"No one in the Bush administration has been stripped of security clearances over the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to reporters three years ago.
In a letter to Senator Frank Lautenberg, the Central Intelligence Agency said it had no record of anyone in the administration who is no longer privy to the most sensitive US secrets because of the Plame leak.
The CIA also disclosed it has not yet completed a formal assessment of the damage to national security that may have been caused by Plame's outing in 2003.
The assessment won't be completed until a criminal investigation of the leak has been concluded, Christopher J Walker, the CIA's director of congressional affairs, said in the July 19, 2006 letter to Lautenberg.
For more than a year, Lautenberg and other Democrats have been calling on President George W Bush to fire presidential adviser Karl Rove and any other aides who discussed Plame's CIA status with reporters -- or, at the least, to revoke their security clearances. ..."
Nice .. not like we wanna punish people for leaking sensistive info or anything!
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