Journalist Helps Leak CIA Agent’s Name
Re “White House Blasts Accuser in CIA Leak,” Oct. 8: So syndicated columnist Robert Novak received information about the identity of an undercover CIA agent knowing he was being given this information so he would publish it -- and then he did. Sounds like he conspired to break the law and then carried it out himself. This is different from a journalist being told the details of a previously committed crime. Here the journalist is, in fact, the primary perpetrator.
Paul Malykont
Los Osos
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President Bush doubts the Justice Department will be able to find out who leaked the identity of a CIA official. Imagine that.
Jerome Manheim
Long Beach
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