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How serious was International Woman of Mystery, Valerie Plame, about protecting her secret spy status when her husband was spilling his guts in the New York Times regarding his CIA sponsored mission in Niger to expose Bush's lies? If anything this compromised the vast majority of Times op ed writers whose spouses are not spies.
Christopher Hitchins makes the point in Monday's Wall Street Journal …"what was to inhibit an employee of the Bush administration from calling attention to these facts, and letting reporters decide for themselves? The CIA had proven itself untrustworthy or incompetent on numerous occasions before, during and after the crisis of Sept. 11, 2001. Why should it be the only agency of the government that can invoke the law, broken or (as in this case) unbroken, to protect itself from leaks while protecting its own leakers?"
When you've lost William Buckley the game is over
http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200511011324.asp