Re: Dropping back into the atmosphere at Mach 25 is never 'routine'....

Pat Flannery wrote:
And that's the way the Bush Whitehouse should have handled it- just
release the data to everyone at once, rather than try to plant a "leak"
so that everyone will then demand that that section of the NIE would be
declassified, and you are apparently forced to do it to satisfy public
demand, despite the possible risk to national security.

Pretty hard to justify declassifying the identity of a covert CIA agent.

It is one thing to declassify satellite images to show the world that
Fidel Castro is having an affair with a Chavez's wife or whatever point
the USA is trying to make, but there is no reason to release the
identity of a covert CIA agent without that agent's permission.

What possible purpose would releasing the identity of a CIA agent serve
other than hurt that person and jeoperdize any operations that he/she
was involved in and possible jeoperdize the life of other people working
with/near her in some project ?

This is reckless endangerement. Even if the idiot had officially
declassified the document, he should be held accountable for such a
stupid move.
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