Nick Juliano, Raw Story
A Senate committee is seeking tougher penalties for government officials who knowingly release the identity of undercover intelligence agents, in an apparent reaction to controversy in recent years over officials in the Bush administration disclosing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Wilson.
The Intelligence Authorization Act would increase the maximum penalty for outing a covert agent from 10 to 15 years for government officials who have “authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent,” according to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report accompanying the bill. Penalties for officials who learn an agent’s identity then disclose as a result of their access to classified information would increase from five to 10 years.
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I’m sure all the Bushies are just quaking in their boots. “They’re going to enact another law for us to break, yippee!!”
Bush’s strategy: Break more laws.
Democratic Strategy: Make more laws for Bush to break.