Steve Gilliard at The News Blog cudgels Bill Kristol:

Kristol is being purposely dense here. Classified information, sure. Plame's name and role was not classified. It was Top Secret-SCI, restricted to the Directorate of Operations and its most senior officials. Her work at the CIA was a state secret. Revealing it was a crime. It wasn't just politics as usual. But it wasn't her name alone, but revealing her work as an employ of Brewster-Jennings which caused the real problem. When a judge is asked to review Fitzgerald's requests, he's never been turned down. Most of his public papers are redacted. People probably died as a result of that revelation. You can bet Fitzgerald has that information on tap. It was a major intelligence defeat and a self-inflicted one at that.[emphasis added]

He's never been turned down. He put Judy Miller in the slammer. And for all the wingnut blather that Valerie Plame was not really "undercover" (like the CIA doesn't know who their own fucking spooks are), people died for this "leak."

UPDATE: Some days I don't know my Kristol from my Kristhof.