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I can't think of literally anything - including the abandonment of Afghanistan or the invasion of Iraq - that better illustrates the Bush Administration's willful damaging of American national security than outing Valerie Plame. Doubtless many will now ask themselves why should they risk their lives for a government that will make no effort to protect them or their collegues from the dangers inherent in intelligence work?
This leaves a dangerously void of dedicated and competent intelligence professionals, leaving only partisan or incompetent hacks in their place. How is any President from here on to trust the quality or accuracy of the the intelligence they receive? How many real threats to our nation go uninvestigated or are missed entirely while chimeras of "the anti-war left" and the like receive all the attention?
Truly, a most tragic legacy the Bush Administration has left us to live with. Here's hoping our children survive it.
