So whatever happened to the US spy in Afghanistan who reportedly drafted the email smear falsely attacking Obama?

You remember the lie. Obama blew off the troops and went to play basketball instead. You may have forgotten, however, that the author of the email is supposedly a US intelligence officer in Afghanistan by the name of Jeffrey Porter. About a week or two ago, the US military came out and denied the underlying claims of the email, but they didn't say anything about whether Cpt Porter was in fact the real author. They didn't even deny it. And then today I read on Snopes that in fact the captain reportedly confirmed that his email was real, even though he says it was only meant for family.

Uh huh. A US spy pens an email to family trashing a US presidential candidate, including private details of his visit to a US base in a war zone, and we're to accept that the spy made a mistake. I know spies. They don't talk, ever. And they most certainly don't put such things in writing. Even my non-spy State Department friends watch what they say by email. Actual intelligence officers in the military don't, in my experience, pen such emails by accident.

So what's the status of this? Another reader just sent me another copy of the email - it's still going around. I'd really like to know what the military plans to do about even the appearance of one of its spies using his disinformation skills in an attempt to throw a US election. In real democracies, the military is supposed to be far more professional than that. And in real democracies, people are supposed to care when they're not.