Memo to CIA agents: Out this administration now, before it's too late

If anyone has contacts with folks working for the CIA, they need to read today's column by Robert Novak. And after they're done, they need to send this column around the CIA and, with their CIA buddies, come clean with any information they have showing that this president and this administration is full of dangerous liars.

Novak's column is the latest sign that the Bushies and their Republican attack dogs are launching an all-out assault on the CIA. They never liked the CIA - too independent-minded for the Bushistas neocon sensitivities - and after Bush lied to get us into war in Iraq, the CIA simply has to be the fall guy, otherwise Bush himself might have to take some responsibility for the first time in his life.

Novak's piece, remarkably, complains about CIA leaks as part of the "problem" that needs to be addressed. Yeah, right. Novak had no problem outing an undercover CIA operative's name that was given to him in a leak. But hey, Novak's a Republican, and practicing what they preach, or adhering to the code of morality they try to jam down everyone else's throat, isn't something they're real prone to.

You guys are professional spooks. You do this for a living. You know how to read the tea leaves. Bush and the GOP are out to destroy you. The public relations assault has already begun, as has the purge. You now have a choice. Either sit back and do nothing while your agency, your friends, and our national security are attacked and undermined. Or you can fight back the best way you know how.

You guys are experts at managing information, getting it to the right people at the right time, and doing the entire thing clandestinely. It's high time you started exercising that power and ability, and fast. There's still time to expose this White House and all the horrific mistakes, and lies, over the past four years. Do what you were trained to do. Fight back.

After all, they've already publicly convicted you of trying to expose this president for the fool he really is. And in politics, if they're already accusing you of doing something, you might as well do it.