Shorter Issa: "Nobody Told Me That Releasing the Names of Assets Working for the CIA Could Endanger Their Lives"

For that is precisely what Congressman Issa did when he released over a hundred pages of State Department cables pertaining to Libya.

I'll bet heavily that Issa will now whine that "nobody told me that it would be a bad idea to release the names of intelligence assets". Here is the thing: You would have be brain-dead* to not realize that making public the names of foreigners who are intelligence assets for the US would put them at risk. If, for example, a Russian politician made public the names of American citizens who provided information to the Russian government, all of those people would be nearly instantaneously scooped up by the FBI.

In other countries, like Libya, the local reaction may be more along the lines of: "A pistol bullet to the back of the head."

This sad affair is yet another example of a point that I have been making for years: Republicans like Issa are more loyal to their party than to their nation. And if a few American intelligence assets in another country are imprisoned or killed so that the GOP can score a couple of points in any given news cycle, that's fine with the GOP.
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*Or a former car thief who has no respect for the law.