When the New York Times, and other media outlets, revealed the covert CIA status of Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, Senator Chuck Schumer said the revelation "not only put an agent's life in danger, but many of that agent's sources and contacts." Former CIA agent Larry Johnson called the outing "a betrayal of national security." "Her life has been put at risk. The people that she was working with overseas who were spies, they are potentially at risk. You could potentially have people dead because of this," the spook-turned-talking-head opined. This guy, touting Wikipedia citations, states on his blog that the administration's outing of Plame "deliberately endangered national security," "greatly enhanced the likelihood of nuclear weapons proliferation," and was "a crime of incalculable magnitude." Perhaps the post also explained how blowing Plame's cover caused cancer, but I got bored and stopped reading. Now that the Times has made public other classified material, such as a classified program monitoring the terrorist money trail and classified plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, where are these outraged voices?

I am so tired of the New York Times. If I was more motivated, I'd start a "boycott the NYT" movement.

How arrogant and selfish they are!

Don't hold your breath. What amazes me most about the Angry Left is their seeming inability to admit the truth of and deal with facts; even the most easily proved and undeniable. Valerie Plame's "covert" status is just one in a long line of ALMs (Angry Left Myths) that stretch back into the fog of history.

Thom

Excellent points, Dan. Hypocrisy abounds at the NYTimes and other liberal bastians.

I know it won't happen, but I'd love to see Bush rescind the Times' press credentials and lock them out. The Administration specifically requested that the Times sit on the story, but their socialist/communist agenda along with the fact that anything Bush is blindly hated wouldn't allow them to take into consideration that maybe that the TFTP was an effective tool in our protection against terrorism.

When are these people and their ilk going to understand that any scrutiny using this or any other information will be directed exclusively at people breaking or about to break the law.

Bunch of spoiled rebellious Boomers acting like the children they are.

Actaully, ASDF, I think you are on to something there. Not only should the Administration freeze the NYTimes out of its press conferences and refuse interviews with them - and it should do so until a front page apology is made by the paper - I think the Administration would get a huge bounce in the polls from doing so. This is an issue Bush can actually win on.

I think so too. And he has all of the justification (and I think too the support of the REAL Amercican people) necessary to make a bold move like this.

Somehow, a strong message needs to be sent. Children need to be scolded and punished now and then.

Good points, but, George doesn't seem to have it in him. I guess he's too compassionate. I've been waiting for his whole Presidency for him to defend himself. Where's the righteous indignation?

I would agree that Jorge needs to grow a set and be much less conciliatory. He shows stubborness but not too much strength when he needs to.

We can keep hoping, but don't think this dog will learn any new tricks.

The NYT do not believe the USA is at war and that terrorism isn't any bigger problem than bank robberies, murder,or any other violent criminal acts.
Basically,all the nonsense that Michael Moore and the rest of the "hate-america" left has been spouting about terrorism,mirror what Pinch and his flunkies at the Times believe.
Remember, these are some of the same morons who stated in word and print that the Vietnamese people would be better off with the communist running their country. John Kerry stated in his 1971 congressional testimony that a communist takeover would cause far fewer deaths than what the US lead war had caused.
These are people who have been consistenly wrong and they have little,if any,contact with reality.

you could just as easily say the same thing about the "conservatives" who pooied the idea that leaking plame's identity meant anything, who now believe that alerting Americans to infractions of our civil liberties is High Treason.

Come on! Big difference between outing some low level, desk jockey backroom operative and publicly exposing a program that could intercept information that could help to identify terrorists.

I find it amusing that the left makes Plame out to be some kind of Jane Bond, when she'd been flying a desk for more than 5 years. That excluded her from that part of the law. Her identity wasn't a secret! Why are we still talking about this? Yeeeaaargh!!!

Don't forget about her pretender husband,the handy man who repaired toilets at his assigned embassy. Joe Wilson was never anything but a glorified handyman, who has been living a lie.
He and his desk jockey wife got their 15 minutes now we can turn the page.