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Originally Posted by Jefferson  Valerie Plame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She had not been an overseas operative for 6 years before the alleged "leak" took place.
And if you'll notice in the article, even Fitzgerald cannot show that there was any kind of crime committed - and Fitzgerald is doing everything possible to make mountains out of molehills. | I read most but not all of the article. I came across this: Quote:
Some press accounts have raised questions about whether or not the CIA still considered Plame a "covert" agent––that is, the precise nature of her "classified" status or the type of "cover" that she had and whether or not it was "official" or "non-official"––at the time she was outed in the Novak column of July 14, 2003. Yet, as Johnson observes in his Congressional testimony previously cited:These [disparaging] comments [by members of the press and others in the public debate] reveal an astonishing ignorance of the intelligence community and the role of cover. The fact is that there are thousands of U.S. intelligence officers who "work at a desk" in the Washington, D.C. area every day who are undercover. Some have official cover, and some have non-official cover. Both classes of cover must and should be protected.[14] |
Johnson is former CIA officer Larry C. Johnson, who may be a better source for whether Plame was covered by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. The footnote (14) goes to a larger quote from the same proceeding, which is at http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/hear.../cialetter.pdf
For all appearances Valerie Plame had a desk job in Washington, D.C., but was also doing covert work behind the scenes which she can now no longer do. This likely compromised national security, since your article states she was working on non-conventional weaponry overseas: Quote: |
But within the C.I.A., the exposure of Ms. Plame is now considered an even greater instance of treachery. Ms. Plame, a specialist in non-conventional weapons who worked overseas, had "nonofficial cover", and was what in C.I.A. parlance is called a NOC, the most difficult kind of false identity for the agency to create. While most undercover agency officers disguise their real profession by pretending to be American embassy diplomats or other United States government employees, Ms. Plame passed herself off as a private energy expert. Intelligence experts said that NOCs have especially dangerous jobs.[8] | I do not think Fitzgerald is making a mountain out of a molehill, but rather, you are not seeing the mountain.
Incidently, what is the difference between muslim extremists lying to christains and what the CIA does? |