The Senate Intelligence Committee, under the leadership of Sen. Roberts of Kansas, will hold a long series of hearings and extensive investigation into the depth of the "cover" of CIA employees. The problem is that some undercover agents are not sufficiently under cover, which might lead some poor innocent into disclosing the identify of an undercover agent who is not really undercover. It is gratifying to see that the Committee which has had no time at all to undertake an investigation into illegal (and immoral) disclosures of covert agents has time to look at whether all under cover agents are under cover.
So now we know -- it was the CIA's fault. (It is a well-known bastion of left-wing demoncrat politics, after all.)
Update:
The numbers (via The Carpetbagger Report):
Number of days after the article outing Ambassador Wilson’s wife appeared until the White House required its staff to turn over evidence relating to the leak: 85
Rough number of hours between when Alberto Gonzles gave Andy Card a heads-up about the investigation and when he formally told the staff to save their files: 12
Number of questions the Department of Justice asked the CIA to answer in detail before opening an investigation: 11
Number of D.C. Circuit Court judges who thought the issues involved in the Plame leak were serious enough to warrant jailing a reporter: 3
Number of D.C. Circuit Court Judges and Supreme Court Justices who disagreed: 0
Number of redacted pages in Judge Tatel's opinion: 8
Minimum number of hearings held by Senate Republicans to investigate accusations against President Clinton involving the “Whitewater” case: 20
Total hearings held by Senate Republicans to investigate the leak of the covert identity of Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife: 0
Total briefings requested by Senate Republicans on the damage assessment conducted by the CIA after the Plame leak: 0
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