[Nachum]

Added to the list, ping

[MrB]

democRats will betray their country for personal gain every time they’re given the opportunity.

[Don Corleone]

Bambi knows what he is doing! He is doing it deliberately! It is TREASON!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

There will be worse done than that over the next four years....and it’ll be up to the NEXT GOP President to clean up the mess this dangerous poser is leaving behind him on a DAILY basis.

America cleaned up after Carter & Clinton and we certainly reaped what THEY sewed. :(

We’re so screwed.

[Captain Beyond]

Bump

[SpaceBar]

So what are they going to do about it besides complain and stomp their feet?

[jackv]

Have the American people finally woken up????

[kromike]

Not the first time, won't be the last. MaoBama knows he's naive and doesn't care.

GOP, WHERE ARE YOU? THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING.

[william clark]

[LearsFool]

we’ve crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage

For some, that's not a tradeoff... It's killing two birds with one stone.

Job well done, Comrade Obama. Take the rest of the day off, why don't ya.

[silverleaf]

Probably not the first time a hack like Rockefeller or Leahy leaked security information for his own partisan reasons...by a long shot... but maybe the first time by an american president, going against the advice of everyone except...??????

and in his first 100 days of office

(who in his closet cabinet did urge him to do this??)

[Melchior]

Porter Goss is a serious man, and a patriot. His is an hones appraisal, and it should scare all Americans.

[Velveeta]

I think many higher-ups will be joining the ‘release the birth certificate’ chorus.

[Jo Nuvark]

It is not good to anger the CIA.

[alloysteel]

Well, no, not for the first time. Back in the days of the Carter Administration, Frank Church was effectively castrating ALL the intelligence agencies, by forbidding the use of “tainted” sources, like suspected “double agents” and persons of no fixed address. Well, DUH, nobody knew anything for years, except for the occasional defector. And only the Chinese knew anythibg for sure.

[RobinOfKingston]

“For the first time in my experience we’ve crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage,” Goss said in an interview.

Are we getting into "high crimes and misdemeanors" territory yet? I think so. Jon Roland probably thinks so, also. http://www.constitution.org/cmt/high_crimes.htm

[mojito]

Money quote:

“You can imagine what it would have looked like, if on a sensitive intelligence matter involving the CIA and this controversy, if we sent Karl Rove out to do this briefing. And that’s in effect what’s happened here,” says a high-ranking official from the Bush White House. “And I assume that’s because they saw it primarily as a political issue – because it’s being debated inside as a political issue –because it’s about appeasing the left, whose support they sought during the campaign. And Axelrod is more of an expert on that crowd that anybody else. It also says to me he was in all the meetings where they were debating this question – whether or not Obama had better go forward with some kind of investigation.”