Where is the conservative outrage over the "outing" of Valerie Plame? Wasn't that a traitorous act, a real traitorous act?

And how do conservatives expect to be taken seriously if they whine and scream about some signs, which were admittedly over the top and not acceptable, and don't regard the disclosure of a covert CIA operative as worse? That's over the top, not acceptable, and endangers a life. Simply for political revenge.

Why hasn't the White House official been indentified? Is there a cover-up? After all, there are only a few possibles. And where's the outrage?

Or isn't THAT so bad?

"But a more telling development has come in subsequent days as key defenders of the White House have begun to change their line of defense.

"Their tactic lately is no longer to deny that some key White House officials tipped columnist Robert Novak off to the fact that Joe Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a covert employee of the CIA. These days, they just say that it wasn’t a crime.

"It’s the rhetorical equivalent of pleading no contest: Yes, we did it. But so what?"

Arf