What's The Big Deal With This Plame Thing Any Way?

This is the big deal:

Eighty-three nameless stars adorn the north wall of CIA Headquarters, a silent testimony to those who gave their lives protecting the United States. They remain nameless to protect the contacts, field agents and "front companies" that survive them.

Brewster Jennings was one such company, until allegedly outed by proxy, and this is the really disturbing part, by the President of the United States. The agents working for Brewster were working on preventing "WMD" proliferation. Their mission was destroyed advancing a small cadre's political agenda.

Raw Story reported this on 2/13/06
The damages

Intelligence sources would not identify the specifics of Plame's work. They did, however, tell RAW STORY that her outing resulted in "severe" damage to her team and significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor nuclear proliferation.

Plame's team, they added, would have come in contact with A.Q. Khan's network in the course of her work on Iran.

Whether you dislike or disapprove of the CIA's methods is irrelevant. They have been from their inception the people willing to dirty their hands so that ours could remain clean. They work in the shadows so that we can bask in the light of day. You may call them a necessary evil or a pillar of our democracy, but whatever you may think of them: The agents at Brewster Jennings deserved better than being hung out to dry, by the ones, who were supposed to be guarding their identity.