Atrios highlights Larry Johnson’s testimony to Congress about the Valerie Plame affair. He is a career CIA officer and was a classmate of Valerie Plame’s in the CIA training program. He discusses how the CIA classifies their agents and how they work. Plame was most definitely a CIA agent even though her story might not be as sexy as James Bond. More troubling, the White House knew this according to an article in the Washington Post. Maybe I’m a weak-kneed liberal or whatever, but screwing over a covert agent and putting intelligence assets at risk is a big deal. Maybe even a bigger deal that a guy lying about a blowjob.

I hope the press and Congress don’t drop this. Whoever leaked the name should get fired at the very least.