In his Tuesday NRO piece on the Blix report, Jim Robbins says of the Woodward piece: “A Washington Post report indicates that the White House is seeking ways to release more specific, sensitive information without compromising the sources and methods by which the intelligence was collected. The process is slow, but demands that the administration release such information at once and without adequate safeguards is both irresponsible and counterproductive. This is literally a life or death game for oppositionists in Iraq who may be cooperating with the United States. Furthermore, if the U.S. allows sources to be compromised, the intelligence agencies will lose not only the source in question but also any hope of recruiting new informants, who might reasonably fear being exposed and suffering the same fate.”
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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