Naming A Desk Jockey vs. Exposing How We Capture Terrorists

Kind of the same thing in Howard Kurtz's mind unless this was just a careless comparison in his Media Notes online column posted hours ago (via Newsbusters) :

Some of the outside commentary is so over the top that I think those folks would repeal the First Amendment tomorrow if they could. And most of those proclaiming horror at the leaking of classified info were willing to give the White House a pass for the outing of the covert Valerie Plame.

Sorry, but a man placing those two events in the same time zone, never mind the same sentence, isn't thinking clearly.

Most of the column admirably quotes critics, Keller himself, and one or two insane people.

UPDATE: Tom Maguire has a much longer post on this "false parallel" between Plame and the bank-data program, including quotes from Posties Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward about how little damage the Plame outing may have caused. Maguire also notes the Plame angle is dropped in Wednesday's story.