It's all the same

Yup...I was right. To the wingers outing a CIA agent and exposing an illegal wiretap program are the same. In my post about the DoJ investigation into the NSA wiretap leak I proposed:

I believe this may also be an attempt by the WH to conflate the Valerie Plame leak investigation and the domestic spying leak investigation.

Check out this post over at Crooked Timber

Law professor Glenn Reynolds quotes law professor Ann Althouse:

I wonder if those who screamed loudest about the Plame leak and national security are equally outraged about this new leak?

Pointing out this vile hypocrisy must be the zingiest zinger that ever zinged a zingee. They’re right, in way. Few of us who are upset about the outing of Valerie Plame are viscerally upset about the NSA leak, which we tend to see as a classic whistleblower scenario.

Excellent post. Thanks to Atrios for pointing me in the right direction.

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