> but the "intelligence operation" was that his girlfriend was a spy

It's worse than that - his mistress was a spy. This carries additional concerns since it opens the possibility of blackmail or extortion.

They’ll do what? Go public with it? Hard to do when it’s already public.

	▲	root_axis 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's public now - the concern is obviously regarding the period of time when it wasn't public.
	▲	Muromec 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They can go public with more information that we don't know yet, but the man does.