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Even if no laws are broken, do you think it's okay to reveal the name of a covert agent?
Ex-CIA agent Valery Plame sued US Vice President Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush's former top advisor Karl Rove, and a third former White House official for conspiring to expose her secret identity.
Plame and her husband, US former diplomat Joseph Wilson, charged in the lawsuit filed in Washington that Cheney, his former aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and Rove violated their rights when they conspired to leak her work as a Central Intelligence Agency undercover operative to the press in order to strike out at Wilson for clashing with the Bush administration over the Iraq war.
"Those officials sought to punish Mr. Wilson for his public statements regarding assertions by the president of the United States in the 2003 State of the Union address that he used to justify war against Iraq," said the lawsuit, which lists 10 other unnamed defendants as "John Does".
12 Answers
- StuartLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Why on earth would you endanger someone's life and compromise national security just to be able so brag about knowing a secret?
Pfffft.
- Stuart
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Covert is the word. Plaim was a Dem operative not a covert CIA agent
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No-but has to really be a covert agent and not an office staff person like Valerie.
And since her husband was the one who "outed" her I think he should have been the one to pay the price instead of getting money to write a book.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No,
As a covert agent we do not know their past history and we really don't need to either! Their Identity should be kept secret, unless you belong to the Bush administration wanting to get revenge!
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- Live Free or DieLv 41 decade ago
Absolutely not. These are men who have laid their lives on the line to protect this country. Many of them have families who could be targeted by the opposition. Revealing their identities is almost writing them a death sentence. Doing this is a violation of their contract and it is very unpatriotic and un-American. It pisses me off that this is even up for discussion in D.C.
- tacotorchLv 41 decade ago
Not if he is on your side, now if its a double agent its ok or if he is working for the enemy and you found out, it would be ok, but never ever rat your own guys out.
- bigjohn BLv 71 decade ago
VP Cheney outed a CIA agent and was never brought to justice. Valerie had a cover as a desk agent but that was her cover, she was a covert agent. The Publicans used that nonsense to avoid responsibility.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
no.
then they are no longer covert.
that'd be like trying to stay in the shadows while holding a road-flare, it's completely pointless.
- wayfaroutthereLv 71 decade ago
Only if you have a good reason to. Being a political opponent in the same government isn't a good reason.
