Ooops! Loose lips and all that...

[The Ressurrected One]

Let's see if the sharks smell as much blood as they did when Valerie Plame was outed as a covert tail partier.

Senators May Have Blown Cover of CIA Agent

Mr. Smith came to Washington again Monday, as an alias for a Central Intelligence Agency officer who works covertly. Senators, however, may have blown his cover.

During questioning on John R. Bolton's nomination to be President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, Bolton and members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee referred to "Mr. Smith" as one official among several who were involved in a dispute over what Democrats asserted was Bolton's inappropriate treatment of an intelligence analyst who disagreed with him.

"We referred to this other analyst at the CIA, whom I'll try and call Mr. Smith here, I hope I can keep that straight," Bolton said at one point.

Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both mentioned a name, Fulton Armstrong, that had not previously come up in public accounts of the intelligence flap.

It is not clear whether Armstrong is the undercover officer, but an exchange between Kerry and Bolton suggests that he may be.

In questioning Bolton, Kerry read from a transcript of closed-door interviews that committee staffers conducted with State Department officials prior to Monday's hearing.

"Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from his position? The answer is yes," Kerry said, characterizing one interview. "Did John Bolton share that view?" Kerry said, and then said the answer again was yes.

"As I said, I had lost confidence in Mr. Smith, and I conveyed that," Bolton replied evenly. "I thought that was the honest thing to do."

[JoeChalupa]

He should be held to the same standards. Period.

[The Ressurrected One]

He should be held to the same standards. Period.

Well, okay then, Kerry and company are prison-bound.

[Nbadan]

The big difference is that nobody is likely to die because Armstrong may or may not have been exposed. However, at least 50 people may have died when someone in the White House publicly exposed Valarie Plume as a undercover CIA officer. At least 2 reporters, including Judith Miller, continue to sit in prison for refusing to name the source of their information. The do ents which the WH and the Neocons tried to use to make the claims against Sudan-Saddam turned out to be crude forgeries, possible even printed in Republican Senators Mel Martinez's office.