OK, so how about the administration quits outing the ones that we have for starters? The WP article goes on and on about how difficult it is to recruit the right people, train them, get them in the field and then make it all work but they completely skip over what the Bush administration did to Plame. How did the outing of Plame not make it into this article? If they are going to talk about all of the challenges of the CIA, it seems to me that Plamegate is as much or more of a problem as any of the other challenges that are listed.
An agency official with clandestine experience said such protections are essential. "Because cover exists to protect our people and assist our operations, its strength and improvement are a constant concern for CIA," the official said. "We have been enhancing our cover tradecraft to meet the challenges of the Internet age, when personal data is more easily accessible than ever before. To be sure, there is more to be done, and no one here underestimates the complexity and difficulty of the task," he added.
