Treason.

As someone who has worked with a lot of classified military information, I have my reservations about the process and criteria used in the creation of official secrets. One area, though, that indisputably deserves the protection of classification is information about the readiness of military defenses in combat areas. Revealing areas of weakness is an open invitation to attack, and a likely death sentence for the defenders.

Which is why this story inspires more than a bit of rage in me. (my emphasis)

"US military officers in Baghdad have warned they cannot guarantee the security of the perimeter around the Green Zone, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and home to the US and British embassies, according to security company employees. At a briefing earlier this month, a high-ranking US officer in charge of the zone's perimeter said he had insufficient soldiers to prevent intruders penetrating the compound's defences."

Financial Times

Get that? The US military briefed the civilian security contractors on the state of our defenses, and the conractors fed the information to the press.

It's treason.

And it's a predictable outcome of the Bush/Rumsfeld policy of privatizing the DoD.

So the President and his "splendid" Secretary of Defense are complicit in treason.

Somebody should alert Ann Coulter...