John Kerry Outed Real Undercover CIA Agent

Recently, one of our lefty commenters recited the law, which he wrongfully accuses Karl Rove of breaking in the Valerie Plame fracas:

Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Now I know this is expecting a bit much, but would those same people huffing and puffing indignantly, yet wrongly, about Karl Rove care to demonstrate a shred of consistency? If so, when may we expect them to demand that John Kerry resign from the Senate, and be prosecuted for this clear violation of an ACTUAL covert agent whose identity the United States was "taking affirmative measures to conceal?"

From Newsmax: Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the agency asked that his identity be kept secret.

Kerry blew the cover of CIA secret operative Fulton Armstrong during confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton.

Questioning Bolton, Kerry asked: "Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed for his position?" - according to a transcript excerpted by the New York Times.

"When the Bolton nomination resurrected the old accounts, however, the C.I.A. asked news organizations to withhold his name," the Times said.

Apparently the CIA directive wasn't good enough for Sen. Kerry - who outed Armstrong anyway.