Williams stated that officials told him the intelligence is "very valuable and still current" and that the government is "aggressively chasing down" the leads obtained.

Williams himself referred to the context of the leak, the "debate over whether [Mutallab] has been handled properly" with many arguing "he should have never been classified as a criminal defendant."

It's hard to see this leak as other than an attempt by the Obama admin to defend its decision to Mirandize Mutallab. But at what cost to national security, given that the intel is allegedly "current" and is being "chased down"? If an outsider had leaked the fact that Mutallab is talking, wouldn't it be a crime?

Will the MSM pick up on this apparent outrage?