Your memory is mistaken. The "leak" came from Richard Armitage who was never VP. Scooter Libby got the blame, not for the leak, but that he couldn't accurately remember a 10 minute conversation two years earlier. The prosecutor Fitzgerald knew this and admitted it. I also write "leak" because the prosecutor also said that Valerie Plame didn't really qualify as a covert operative well before the "leak". Her status as a CIA officer had been written about by Robert Novak earlier.
As to the Mission Accomplished I don't remember Bush singling out any crewmen by name as Joe Biden wanted to do.
On the memory thing, I have seen video (it is probably on youtube) of Senator John Kerry at a hearing on the CIA. He held in his hand a copy of a report in which a covert operative was called agent smith (or maybe jones). At some point Kerry interrupted a speaker and asked by agent smith don't you mean agent xxxxxxxx and gave his real name. This was in public and the agent was covert. John Kerry had just broken the law by outing in public, on TV, a covert agent.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/...4/225202.shtml Where is the outrage?
