Over on the not-to-be-missed NRO Media Blog, Stephen Spruiell interviews Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, former deputy secretary of intelligence and briefly a Clinton nominee for Defense Secretary, about Valerie Plame. Money graf: “[The leaking of Plame’s identity] is still one I would rather not see, but she was working in an analytical organization, and there’s nothing that precludes anyone from identifying analytical officers. I watch all the hand-wringing over the ruining of careers… there are a lot of operatives whose covers are blown. It doesn’t mean the end of their careers. Many move to the analytical world, which is where she already was. It meant she couldn’t deploy back off to Africa, but nothing I’ve seen indicated that was possible in the first place.”