Mashable is desperate for content and short on brains.
So when former CIA agent Valerie Plame posted a public response to disgraced journalist Judith Miller, Mashable saw a cat fight and plunged right into it.
Jason Abbruzzese is the misinformed who elected to flaunt ignorance.
Did you catch the mistake?
"Outing a CIA agent is a felony, so the identity leak was investigated by the Department of Justice. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby was convicted for interfering with the investigation."
Is outing a CIA agent a felony?
No charges were brought against journalist Robert Novak, after all.
That's because it's not a crime to out a CIA agent.
Murder is a crime for everyone.
If you murder someone, that's a crime.
But outing a CIA agent?
The Intelligence Identities Act makes it a crime for anyone with access to classified information to expose the identity of a CIA agent or anyone who has a pattern of exposing them. This law was passed in response to former CIA operative Philip Agee writing Inside The Company: CIA Diary in 1975 in which he outed several CIA agents.
What's really sad is that Mashable thinks they have it right when they don't and that they even offer:
Updated: April 7, 2015, 6:14 P.M. EST This article was corrected to clarify that revealing the identify of a CIA agent is a felony.
The article needs another correction to clarify the mistake their clarification created.