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Government

Oct. 2, 2003

1980's Law That Targets Leaks Rarely Leads to Prosecutions

WASHINGTON - If Bush administration officials are found to have leaked the identity of a CIA operative married to a prominent Bush critic, they may be in violation of a rarely used law enacted in the early 1980s to halt the wholesale outing of agents by people opposed to the intelligence agency's operations.

By Brent Kendall
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - If Bush administration officials are found to have leaked the identity of a CIA operative married to a prominent Bush critic, they may be in violation ...

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