RawStory is reporting that the consequences of the Plame leak are far-reaching and have had devastating effects on our intelligence efforts to fight nulcear proliferation in Iran. According to RawStory:
Several intelligence officials described the damage in terms of how long it would take for the agency to recover. According to their own assessment, the CIA would be impaired for up to "ten years" in its capacity to adequately monitor nuclear proliferation on the level of efficiency and accuracy it had prior to the White House leak of Plame Wilson's identity.
Former Republican Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and current CIA chief, Porter Goss, has yet to report a damage assessment to the intelligence committees. Yet, this recent revelation suggests that there is plenty about which Congress should be apprised.
The Bush Administration's claims to have strengthened our national security have been shattered in past few days. A clearer picture of incompetence and deceit has emerged with Libby's recent admission that his superiors instructed him to leak classified information and with the Government Reform Committee's scathing report that the Administration knew about and failed to respond to the looming disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
With this Government Reform report, and with the series of NSA hearings called for by Congresswoman Heather Wilson and Senator Specter, Bush's own party is beginning to abandon him for the 40-percent-approval, lame duck president that he has become.
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