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Power Grows Arrogant, Ct'd.

Hang on, kids. It gets worse.

So it was in this Robert Novak column that the identity of whistle-blower Joe Wilson's wife was revealed. Wilson's wife happens to work undercover for the CIA, and the revelation of her identity to Novak by "senior administration officials" ruined her career, and potentially endangered the lives of her contacts overseas. It's also illegal.

The ultimate irony in all of this is that Wilson's wife worked on "weapons of mass destruction issues," which means the revelation of her identity undermines a carreer of work for the CIA to control the proliferation of WMDs -- the very reason we allegedly went to war with Iraq in the first place. These "senior administration officials" are willing to sacrifice national security vis-a-vis WMD proliferation in order to save face on those "sixteen words."

Novak told Newsday today that he didn't seek out the information, but that administration officials brought it to him, clearly an effort to ruin the life of a man who has dared to question the integrity of the White House case for war....