The left found one righteous CIA agent in Valerie Plame and wrung its hands for years over the disclosure of her identity. But everyone else in the CIA can go hang. Michele Malkin points out that principles only go so far – or rather, not far at all.
Last week, The Washington Post reported on a new Justice Department inquiry into photographs of undercover CIA officials and other intelligence personnel taken by ACLU-sponsored researchers assisting the defense team of Guantanamo Bay detainees. According to the report, the pictures of covert American CIA officers — “in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes” — were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators. . . .
Where is the concern for the safety of these American officers and their families? Where’s the outrage from all the indignant supporters of former CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name was leaked by Bush State Department official Richard Armitage to the late Robert Novak? Lefties swung their nooses for years over the disclosure, citing federal laws prohibiting the sharing of classified information and proscribing anyone from unauthorized exposure of undercover intelligence agents.
The outrage can be found in the same place as the left’s outrage over the war. You might think all the troops had come home, but the build up in Afghanistan continues. The anti-war protesters have gone home instead, leaving Cindy Sheehan as the lone remnant. The media found her message compelling when it was delivered in Crawford, Texas, but it doesn’t seem to play well in Martha’s Vineyard.
So expect poor Valerie to disappear from public view as the arguments supporting her cause no longer apply.
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