The leakers of the Plame info (assuming--BIG IF--this was even a leak) also could be styled as a whistleblower.
The crime against the nation was that a CIA officer used her public position of trust to recommend her husband, a partisan and stoopid political hack, for a mission of importance to national security, knowing and planning for him to misuse his position to attack and undermine the President during a time of war.
According to the NYS, that is not whistleblowing HOW?
See, the thing for the Rats is that it ALL DEPENDS ON YOUR INTENTIONS. And THEY get to decide WHICH INTENTIONS are worthy.
The "New York Times" and "Newsweek" are not monolithic faceless alien oracles.
They are run by the the likes of the leftist homosexual on the right, ARTHUR SULZBERGER JR. and the socialist crook on the left DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post.
Every day these 2 enemies of the state unleash a horde of minor league propagandists on the American psyche in a blatant attempt to topple any GOP governement that is elected by the American people.
2006 is the year they will be stopped.
They will no longer be able to hide unde a cloak of annonymity.
They will be exposed and their names equated with treacherous acts.
They and their komrades will be surveilled and brought up on charges.
OFFICERS
Chairman Emeritus: Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger, age 71, $1,397,200 pay (prior to title change)
Chairman; Publisher, The New York Times: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., age 46, $960,200 pay (prior to promotion)
VC and SVP: Michael Golden, age 48
President and CEO: Russell T. Lewis, age 50, $882,235 pay (prior to promotion)
SVP Operations and Acting CFO: John M. O'Brien, age 54
SVP and Deputy COO: David L. Gorham, $796,000 pay