[Steve_Seattle]

This piece should appear on every op-ed page in the country. Obsessed with the hope of bringing down Bush in a Watergate-type scandal, the press is looking right past the real story: why Wilson was sent to Africa, and what that says about the current state of the CIA.

[Gorjus]

. . . the press is looking right past the real story . . .

Ain't it the truth! Here is a bona fide, 4th Estate, watchdog role - a government agency that is just not doing its job. It's even a valid dig at Bush, because ultimately he is responsible for that failure. If someone had 'leaked' the basic out-of-control nature of the CIA to the liberal press, that person would have been hailed as a 'whistleblower' (not protected as a source, because the facts are so undeniable that retaliation against the 'leaker' would have been political suicide) and it would have been front pages for weeks. "Two years after 9/11 and still the CIA isn't protecting us!"

But all they see is politics, and the shortest route to Bush was through the unnamed Senior Administration Official - even though their own secrecy is the only reason that leak goes unpunished!