I guess you consider leaking a CIA operative to be a molehill... just a stupid thing that shouldn't have been done.

About the lying thing: the CIA puts up fake corporations and teaches their operatives to tell their friends that they work elsewhere. To me this is not telling the truth... it's lying. There was another thread (that I will have to hunt down) that said that somewhere in Islam people had the idea that it was okay to pretend to be friends with non-believers if it furthered Islam.. or something like that. It seems like the CIA does that, or something similar, to further our national security.