This guy is a retired CIA agent and a confessed republican and has made many statements about this incident that are not kind to the Bushies at all.

But here is something to consider: That idiot Novak even named the fake company that Plame worked for in his column. Do you have any idea of the implications of that? Evidently you do not, so I'll lay it out for you - that means that anyone who has ever been associated with that company has more or less been outed as well.

Hell, even that maddog conservative Joe Scaroborough gets this and illustrates this by saying imagine if James Carville had been Al Gore's chief of staff and had done this in a time of war.

So don't bullshit us Pat, you can't tell us your view would not be any different.

And don't give us that frigging Rethug talking point of, "oh, lookiee, the liberals are loving the CIA now, when they usually can't stand the yucky agency." Because I'll point this out to you - the only times the liberals have been disgusted with the CIA is when they have done what they could to sabotage democracy and have been quite happy with it when it has done what it could to promote hand defend democracy. There is a HUGE difference.