Plame leak shameful no matter how the White House spins it

Josh Marshall -- The defense now being floated out of the White House is that the perps didn’t really have any clear idea what she did — only that she worked at the CIA and was involved in controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction. In other words, they disclosed her identity without making any attempt to ascertain whether the disclosure might put her in harm’s way or scuttle a major anti-proliferation operation.

For all they knew, Plame was then involved in a clandestine effort to take down a band of terrorists who were smuggling uranium from Pakistan into Germany for later use against the United States. Yet the leakers made no effort to find out.

If true, that would amount to a stunningly reckless indifference to protecting American lives and U.S. national security. But this appears to be exactly what the White House and its defenders are trying to say happened.

el - the fact that they knew she worked at the CIA and was involved in controlling the spread of WMD is enough to make them traitors for outing her.