How can it be legal to ...

release the name of an undercover CIA agent, expose a CIA front company and endanger the lives of everyone connected with the agent and the company?

I don't care how many "Executive Orders" the Chimp signed giving Cheney "authorization" to declassify information - we're not talking about an intelligence report or a few facts, we're talking about the lives of an undercover intelligence agent and her assets as well as National Security. No one at the CIA, including the agent (Plame), was warned about her status being "declassified" and no effort was made to protect her or her assets after the "declassification" occurred. Who gives a shit if Bush** signed a piece of paper ... HOW THE HELL CAN THAT BE LEGAL?!? :grr:

having the power to do something and having the right to do something. A world of difference.

including the pResident, has the right to expose an undercover CIA agent. Every intelligence agent currently serving our country should be furious ... and terrified!

As much as anything, this is about the on-going accumulation of power for the executive at the expense of the legislative branch of government.

The current rhetoric is simply a declaration that the executive is not bound by law wrapped in the wrapper of the CIA case. He's sounding more and more like a dictator every day.

it's much harder to make it ethical.

And yet no one challenges them!!!!You have to ask yourself WHY

and I come to the same conclusion everyday.
It's over.

coverup, nothing would be done. Zip. Nada. Zero. That's the state of the "news media" today and of the public's apathy.