... Little loaves and fishes

[pecunium]

I have no time to make commentary on this, though it speaks for itself, and what it says isn't pretty.

Harry Reid just introduced an amendment to the homeland security appropriations that would prevent anyone who discloses the identity of a covert CIA operative from having a security clearance. There will be 90 minutes of debate, and then a vote.

Here is the text of the so-called 'Frist Amendment': "Any federal officeholder who makes reference to a classified Federal Bureau of Investigation report on the floor of the United States Senate, or any federal officeholder that makes a statement based on a FBI agent's comments which is used as propaganda by terrorist organizations thereby putting our servicemen and women at risk, shall not be permitted access to such information or to hold a security clearance for access to such information."


(from Talking Points Memo).

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[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

And here I am watching conservatives decipher whether Valerie ever was a covert agent under statute. Of course, a perfect execution would not leave any evidence for independent verification....

[Frist Amendment]
And what happens if the same information appears in both classified and unclasssified reports? One or two mathematicians a year trip up on this in the U.S.