Gallo, I don't know where you get your information but I do know it's flawed?
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Then I guess he should be shot. Libby was one of three people in the Bush administration who separately leaked the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA operative. The others were Rove and Armitage. They also lied but fessed up before they were brought before the grand jury. What is especially heinous about the leak is the fact that Wilson was a NOC. In other words, she operated without government cover and recruited and handled foreign spies.
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Plame was a CIA employee at the time in question. She worked openly and was not in a covert status. She was never revealed to be covert by anyone of those involved was she? She was revealed as the one who suggested (since confirmed) her husband Wilson for a trip to find out about the Yellow Cake" British intelligence report.. His assignment was highly irregular because he was not affiliated with the CIA and thus not bound by any rules of secrecy.
How can anyone(Libby included)
leak something that is not a secret? Sounds more like gossip to me. IMNSHO the 'railroading' of Libby was politically motivated. I've never seen the record of the specific statments he made in response to the questions but I can only conclude that his word was compared to that of other witnesses and obviouly differed from theirs. Word about whether someone did or did not work for the CIA and what he said about Plame. Was he right or were those others who had different stories right? Above all was it worth the millions of dollars involved to invesitgate gossip?