Fox News treated the whole Plame affair like it was no big deal; Plame was just a clerical worker; she really wan’t covert, blah blah blah. I hear the Fox-watchers echo the lines. Such is the news-ghetto these people have allowed themselves to slide into. This article sheds some actual news on the matter, rather than the Fox-fodder

CIA Yet to Assess Harm From Plame’s Exposure

But after Plame’s name appeared in Robert D. Novak’s column, the CIA informed the Justice Department in a simple questionnaire that the damage was serious enough to warrant an investigation, officials said.

Not that the Washington Post is purely news, unswayed by any political/ideological pressure, but my complaint here is against the echo chamber, headed by Murdoch’s propagandas machine, who have pitted themselves against any journalism which dares to question the “correct” party lines. Bill Moyers was on Jon Stewart a while back (I watched the video last night), and said that the Right calls “liberal” anything which dares to “investigate” the White House).

So, to the Utilitarians who are constantly claiming that “peace advocates” are naive about the world; that “these are the kinds of things that need to be done to “do what’s got to be done” (like the Colonel Jessup “You need me on that wall”) , but then when such details as “the importance of covert identities” is transgressed, they seem perfectly willing to smooth this one over, and deny wrongdoing. Their hubris has gotten them this time.