> [Cockburn] writes:
>
> > What was it all about in the first
> > analysis? Outing a CIA employee. What’s wrong with that?
>
> The last sentence alone seems to distance him from reality. What is
> wrong with outing a CIA employee? In the minds of the American public, I
> would think, everything!
I'm with him on the subject of outing a CIA agent. Just because something makes "the public" indignant is not a sufficient reason to adopt it as an issue. "The public" gets pretty het up about flag-burning, too, but who cares?
Disclaimer: Cockburn mentions me in a complimentary way in that Nation piece, so I should declare a personal interest here.
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Michael J. Smith
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