Glenn Reynolds' comment on the latest Plame news:
Regardless, given the many obviously more damaging leaks that no one seems to care about, I'm finding it hard to get excited about this one.Leaking the identity of a covert operative working on nuclear proliferation and Iran (you remember them--crazy fanatical Muslim jihadi types who have to be bombed before they get The Bomb? Yeah, that Iran)? No damage there:
Intelligence sources would not identify the specifics of Plame's work. They did, however, tell RAW STORY that her outing resulted in "severe" damage to her team and significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor nuclear proliferation.So given the real damage from the Plame leak, you ask, what sort of leaks would be 'more damaging' than that?
Simple: any leak of information that makes the Bush administration look bad.
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