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yali writes "As the heat turns up on the investigation into how an undercover CIA officer's identity was leaked to the press a technology columnist at the SF Chronicle, David Lazarus, shows how easy it is to identify individuals via the Internet. Even with little information, using widely available tools like Google and LexisNexis, it is possible to turn up startlingly relevant details." From the article: "I then went back to Google and got a map of Plame's neighborhood and directions to her home. Google also allowed me to study a high-resolution satellite photo of Plame's house. I could see that the property appears to be in a quiet residential community and looks approachable from all sides. It also offers ready access by car to major thoroughfares."
Isn't there already one reporter jailed over this story?
Does David Lazarus want a big can of Patriot-Act whoop-ass to come down on him or what?
I'm a big tall mofo.
They already do. It's called Fox News...
--- Pork is not a verb.
OK, let's say it again slowly for the stupid ones in the bleacher seats.
1) she wasn't Secret Squirrel. She was an officer that worked at LANGLEY. You know, the HQ of the CIA? Know a lot of non-CIA employees that work there do you?
2) the law states that she has to have been a covert operative within the last 5 years. I gather she was employed with a 'cover' 9 years ago.
3) the law states that Rove needs to reveal her identity with intent to expose her - it's a huge stretch to suggest that the identification that was made was an intent to reveal.
Please, the Libocrats are so busy building strawmen on this one, they seem to have lost what little reason they evidently had left. Everyone from the news organizations that were looking for this information, to the lawyer that drafted the law being referred to: they all say no crime was committed.
People, read the freaking law. Stop parroting talking points from Moveon.org, it just makes you look stupid(er).
-Styopa
You have zero creditability talking about "Talking Points" while linking to a site that is named "Talking Points" to refute it. Thanks for playing though!
0 .html), Also She was not undercover: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050715-121257- 9887r.htm and was making no effort to keep her job secret:s ns-ap-cia-leak-rove,0,4798469,print.story?coll=nyc -nationhome-headlines
(BTW, Rove did not know she was undercover. He got the name from Novak: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050715/D8BBQEVO
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/
Of note, even her husband (the cause of all of this) says that she was not under cover or covert at the time her (rather well-known) identity was observed by reporters and mentioned to Rove. This whole thing is being squawked about (by political opponents) as if exactly the opposite of what really happened happened. And, of course, where were these people when someone like Clinton's former cabinet member and handyman Sandy Berger was stuffing classified documents in his socks while that team was trying to spin the discovery process under way as the 9/11 commission looked into why Al Qeada had such operational latitude in the years prior to the attacks. Point is, all of this "Rove should be fired" stuff is just silly, and so plainly partisan (they hate him - he's very good at his job) that it's rather embarassaing, actually.
And yes - you're right about the huge number of people that spend their days in northern Virginia and elsewhere, doing the most mundane things imaginable. Hell, they don't even get paid all that well.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Dr. B W Jones
born around 1969 to 1971
Wrote a dissertation with a title I'm not even going to try and type here
Your street address begins with a K and the house number ends with an 8
Your phone number ends with a 6
Should I continue?
The same way I was able to get your personal home address/phone number is the same method that that this journalist used to discover the identity of the wife on one mere fact. That his wife works for the CIA - In what capacity? That's irrelevant. The entire purpose of this article is to show how easy it is to discover anything, about anyone, on the net with very little information to begin with.
who do these moderators think they are that they can try to silence people who present unpopular facts?
how long have you been around here? this is slashdot. the left is seething with hatred. ever read kos? the people there are freaking lunatics. there's no sense of sanity or mental stability. period. wilson is a liar and a fraud. he lied about his report, who sent him, and what he found. he did so to score political points. rememebr, he was the hero of the kerry campaing until he was discovered as a fraud and a hack. remember his website restorehonesty.com? yeah, it was hosted on kerry's site, until the senate testimony, then it was hosed and redirected to kerry's site. click on the link and see where it takes you. surprise surprise. it takes you to johnkerry.com.
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restorehonesty.com:
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it doesn't lie.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.