Read this paragraph from
Fitzgerald's news conference, very carefully. He's talking about privilege in the context of shield laws:
[FITZGERALD:] And I can tell you that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Hogan, who said if there was any qualified privilege, whatever the hurdle was, no matter how high, it was exceeded in this case.
No matter how high? That, to me, reads like Plame's outing got somebody killed.
There aren't many hurdles higher, or crimes more serious, than murder.
Remember the anonymous star going up on the CIA's wall of honor shortly after Plame was outed? Remember the 8 pages redacted from Circuit Judge David Tatel's judgment in favor of Fitzgerald? Whatever was in them must have been evidence of a very serious crime.
Of course, there is one crime more serious than murder: Treason.
UPDATE
Pravda(and through one Dafna Linzer, not Walter Pincus) writes that there's "no indication ... that the most dire of consequences -- the risk of anyone's life -- resulted from her outing." Interesting (artful?) word choice, since the anonymous star theory says that a death
already happened, and the quote refers to some
future risk. And in any case, they would have to say this. If and when the eight pages are unsealed, we'll know better.
NOTE Cross-posted from Corrente.