July 18, 2005

Raw Story nails it: "A classified State Department memo that may be pivotal to the CIA leak case made clear that information identifying an agent and her role in her husband's intelligence-gathering mission was sensitive and shouldn't be shared, according to a person familiar with the document, the (paid-restricted) Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday....read on

Sensitive and shouldn't be shared. That's it in the proverbial nutshell. Everyone knew the leaking of that information was a crime. Okay who can come up with a rebuttal to Ken Mehlman's "chewbacca defense" talking point: "on the basis of information which actually vindicates and exonerates him, not implicates him." I need a nice rhyme.

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