>>>>I am happy to defend the rule of law.
>>>>If the law has been broken then let the accused face trial. As I said, if Libby is convicted then he should rightly be punished. If Bush or Cheney broke the law then they too should be prosecuted. In this case the prosecutor and his team have looked into this case for 2 years and were unable to come up with a single indictment regarding the release of classified information. Guess what, there's no crime there.
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>>>So if it wasn't classified at all, why didn't they say so two years ago? Took them two years to remember it was declassified?
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>>>C'mon.
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>>The memo where it's believed the White House learned Plame's name was not declassified until, I believe, this month. As for why it took so long, I have no idea. We can speculate all we want but we do not prosecute based on speculation.
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>So if it was just recently declassified (is it the same as "made public"?), then it was still a against the law to disclose it before that, ergo prosecutable. Or is there some higher wisdom in this, infathomable for us mortals?

There are 2 different items here.
1) The de-classification of information in the NIE which was done years ago to push back against Joe Wilson's claims.

2) The recent de-classification of the memo which mentions Plame's name which is believed by the prosecutor to be how the White House learned of her.