Wasn't my darling. He traded US classified information and his own honor to help some reporter write a nice about him in a book. I saw people get their careers effectively ended for making actual honest mistakes with classified material that did not result in any actual release of information, not conscious decisions to trade access for getting in some gal's pants.The Annoyed Man wrote:What the heck happened to this man? He used to be the darling of conservatives.....
I have no doubt the administration made sure this came to light in order to forestall any possible political challenge by him, but that doesn't excuse him giving them the ax to chop his head off with, nor for thinking he didn't have to play by the rules all his subordinates had to go by.
He should fit right in with the anti-2A crowd, and we should not let anyone forget what he did.