however, the all-powerful father-in-law has had Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General's Office close down several print, broadcast and online outlets of the media-holding company controlled by Aliyev and Dariga. That vast empire will be now redistributed among the President's supporters. The police searched Dariga's house, in spite of her immunity as a member of parliament. "Getting rid of Aliyev is good news," says one analyst in Kazakhstan...