I suggest the informant be very, very careful. Unlike Ron Brown, Vince Foster, Peter W. Smith, Berta Caceres, and on.
I would be worried if the informant was managed by anyone else.
Victoria Toensing is, I'm sure, well aware of the dangers and has taken necessary steps to protect him.
Bits and pieces that I've gathered from various sources:
Victoria ToensingIn 1981, Toensing became chief counsel to Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where she helped draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.
In 1984, she joined the Reagan administration as a deputy assistant attorney general, where she headed the "Terrorism Unit", the first working group in the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute terrorism-related crimes.
As part of her work in the Department of Justice (DoJ), Toensing managed the government's legal efforts during the terrorist hijacking of TWA Flight 847, the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
She also supervised savings and loan fraud cases, prosecuted nuclear industry regulation cases, securities fraud, and fraud and bribery in the banking industry.
In March 2005 Toensing submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller, two journalists who were subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame investigation for refusing to reveal information obtained from confidential sources.
In the brief, she "argued that the law couldn't have been broken when Valerie Plame's cover as a CIA agent was blown because her status wasn't really covert."
She also contended that Ms. Plame did not have a cover to be blown, citing a July 23, 2004, article in the Washington Times which argued that Valerie Plame's status as an undercover CIA agent may have been known to Russian and Cuban intelligence operations prior to the article (by Robert Novak) that revealed her status as a CIA employee.
In 1988, she entered private practice.