[UncleJeff]

If your scenario is correct (and I am not doubting it) then the "enforcers" were stupid enough to be baited into committing one or more felonies and potentially endangering intelligence assets during war for petty political gain, and richly deserve to go to jail, and since Ashcroft is against anybody getting anything less than the max that means 10 years.

[aristeides]

Whoever it was didn't just expose individuals, he revealed a source and/or method.

[cyncooper]

potentially endangering intelligence assets during war for petty political gain

Just who are you referring to as an "intelligence asset"? Valerie Plame, whose husband was busy writing anti-war diatribes in "The Nation" on the eve of war? That asset?

And while I'm on the subject, why didn't Wilson bother to include in his "Nation" piece that was written about two weeks after the State of the Union Address any concerns he had about what he'd "found" (or not) in Niger and the president's speech? Hm?

Oh, and when Wilson was a guest of Bill Moyers at the end of February---again, after the SOTU speech, is Wilson agreeing that Saddam has WMD, but his disagreement is with war and Wilson was arguing for "containment" and accusing Bush of Empire building.

Now, I wonder about "intelligence assets" married to such and just where their loyalties lie.