Treason

In the mid 20th Century revealing the identities of one of our undercover intelligence agents was made a capital crime conmensurate with treason.

Fast foward to our present administration and the Plame debacle.

For reasons based on partisan politics a CIA operatives name was leaked to the press in an attempt to undermine her spouses criticism of our incursion in Iraq.
In the process the leak exposed the name of the company that provided the false cover background operatives require for their safety in the field. That in turn exposed all the operatives in the field who were using that company for their cover.

This isn't just about one lone operative.

Think aboout this, anyone else who had their cover blown just had to run for home because someone in the current administration used a ham fisted ill concieved method to smack down a critic of their policy.

But beyond that, the individual or individuals responsible for the leak are getting away with treason.

I guess it's just one more sad example of how well the current administration upholds the laws and constitution of our country. It reminds me of the OJ trial. In personal crimes: got enough money, doesn't make the 'little guy' think he can pull a fast one? You go free. Violate federal law but you're a personal friend of someone at the top of the tree, no problem, you'll be taken care of...

If nothing else I would have hoped that they had a bit more depth of thought on the consequences of their actions.
Today Ms. Plame is testifying before Congress, but will her words bring the culprit(s) to justice?

It seemed pretty clear that the federal prosecutors probe pointed squarely at the WH and more importantly to people in the inner circle. If you were really serious about getting rid of a traitor and you couldn't refine the search beyond three individuals then logic says you remove those three from critical posts if nothing else.

When the current administration ran on the idea that they would be the CEO Administration who knew they meant CEO's like those of WorldCom and Enron?

ps. The excuse being circulated goes that all these people 'knew she was cia, but they didn't know she was undercover'.

Fine, if you want to tell the world you operate in a vacuum and that you can't employ simple logic, go with that story.

So you have us posit that your IQ falls in the 70 to 80 point range. You know that she's with the cia and that doesn't fire a synapse and tell you maybe you should check her status before you blab it to the world? If that didn't happen then you seriously need to hire people better able to think things through to oversee all your command decisions!