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I also hate to respond to political posts. However, when you justify outing a CIA agent on the grounds that the operative, "was not even involved in anyting covert lately...", you justify putting CIA agents lives at risk for political purposes. Perhaps the contacts of this agent, who was not even involved in anything covert lately, will be found dead floating down a river in some foriegn county. We wouldn't want to get rid of some political friend and helper of the President over something as minor as that, right? Of course the President didn't have any knowledge that the United States of America was torturing prisoners or that his little helper outed a CIA agent for political purposes, right? The buck stops at the lowest level at which there is plausable deniability, right?

The problem with this line of reasoning is that it undermines the very rule of law that has been a major reason why this is the greatest and most powerful country in the world!