The link is here.

Now, in the Internet Age, you can be assured the other side has read it as well. Assuming for the minute that it's true*, they'll be asking how many "senior Iraqi officials" knew where Saddam would be at that given moment. It'll be a short list, so it wouldn't be too hard to find out and eliminate the source. It probably would be an unpleasant death, too, as was the case of Oleg Penkovsky, who was reportedly fed into a live furnace with some of his closest former colleagues forced to watch.

You may think that's no big deal, but ask yourself, if you were an Iraqi, would you be willing to come forward if you knew what happened to the other guy who crossed Saddam? If the US couldn't be trusted to protect that other source, what makes you think they'd protect you? And what valuable info did we lose by burning a source? Getting good intelligence is hard enough, and HUMINT from an insider can be the most difficult to obtain but also the most valuable. Burn a source and you're likely to get burnt yourself.

As for Justin's comment about how revealing some information can compromise the source for that info, he's exactly right. As a hypothetical example, suppose I told you that I knew you wore red bikini underwear, and I was right. You'd probably want to know how I could know such a thing and you'd start to investigate. Did I sneak into your house and check your drawers (no pun intended)? Is there a hidden camera in your house? Did I snoop on your purchasing habits? Did I listen in on a phone call to your wife asking her to buy you some new underwear? Once you think you've got a vulnerability, you start taking measures to eliminate that vulnerability. That's the nature of the intel business, only on a vastly more complicated scale.

* There's always the possibility that the story is leaked disinformation to attempt to divert attention away from the real source. In this case, it might have the side benefit of causing Saddam to eliminate some of his "senior Iraqi leadership" that he thinks betrayed him. We may know the truth someday, but don't hold your breath.