Plame Leaker Protected By Federal Whistleblower Laws
It appears that the person who allegedly leaked Valerie Plame’s name would be protected by federal whistleblower laws in this circumstance.
As is now known, Valerie Plame lobbied and got her husband the job to go to Niger to investigate claims of getting nuclear material. He had no experience in this matter, produced shotty research, and used it as a platform to try to hatchet the President. The circumstances of his leaving the foreign service are unknown, but he was put in early retirement at 48 (with the minimum age being 50) indicating that his departure was not on good terms.
If an individual leaked to the press that Joseph Wilson got the job to go to Niger because of the influence of his wife, that would constitute an abuse of authority and possible misuse of funds, entitling the person who gave out that information to be protected by federal whistleblower laws. Spouses getting jobs for their husbands or wives is clearly unethical and in some cases illegal, and pointing that out in public entitles the whistleblower to protection.
I am commenting on this post, because of the name of the country NIGER keeps on popping up in the controversial reports on this case.
Actually our uranium was missing and ended up in America and was only recently returned to us.
The war in Iraq is more than meets the eye of the ordinary American on the street.
Most of the people making so much noise on this case know next to nothing about what is really going on. And the most annoying thing is that almost everybody seems to be claiming to know everything. Very funny how everybody in America has become an expert on this case. The whole affair is even turning into a street fight between Republicans and Democrats and those who are neither here nor there.
RESPONSE:
Actually I was thinking not too long ago the same thing the people on both sides that really don’t have the facts and have to rely on other’s reports are certain about what they perceive to be the truth.
Honestly, I have no idea whether or not Saddam tried to get uranium from Niger. I know both the CIA and the UK still says he did, and the Senate hearing on the matter largely confirmed it but certainly proved Wilson to be a liar. In the end, I’m not worried about that claim, but this stunt pulled by Wilson to try to lay the blame on Rove for what appears to be a non-crime.
Comment by OSINACHI | July 17, 2005