Thanks for the ping! Though I'm sympathetic to Taranto's sentiment, he's stretching a bit here. If the LAT confirmed the Agents' ID's from government databases, it's not really analogous to the allegations in Plamegate (I say "allegations" because as you know there was no deliberate "leak" to Novak, but in any case that's the ostensible allegation there, in contrast to here where the press isn't citing any leak sources). This would be closer to Woodward's initial article on Watergate mentioning that James McCord disclosed his CIA affiliation in court.
I think the question is really HOW the LATimes found out that these were THE pilots "involved" in the first place. Without the answer to that, the database is useless.
The second question is, if they're "classified" CIA agents what are their names AND home addresses are doing in the database accessible freely (?) by news media... or the database was accessed illegally...? Novak found Plame's name because it was out in the open in "Who's Who", entry bought by Wilsons themselves.
I'd say this maybe more serious than Plamegate, and we might need a SP to get to the bottom of this, at least to find out if news media was illegally breaking into secret (or possibly "classified") CIA database, and/or how they identified that these were THE pilots. Should somebody at CIA send a referral to DoJ, just to find out?