Clarification

Just in case I'm ever a top White House official, I'd like to propose some rules for myself and others to follow. I can't leak information that someone is a covert CIA operative.

Addendum 1: Unless a reporter calls me first. In the event that we call each other simultaneously and are connected, the caller shall be defined as the one living in the city whose baseball team has the best record.

Addendum 2: I can't reveal it, unless it's in part of a sentence that is mostly about something else, like what I think of Johnny Depp living in France.

Addendum 3: If the agent in question has any relatives, and they have any opinions, it's ok to reveal the agent's identity.

Addendum 4: In the event that I am likely committing a "crime" (scare quotes patented by Ben Shapiro), it shall be considered a non-crime if the editors of the Wall Street Journal really, really, really like me.

Addendum 5: It's a bad idea to reveal a secret agent's identity in a war.

Correction to Addendum 5: Unless it's a war I helped start.

Addendum 6: Government terms like "top secret" are so old fashioned, and subject to "laws". I reserve the right to make up terms like double super secret background which will apply to anyone in the government, in the press, or the counter person at Baskin Robin's, should I feel the need to point out to him any CIA secrets.

Addendum 7: This would all be so much simpler if the press was part of the government, that way they could be held accountable for the laws I temporarily modified while answer a completely different question.