it's not a good thing when officials in our own govt decide to 'out' those who are supposed to be on our side, and risking their own safety in the process. scooter libby should not have gotten a pardon. whether she was some kind of james bond type agent or not, he had no right to give out her name as tho she was a nobody.
as for whistleblowers, i liked colin cowherds take on whistleblowers. he was discussing it yesterday. he said no one likes 'blowers, because we all want things to be nice, easy, friendly-and usually 'blowers don't tell us things we want to hear, they don't give a rosie point of view. of course in his case, he was talking about jose canseco-remember how villified that guy was? but what he said turned out to be right. do you think anyone will give him an apology? no. well..that was one hell of a tangent.
at any rate, whether you've decided plame was somebody or nobody, if she was guaranteed anonymity, that should have been respected, especially by those in the executive!!!
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