[Tallguy]

"Well I think this is far more serious than Valerie Plame," Mr. Rizzo said after a breakfast speech. "That was clearly illegal, outing a covert officer. I am not downplaying that. But this is far more serious."

Of course it is. These agents were ACTUAL covert field agents -- not a former agent who was never going to return to the field. But hey! Competence is not expected from liberals! So nothing will come from this.

[mojito]

“U.S. officials close to the CIA-Justice probe said photographs of the CIA officers were found last year in the cell of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, an alleged financier of the Sept. 11 plot. Officials said the photographs appeared to have been taken by private investigators for the John Adams Project, which is jointly backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.”

[....]

“Mr. Rizzo said the photos “were pictures of agency people, some of which were captured paparazzi-style, clearly taken in a kind of surveillance mode.”

[K-oneTexas]

Right. Plame was a former. Plame was a desk jockey. Plame was important only in her own mind.

The Plame Episode was a non-started and a gust of hot air. This however put American lives at risk. The defense attorneys should be prosecuted and spend 10-20 behind bars plus lose their law license.