The situation probably sucks more for this guy than it did for Plame. When you get outed, it effectively ends your career with the agency and potentially puts your life and the life of your family in danger....especially if you get outed while being active. That said, mistakes happen. Unfortunately this mistake probably ruined this guy's career.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Astonishing: White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan <a href="http://t.co/QKKczt6CgF">http://t.co/QKKczt6CgF</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost">@washingtonpost</a></p>— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValeriePlame/statuses/470904332733255680">May 26, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Terrible, it takes a special kind of stupid to make a mistake like this. Dooms the guy to a desk job for the rest of his active career.
Blowing a guys cover like this is always horrible. It endangers anyone who was helping him and that he had contact with. It hampers our intel gathering in an area where we need it most. What a horrible and stupid mistake. I hope that the person that did this is never in a position to do it again.
You can bet on it, the person who made that mistake was fired long before we ever found out about it.
Richard Armitage leaked Plame's name. It was investigated by an independent council, who did not charge anyone with leaking classified information.
From the link: The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit her husband, a former ambassador and fierce critic of the decision to invade Iraq.
it was exactly the same: Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage acknowledged Thursday that he was the source who first revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak back in 2003, touching off a federal investigation. Armitage told the CBS Evening News that he did so inadvertently. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/leak.armitage/
What did I tell you rim? Twas all a big misunderstanding. No need for Cheney to be swinging from the gallows.
That this nearly decade old thread continues to get randomly bumped with new information (legit or not). Spoiler
