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Mike Allen and Dana Priest: "Bush administration is focus of inquiry; CIA Agents identity was leaked to media".


The Washington Post September 28,2003

In this story and several others by Allen which followed it, Allen and Priest revealed that the C A had asked the Justice Department to investigate which White House sources reported the identity of CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency.


(1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy).
 agent Valerie Plame Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame 19 April 1963, in Anchorage, Alaska), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson  to syndicated columnist Inc.com defines a syndicated columnist as, "[A] person hired by publications or broadcast organizations to produce written or spoken commentary about specific feature subjects.  Robert Novak Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative American political commentator. Over his career, Bob Novak has become well-known as a columnist (writing "Inside Report" since 1963) and as a television personality (appearing on many shows for CNN, most notably  in retribution for Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson Joseph Wilson or Joe Wilson may refer to:

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, accusing the administration or over selling the link between Iraq and third would nuclear merchants. The piece, ground-breaking and deep, built upon an investigation into a story most of Washington's back journalists had given up on. It prompted a string of editorials from news outlets around the country calling for an independent investigation into the Plame affair The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal or the CIA leak case) is a political controversy in the United States, involving high-level officials of the George W. . But all of this prompts a vexing question: Why did it take Allen and Priest's story to spur all those eager editorialists into action ? The only Hew information their story uncovered was the Justice Department investigation. The facts of the case had been made public months before.

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Title Annotation:The Washington Monthly's Monthly Journalism Award
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Date:Nov 1, 2003
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