[justshutupandtakeit]

See #101.

[kabar]

I know that. He is publicly declared, once you know his name. I watched the hearings from start to finish. The committee members went to great lengths not to mention his real name and cited security reasons. Bolton referred to him as Mr Smith and the other committee members, including Biden, started doing the same thing.

Obviously, the CIA must have recommended to the committee that his name not be mentioned for whatever reason. Kerry made a mistake by mentioning his real name. I think Kerry should be called to task for his mistake in much the same way he critized Bush over the Pflame affair. Pflame was not in a covert status when Novak published her name.

[Txsleuth]

I will back up kabar completely on this--

I watched the whole hearing and I think kabar and I posted exactly the same thing at the same time---

Do you not think it is possible that a known political figure could also be doing "unknown" covert jobs that, if known could endanger his life? I would think that anyone that has an "in" in Latin America, would be a good source for information from other departments of government.

Why would this person be referred to as Mr. Smith during the whole testimony, be called a different name by Kerry, and then IMMEDIATELY be referred to again as Mr. Smith by Bolton?

[self_evident]

Source of the fued?

I'm still very skeptical about whether this has security implications and agree with justshutupandtakeit that it needs investigation before action.