[Mb-civic] Questions Remain on the Leaker and the Law - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Questions Remain on the Leaker and the Law

Rove's Talks With Time Writer May Be a Focus

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A02

The jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Wednesday put 
the issue of press freedom and the confidentiality of sources on front 
pages across the country, but the heart of the case remains what it has 
been from the outset: whether senior Bush officials broke the law in the 
disclosure of a CIA covert operative's identity.

Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has spent the better part of 
two years trying to answer that question, in a case that grew out of the 
angry debate over whether President Bush and his advisers hyped or 
falsified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify 
going to war with Iraq in the spring of 2003. At issue is whether 
administration officials misused classified information to try to 
discredit one of their potentially most damaging critics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070702215.html
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