Bill Bennett has a great article in NRO in which he discusses the "outing" of Plame who wasn't even covert and whose identity was widely known by many reporters. He compares this situation (in which it has been confirmed by Fitzgerald that NOBODY deliberately outed any covert agent) with the VERY serious leak of classified information to the world in the CIA incident. Who's going to investigate the Washington Post and track down a CIA leaker who has deliberately and with malice aforethought seriously compromised classified military information? Don't hold your breath! Why investigate a high crime when we can hype a class C misdemeanor?
Why investigate a high crime when we can hype a class C misdemeanor?The best lack all conviction; the worst are full of passionate intensity.