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Could the people who exposed Valerie Plame be prosecuted under the Patriot Act?

Newsday.com - Spy Leak May Violate Patriot Act:
"Section 802 of the act defines, in part, domestic terrorism as 'acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state' that 'appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.'

Clearly, disclosing the identity of a CIA undercover agent is an act dangerous to life - the lives of the agent and her contacts abroad whom terrorists groups can now trace - and a violation of the criminal laws of the United States."

The article is by Sam Dash, who was chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973-74.

Not that this is ever going to happen under Lord Protector Ashcroft, but it's an interesting idea. The whole article is worth a read.