caught my attention

[Hiebz]

so, I was reading up a little on this Plaming naming thing and one thing struck me in the article on CNN with the title of Bush saying the probe is 'very serious'. the following quote stirred rememberies of the whole Clinton stupidity of yesteryear

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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas derided any potential perjury charge as a "technicality," and suggested Fitzgerald may be trying to show that "two years' of investigation was not a waste of time and dollars."
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if I recollect correctly, that's the same excuse the democrats were using against Starr (wasting money on an investigation that was also wasting time). And, if I reading the article correctly, at this point Fitzgerald is more confident in prosecuting false testifying by administrative officials (i.e. Libby and perhaps Mr. Cheney). Is that not the big beef that brought Clinton down, not that he bumped the intern, but that he lied about it out there in the public. Is that not the same situation here, not so much that they exposed the agent, but that they publicly denied it? Am I making a propper comparison. (Yeah, yeah, I know liberal inchwhipper wishful thinking ...)

[King PSYZ]

Well what's worse is that outing an undercover agent is grounds for treason, which is why they covered it in the first place.

I guess they tried to illustrate that the person ended up not being undercover at the time or something after the fact. But they thought she was undercover and that was the sole intention of the leak to threaten the security and saftey of someone bashing the administration.

[sam i am]

Well what's worse is that outing an undercover agent is grounds for treason, which is why they covered it in the first place.

I guess they tried to illustrate that the person ended up not being undercover at the time or something after the fact. But they thought she was undercover and that was the sole intention of the leak to threaten the security and saftey of someone bashing the administration.

I thought it was to discredit her husband, Mr. Wilson. Like getting back at him by "outing" his wife.

Sounds like the Sopranos-lite to me.

Otherwise, the analysis in the first post was spot-on.