Cia Leak
Cia Leak
A 1982 law makes knowingly disclosing the identity of a covert agent a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.The CIA leak investigation in Washington goes back to a timeline of events that began in 2002. In 2002, diplomat Joseph C. Wilson visited Niger in order to investigate intelligence claims that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was attempting to buy uranium from Niger. Now an investigation is undercover as to who leaked the identity of Wilsons wife, Valeria Plame, an undercover CIA officer, to the press. To make matters even worse, two powerful administration figures are under suspicion.
On January 28, President Bush announces to the nations in his State of the Union speech that, “The British government has recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” In July, few months after the fall of Baghdad, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson writes in The New York Times that he investigated the Niger uranium report for the