Goss says CIA Plame leak not worthy of committee action
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 03:40AM
TheSpook
Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the uproar
over allegations that White House officials purposely identified a
covert CIA agent appears largely political and doesn't yet merit an
investigation by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, which he
chairs. Goss, who was a CIA agent himself from the early 1960s to 1971,
said he takes such leaks seriously, but he distinguished between a
willful violation of federal law and an inadvertent disclosure. [more ]
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