Investigation of Intelligence Leak

By Cynthia Kirk

Broadcast: October 11, 2003

This is Bob Doughty¹ with In the News, from VOA Special English.
Officials are investigating who in the Bush administration identified an American intelligence agent to a news reporter. The Justice Department launched the investigation². The department acted at the request of the director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet.
The agent is the wife of a former American ambassador, Joseph Wilson. Mister Wilson once served as acting³ ambassador in Baghdad. He has criticized the administration's case for war in Iraq. He says the identification of his wife as a C-I-A officer was punishment for his 1)dissent⁴.
In February two-thousand-two, the Central Intelligence Agency sent Joseph Wilson to Niger. He went to investigate a British intelligence report that Iraqi officials were trying to buy 2)uranium in Africa for use in nuclear weapons.
Mister Wilson says he found nothing to confirm the claim. He said he was surprised when President Bush spoke⁵ of the British report in his State of the Union speech this past January. The president included it as part of the argument for war to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction.
In July, Mister Wilson disputed the claim. Administration officials later said the decision to include the sentence in the State of the Union speech was a mistake.
Then, one week later, reporter and political 3)commentator⁶ Robert Novak published the name of Mister Wilson's wife. Mister Novak said two high-level administration officials had identified her as working for the C-I-A. He has refused to identify the officials.
Mister Wilson has accused Karl Rove of urging reporters to spread the story once his wife's identity was released. Mister Rove is the president's top political adviser⁷. This week, Democratic Congressman⁸ John Conyers urged Mister Rove to resign. A White House spokesman said Mister Rove denies any 4)involvement.
The spokesman said he had also asked two other officials about the case and they too said they had not been involved. The others were the vice⁹ president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and Elliot Abrams, an official of the National Security Council.
White House employees were told to provide e-mail records and other materials that might be used in the investigation.
Democratic and Republican members of Congress welcomed the Justice Department investigation into the leak of secret information. But some Democratic senators want an independent investigator¹⁰. They say the Justice Department is too closely linked to the administration to be fair.
President Bush said this week that he has told White House officials to cooperate fully¹¹ with the investigation. He said he wants to know the truth. But he also said he has no idea whether the person who leaked the information will ever be found.
In the News, from VOA Special English, was written by Cynthia Kirk. This is Bob Doughty.

注释：
1) dissent [ di5sent ] v.不同意
2) uranium [ juE5reiniEm ] n.铀
3) commentator [ 5kCmenteitE ] 评论员, 讲解员
4) involvement [ in5vClvmEnt ] n.连累, 牵连

1 doughty   

adj.勇猛的，坚强的

参考例句：

• Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质：脾气倔强，性格刚强。
• The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 dissent   

n./v.不同意，持异议

参考例句：

• It is too late now to make any dissent.现在提出异议太晚了。
• He felt her shoulders gave a wriggle of dissent.他感到她的肩膀因为不同意而动了一下。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

7 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

8 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

9 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

10 investigator   

n.研究者，调查者，审查者

参考例句：

• He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
• The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。

11 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。