NY Times and intelligence leaks

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

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Similarly, I wonder why people who thought it was so important to find the leaker in the Valerie Plame case and to see the reporter punished (so long as it was Bob Novak and even though it was generally known that she worked for the CIA and was the wife of the guy whose name I forget) now think that leaking classified information is really not that big of a deal, especially since it was information you could have assumed..

and vice versa.... why were those that are up in arms about this so non-chalant about the Plame leak.... or at least that is how it is perceived.