ANOTHER WINGNUT MEME SQUISHED

One of the "Oh yeah, what about you guys?" defenses of the Plame leak is the article the NY Times wrote exposing the CIA's "Air Force." I didn't bother to get to the bottom of this one but fortunately MediaMatters did:

On June 19, Times public editor Byron Calame responded to reader mail accusing the Times of revealing sensitive information in its May 31 article. Calame noted that Times reporter Scott Shane "told the C.I.A. public affairs department in several conversations over the course of a month that The Times was pursuing the story."
Calame also quoted an e-mail Shane sent him, in which Shane claimed that five days prior to the article's publication, he emailed a summary to the CIA "that included virtually all the facts we were planning to print." Shane noted that he received a response the following day from the chief CIA spokeswoman, who "gave me a no comment, while assuring me that the information had been seen by all the relevant officials." Calame further noted that "the C.I.A. had ample opportunity to challenge the publication and didn't do so," and that the CIA has not lodged a complaint since the article's publication.