Those who underscore the Valerie Plame outing as a reason to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are correct, but there is so much more to this whole complicated episode than what our dear higher affinity of the mainstream media have revealed.

The blunt truth is that when you become involved in the heinous realm of outing someone doing undercover work a leading question that needs to be asked is this.

How damaging an act was the outing?  What was going on within the worlds of the individuals involved?  What were they investigating and what had they reported concerning research efforts?

What has been the impact upon a nation's citizenry along with the world at large as a result of those investigative efforts?