1. Why was this “mission-critical” affirmative-action initiative classified?
2. Why are names of officials in the CIA’s Office of Diversity Plans and Programs redacted from the letter? Are these CIA officers covert in the same sense that Valerie Plame was covert?
3. Is the decision to release such “mission-critical” information now, in the middle of Obama’s race for his party’s presidential nomination, an attempt to influence the course of American politics in violation of the CIA’s charter?
4. Most interestingly of all: why was this letter cc’ed to Hillary Rodham Clinton, another candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination? Is there a cabal in the CIA trying to help or hurt these two candidates by releasing this information now?