Elliott Abrams is rightly and eloquently outraged about this morning’s New York Times article, which features Obama administration officials discussing sensitive and classified national security matters, for the sake of making the president look tough. The leakers—none of whom “would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it continue to this day”—did no favor to our national security, or to efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

But it’s interesting that one of them also, in passing, did no favor to Vice President Joe Biden. There’s an account of a key meeting, recounted in some detail by a presumably very senior administration official who was there, at which a CIA briefer explained that it was thought that a modification in the Stuxnet code that some viewed as unfortunate had been done by the Israelis. Sanger writes that in fact “It is unclear who introduced the programming error.” But at the meeting, Biden, we are told, “fumed. ‘It’s got to be the Israelis,’ he said. ‘They went too far.'”