National Journal‘s Murray Waas drops a big one on Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), the Senate intel committee chair who recently praised the CIA for firing accused leaker Mary McCarthy:
[T]hree years ago on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Roberts himself was involved in disclosing sensitive intelligence information that, according to four former senior intelligence officers, impaired efforts to capture Saddam Hussein and potentially threatened the lives of Iraqis who were spying for the United States.