Military action without adequate intelligence - Sound familiar?

Making policy in the absence of intel, again.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States doesn't have enough good intelligence to know whether or not Iran will be capable of producing nuclear weapons in the near future, top congressional intelligence committee members said on Sunday.

It's a shame we don't have a CIA specialist working on WMD technology transfers relating to Iran, like, oh, say, VALERIE PLAME!!!!!!

When this White House outed Plame in a effort to discredit her husband, they burned the entire operation, the Brewster-Jennings employment cover, losing contacts and intel streams on the nuclear black market. And now, we're totally blind.

The Plame affair was not just some piddling little matter of political retribution; it was a coordinated effort to discredit her husband, a critic of the administration, for purely political purposes that has left the US blind to the actions of Iran over the last three critical years of their nuclear development. Have they imported P-2 centrifuges? Have they procured new weapons designs? It sure would be useful to know that.

If you want prosecute individuals for "compromising sources and methods," Mr. Bush, I recommend you start by looking at those around you, Cheney, Libby, Rove, Hannah. I think the damage they have done far outweighs the exposure of the secret CIA prisons or the NSA warrantless spying.