Good Bye Yellow Brick Rove…

Laws for which Karl Rove should be place under the scrutiny of a grand jury:
(It is also important to note that he is completely innocent until proven guilty)

I. The Espionage Act of 1917: It prescribed a $10,000 fine and 20 years' imprisonment for interfering with the recruiting of troops or the disclosure of information dealing with national defense. Additional penalties were included for the refusal to perform military duty. Over the next few months around 900 went to prison under the Espionage Act.

II. U.S. Code as of: 01/22/02
Section 421. Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents, informants, and sources

(a) Disclosure of information by persons having or having hadaccess to classified information that identifies covert agentWhoever, having or having had authorized access to classifiedinformation that identifies a covert agent, intentionally disclosesany information identifying such covert agent to any individual notauthorized to receive classified information, knowing that theinformation disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that theUnited States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covertagent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall befined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, orboth.

(b) Disclosure of information by persons who learn identity ofcovert agents as result of having access to classifiedinformationWhoever, as a result of having authorized access to classifiedinformation, learns the identify of a covert agent andintentionally discloses any information identifying such covertagent to any individual not authorized to receive classifiedinformation, knowing that the information disclosed so identifiessuch covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmativemeasures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationshipto the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisonednot more than five years, or both.

(c) Disclosure of information by persons in course of pattern ofactivities intended to identify and expose covert agentsWhoever, in the course of a pattern of activities intended toidentify and expose covert agents and with reason to believe thatsuch activities would impair or impede the foreign intelligenceactivities of the United States, discloses any information thatidentifies an individual as a covert agent to any individual notauthorized to receive classified information, knowing that theinformation disclosed so identifies such individual and that theUnited States is taking affirmative measures to conceal suchindividual's classified intelligence relationship to the UnitedStates, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more thanthree years, or both.

(d) Imposition of consecutive sentencesA term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall beconsecutive to any other sentence of imprisonment.