What I find amazing in all the punditry over whether it was really a crime to out Valerie Plame, whether she was really undercover or not, whether her outing had negative effects on intelligence gathering or endangered her contacts, etc etc, is this: Conservatives are always telling us how much they love their country, how much they support our troops in Iraq, etc. But outing Valerie Plame was a power play, a political move designed to counter the claims of her husband about the war, and everyone acknowledges that. So is it power that conservatives love more, or their country? That is the question behind all the hypocrisy and spin this affair is now getting from the right wing.