Well I'm shocked too! I'm shocked that the American people put up with the flawed empire building policy.

Empire building?

Stopping a madman from getting nukes is "empire building"?

You liberals are seriously insane.

empire building lol. moonbats crack me up

Funny how no one mentions that Iran didn't start seeking nukes until we invaded the Middle East...

True, we don't want the mad man leading Iran to have nukes. But doesn't that make us hypocrites, considering that our mad man has nukes?

There's a precedent, though: The press ignored the White House's request they not divulge secrets concerning monitoring terrorist groups' electronic transactions in offshore accounts. Even if the White House HAD told ABC news that harm was going to be done to national security, they'd have run with the story anyways.

The Mainstream Media: Not so much the Fourth Estate as a Fifth Column.

This is all President Bush's fault. Just remember, everything that goes wrong in our country is President Bush's fault. The main-stream media is invested in destroying this administration. Just think of the ratings the media will get after the next attack on the U.S. They have successfully lulled the vast majority of America back to sleep with all of this liberal garbage about how the war on terror is over and the threats are exagerrated, etc.

The real story today is that Danny Glover is campaigning for John Edwards...that really says it all.

Boy, the right wingnut sychophants are out in force today. It is clear they have not heard of the First Amendment and Freedom of the Press as the founding fathers, distrustful of too much power concentrated in one brach of government, envisioned as essential 'counter balances' to Executive, Legislative or Judicial overreaches of power? Oh, right - to them the Constitution is just a "quaint" document - unless it suits their own purposes, like the Second Amendment. Then all of a sudden the Constitution becomes conveniently sacred.

Hands off freedom of the press, boys. It's time for some adult leadership now that the frat boys have messed things up so well. I have a suggestion: how's about a Congressional investigation into who the VP has been scheming with using the official places and resources provided by the taxpayers of this nation, to pervert the Constitution? Isn't that actually called treason?

Given the known history of CIA covert operations, it is difficult to believe that the government of Iran would not already have suspected that such operations were underway. All ABC News did was enlighten the American public about this issue.

Enough bashing of Israel and the US already. Some might say my views are "liberal" but some of the people on this site just seem way pro-Arab and UnAmerican. The administration needs to be more transparent, and people need to stop bashing the US for all the problems in the Middle East-especially nut jobs like the president of Iran

The lapdog media will do anything to help their masters. Did Harry Reid come over and rub your belly after you damaged national security? Did Nancy Pelosi feed you an extra treat? Good doggies, bite Bush.

Pathetic

Damage National Security!? You have to be kidding. The bumbling CIA itself is a threat to national security. Typically, hypocritical Republicans want an investigation yet when President Cheney releases classified info, or better yet, outs a CIA agent, its all AOK with the NeoCon doofs. Boo Hoo Hoo.

Empire Building? That's what it should be called. Have you seen the vast scope of the new US Embassy in Iraq? It's larger than Vatican City. Have you heard that Bush has said he wants us to have a permanent force in Iraq 50 years into the future like we have in Korea? Although the two situations could not be more different. Sure sounds like the first steps of Empire Building to me.

This is no worse than President Cheney releasing classified for his political purposes. Out outing a CIA agent. Give it a rest, its old and tired.

Excuse me, Cannis?

Iran's current nuke program started in 1990, in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. They bought 1,000 kgr of natural uranium hexafluoride, 400 kgr of uranium tetrafluoride, and 400 kgr of uranium dioxide from China and didn't tell the IAEA.

You can claim that Iran did that in response to our driving Iraq out of Kuwait - but remember, Iran had just come off an 8 year war with Iraq. They hated Iraq more than the Kuwaitis did. The were happy to see us give Saddam a hit, and just as happy to see us leave.

If Iraq hadn't bombed out Iran's reactors at Bushehr between 1984 and 1987 (they weren't yet completed when Iraq destroyed them) Iran would have a very different nuke program right now - and would certainly have operational devices now.

The real issue here is why is Bush authorizing a secret invaasion of Iran. Once again we are jeopardizing our respect in the world by letting this madman President invade countries who don't invade us first. We have just as mad a President as Iran does.

So you want an investigation into ABC TV for reporting on a known Iranian story? fine lets start an investigation. Along with that investigation we will also investigate the role the president has played in the escalation of nuclear weapons here on earth and potentially in space, the reason the mission statement for NASA was changed, the underhanded methods to gut the EPA, the prevention of private companies to test 100% of cattle for mad-cow disease, the willful rejection of every international agreement or WMD treaty, the treat posed by creating a useless missile defense system in Europe, the impact globalization has had on food safety, the lack of leadership at FEMA and DHS, the JD attorney firing scandal, the controversial political and incompetent job appointments, the Iraq war, and the CIA agent outing.

You can add your issue to the list, and maybe will get around to ya.

Sorry, but if ABC checked with the White House and gave them every opportunity to amend or delete anything they wanted, then it smells more like a deliberate leak the Bush administration wanted out, more than they wanted it hidden.
I think it is also time that some people consider that if you are going to complain about this, then you treat all leaks equally and not just whether they come from a media source you may not happen to like or whether it was Bush declassifying secret info so he could speak at a graduation. Either secret info is secret or not. Let's not play games with it being okay one day and not the next depending on who is doing the deciding. It is not as if this admistration has follwed the classified rules to the letter in their previous dealings.

Foreign Visitor, that's the truth. Its not like the White House didn't have every chance to kill this story. Sounds like another deliberate leak by President Cheney.

It's amazing.

The wingnuts haven't been right one time. Not on Iraq, not on Al Qaeda, not on the economy. But THEY think other people are INSANE?!?

Chimpletons, attention!!! Facts don't change, and your rhetoric will never turn wrong into right! Why do you think your numbers have gone to about 20%?

"Isn't it funny how we can cherry pick all the 'mad men' and 'tyants' and make the decision about who can or cannot have nuclear power?"

I'd call that more "fortunate" than "funny".
Israel and India can have nukes because they won't use them on us. Iran can't because they will.
9/11 proved that the Atlantic Ocean is not the barrier to religious barbarism that it once was. It doesn't take advanced missiles to hit us, just a few people willing to die for their cause. Give those people nukes and we'd be in real trouble.
Likewise, however, the Atlantic Ocean is not a barrier to us, either. Our only barrier is our dull and attenuated survival instinct. Terrorists have been banging on the windows since the 70's, but it took 9/11 to trip the sensor and sound the alarm. Now that we recognize the threat nothing will stop us from dealing with it. That includes keeping nukes out of the hands of countries that would share them with terrorists.