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Thread #82879   Message #1522407
Posted By: GUEST,petr
15-Jul-05 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Karl Rove a Big Fat Liar???
Subject: RE: BS: Is Karl Rove a Big Fat Liar???
oh yeah well..
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/15/dean.rove/

the leak prosecution precedent
the bush administrations strategy for punishing those who leak may be coming back to bite it on the ass..

In 2002 Jonathan Randel working for the DEA, leaked the fact that Lord Ashcrofts name was in the DEA files, Ashcroft sued and found the source of the leak was Randel and they threw the kitchen sink at him. Facing Potentially 500 years in jail, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail, plus 3probation.

the precedent does not bode well for Rove, whose leak is far more damaging than Randels.