This is why it is bad to out an intelligence officer.

Post #247,622 by Simon_Jester 3/12/06 8:22:27 AM Reply	This is why it is bad to out an intelligence officer. They wanted to get Plame...but now, in effect, they've outted everyone who's EVER used that company as a cover (put anyone who's innocent and worked there in the line of fire). What's funny about this - is given the timing (Libby just got approval to get those classified documents), I think someone (not in Libby's camp) leaked this to the press. The (cough) smart foreign-intelligence officers have already looked at this info when it first came out. I wonder how much intelligence has been compromised and how many other agents we've lost.
Post #247,667 by JayMehaffey 3/12/06 5:35:42 PM Reply	No way to really know Nothing has been specifically said of course, but I've seen articles that reference unnamed CIA sources that say it seriously damaged our nuclear monitering work and in particular cut off almost all of the little hard information they had on Iran's nuclear program. However, that may be something of an exaggeration by officals upset at Bush. This White House has royally pissed off the CIA in several different ways. Jay
Post #247,725 by ben_tilly 3/13/06 12:35:29 PM Reply	But now you have to ask why it was leaked to the press One reason that is plausible is that it is some CIA officer knew that people's cover was blown but couldn't get higher-ups to listen to it. So leak the story, and now the higher-ups can't ignore it. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #247,746 by Simon_Jester 3/13/06 2:02:02 PM Reply	When....the first time or this latest one? I think the first one was retaliatory in nature. The second, I think, is based on a mitgating damage approach. (See, everyone knew she worked for the CIA, it's not our fault that we blew her cover.) Note that they're getting a lot of other people in this second one. Your theory is plausable as well. One advantage your theory has (over my primary theory above) is that it explains the broad based approach as well. (It is possible that this is merely a coincidence. That someone simply started looking around the net and starting finding other people that could be agents.)
Post #247,809 by drewk 3/13/06 7:05:30 PM Reply	Little of both The first was retaiatory, like you said. The second was Ben's point: once Plame was out, someone knew it would out a bunch of other people, and no one wanted to hear it. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]

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