Depressing Ironies of CIA ‘Outing’

“The current brouhaha over the outing of an undercover CIA officer brings to mind vivid memories and comic ironies. The 1982 law that now threatens Karl Rove, or whoever it was who leaked the officer’s name, is the Intelligence Identities Protection Act – and it was adopted to silence me.” — Philip Agee, Philadelphia Inquirer [via CommonDreams]