"the gravity of the reported crime" and invoking "national security" suggests a far deeper and more serious affair is under investigation."
No, it doesn't. And as even Larry Zero Donnell confirmed, the judge doesn't think so either.
I don't know why everyone is so eager to go flying off the handle. This was about an alleged leak of an alleged covert CIA officer.
That's it. And it is SILLY to try to make it into something else.
Look at the list of those who appeared before the Grand Jury. Sheesh.
But "something else" was what churchillsbluff was trying to make of it.
My point was that, if the affair was so serious as the article implied, it would mean that the scope of the investigation had been expanded to stuff that was really serious -- well beyond a contrived perjury or obstruction charge.
Which, of course, would be an outcome that the original poster would not favor...