Surely we've all heard about the *new* Whitehouse scandal - releasing the name of an American operative, thus endangering her life, friends and colleagues not to mention potentially blowing years of intelligence work. Now I'm the first to say that I don't agree with the way our government chooses to handle it's operations and I don't really believe in secret ops but I feel even more strongly that what our government (allegedly) did was so wrong it defies description.

If our gov't is going to recruit secret operatives, one of the most important words is SECRET! It could mean their lives if they're discovered. Yes, it's possible that they would be uncovered during the normal course of their work but THEIR OWN GOV'T shouldn't give them up! Moveon.org has a petition going to ask Ashecroft to recuse himself from this and appoint a special investigator. According to current figures, approx 70% of Americans feel he should appoint a special prosecutor. Hell, if we can have some special investigate a blow job that didn't cost anyone their life, surely we can have one to investigate this much more damaging situation.

If you're looking for a way to get involved, take a small step - sign the petition.