"The Plame Game: Was This a Crime?" wonders the WaPo, in a guest op-ed contributed by Bruce Sanford and Victoria Toensig. The gist - given the history and intent of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, there may not have been a crime committed by White House aides in the Plame affair.
Maybe this article is driven by a lunar cycle - last December, the Wall Street Journal ran essentially the same piece, with Bruce Sanford and David B. Rivkin, Jr. as authors. Mark Kleiman panned it then, and so did I. Consider the idea that the only crime in question is the Intelligence Identities Protection Act re-panned.
That said, the points they make are similar to the Administration defense I have been suggesting for over a year. I just think this investigation has to play out in all its ghastly spectacle and futility.
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