What besides Partisanship?

If you were like me and took a short holiday from all-things news over the weekend, you woke today to the tale of Mary McCarthy, the CIA officer fired last week for leaking classified information to the press. Others are writing more with plenty of in-depth analysis as well. But for now, here is my take on it all.

All the developments discussed by Hugh, Tom Maguire, Wretchard at The Belmont Club and more suddenly make Victoria Toensing’s musings about covert ops against the WH by CIA bureaucrats seem a whole lot less fantastic and a whole lot more plausible.

What besides partisanship explains a Clinton appointee and Democratic donor running to the press with classified information about current and important operations? I’m open to suggestions, but for myself can reach no other conclusion.

See here for one explanation as to why this is a really, really, really bad thing.