While I would love to see that, I don't know how an administration fights back against anonymous leaks. Especially one which had an event like 9/11 just a few months after taking office. After that, battle lines were drawn and secret agendas were sprouting all over the agency. Just look at how Able Danger is being treated in the media. Even the supposedly independent Sept. 11 panel was compromised...to the point that a former Nat'l Security Advisor was caught sneaking classified docs out of the Archives.
No, I'm afraid the media's treatment of the Plame affair is strengthening the Agency's grip on foreign policy. Who will dare take them on in future if WH figures are indicted? Scary stuff.
"Who will dare take them on in future if WH figures are indicted? Scary stuff."
Scary indeed. It short circuits democracy. I wonder to what degree it is true.
In such a scenario, if I were the Pres., I would have no compunction about locating the transgressors and killing them.