Disclosure of a two-bit nothin' Valerie Plame's name

[seemslikeadream]

doesn't compare to the leaking of this NSA spying

so says Grassley

[maddezmom]

1. please tell me that is not an actual quote?

:wow:

Seems to me both were against the law.

[emulatorloo]

3. actual quote

[LynnTheDem]

2. Plame was an undercover agent. Outing her = treason.

Illegally spying on Americans is a federal crime; the USC calls for impeachment.

I'd say both are very serious crimes.

[JDPriestly]

4. Because wiretapping without a warrant is a crime,

a person with knowledge of that crime is doing a service by reporting it. Plame was not committing a crime, therefore it was against the law to out her.

What is so difficult about figuring that out?

[LynnTheDem]

5. It's a CRIME to conceal knowledge of a crime. It's a CRIME to out

a NOC.

But hey, that's way too difficult for rightwingnuts to understand.