Our Leaders: Making The World More Secure. Not

I'm old school liberal when it comes to national security secrets: Your adversary presumably knows or can assume what you're keeping secret on the grounds of national security. But this seems, under the circumstances, awfully blatant. I mean, what's the goal? Implicitly rat out an intelligence source? Assuming there's a leak somewhere doesnt mean it's cool to encourage a purge.

The Times:

American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program after they obtained notes last summer from the deliberations of Iranian military officials involved in the weapons development program, senior intelligence and government officials said on Wednesday.

Emphasis added.)