You can't have it both ways

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The effort by U.S. officials to justify raising the terror alert level last week may have shut down an important source of information that has already led to a series of al Qaeda arrests, Pakistani intelligence sources have said."

The moral of this entry is you can't have it both ways. There are a bunch of people in this country who sit around and second guess things that they have no business second guessing and know nothing about. I can't belive I was reading headlines talking about people questioning whether or not the country needed to be at orange alert as a result of information uncovered in Pakistan (and other places) recently. YOU AREN'T A COUNTER-TERRORIST EXPERT. If you don't trust that the CIA can handle that stuff, then vote for people who want to rearrange the CIA or make oversight committees. Don't sit around and act like somehow you understand better than the trained professionals. When you demand all kinds of justification and don't let elected representatives REPRESENT you, you compel them to do things like leak information so that they can prove they know what they're doing. Now, admittedly, whoever leaked the name of this guy before it was time should not have done so, but it would have been a lot easier for him not to leak anything if there weren't people breathing down his neck every time he tried to do his job.