Fact or Fiction? Plame wasn't a covert NOC meme

[DaveColorado]

I've had some Bushbots mention to me that Plame was never undercover.

I figure this must be some Hannity or Rush meme as most established media says she was undercover, but I'm not sure where it originated.

Whay say you guys?

[Birthmark]

1. Well, the CIA referred the matter to the DOJ

Presumably, the CIA knows whether their agents are undercover. ;)

[cynatnite]

9. This needs driven home whenever some bushbot spouts crap n/t

[Birthmark]

14. I do drive it home.

I can't be everywhere, though. :)

[Ioo]

2. The CIA itself asked for the investigation, If she was not under cover...

Then why did they ask for it.

So SHe was under cover, she was "working" at a brass plate company.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. I hear this a lot too

Do you have a reliable source that I can show others?

[grannylib]

3. That Reich Wing bimbo on Tweety was saying the same thing tonight

It's just another desperate effort by the MSM whores and liars to discredit those who tell the truth about this unelected imbecile and his puppetmasters.

[DaveColorado]

10. Can someone provide a link about the CIA asking for the investigation?

I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

[SillyGoose]

18. Here you go from Time magazine 9/27/03

The CIA triggered the Justice inquiry with a memo saying that there may have been an unauthorized disclosure about the wife of Joe Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador.
...
The CIA is required to notify Justice if it believes there may have been an unauthorized disclosure. The notification was first reported Friday by MSNBC. The White House has denied being a source of any story about Wilson's wife.


CIA and Justice spokespersons declined comment, but an Administration official told TIME that the Justice is conducting a preliminary inquiry to "determine whether or not there should be an investigation" by the FBI.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,490646,00.html

[liveoaktx]

11. VIDEO

Smackdown by Tweety

[liberalnurse]

4. Please don't give these denial promoters any

credibility......They all remind me of the dysfunctional family wherein the mother stays in denial of her new boyfriend molesting her daughter. No difference....all the same kind of denial.

[Grateful for Hope]

8. Exactly n/t

[xray s]

It originated the same place that a turd blossom originates

deep in the bowels of BushCo.

[spindrifter]

5. If she wasn't covert

why was she working for Brewster-Jennings, a fake company that had other fake employees? If she wasn't covert, why didn't they just let her work straight up out of the CIA? Saying she was not covert is like trying to construct another fiction.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. The important point -- and all you have to tell the Bushbots --

is that the CIA itself says she was undercover. It was, after all, the CIA that requested the investigation in the first place, which they wouldn't have done if she hadn't been an undercover agent whose cover was blown.

[BuyingThyme]

If she neither wasn't that nor not before,

it probably wouldn't matter.

[Tinksrival]

7. OH FOR PETE'S SAKE !!!

I think it was Pete? Pete the repub?

[rateyes]

12. She was NOC...

as undercover as one can get...and, passing the classified info brought down a whole CIA operation...*, Cheney and the whole damned admnistration are traitorous criminals....every one of them.

[K-W]

13. It isnt your job to research thier bullshit.

Dont ever forget that.

Plame was most definately a noc.

[AlCzervik]

15. what, is your google is broken?

[DaveColorado]

17. Googling now

I like exposing their bullshit.

:P

Post if you find any links about the CIA asking for the investigation.

[K-W]

19. If the CIA didnt ask for it, there wouldnt be one.

You dont need a link to prove that one.

[Coexist]

20. LOL! Here's a link in case it is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58650-2003Oct7?language=printer

[Coexist]

21. Here is the one I was looking for - nails it.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/wilson.cia/
<snip>
Sources told CNN that Plame works in the CIA's Directorate of Operations -- the part of the agency in charge of spying -- and worked in the field for many years as an undercover officer.

"If she were only an analyst, not an operative, we would not have filed a crimes report" with the Justice Department, a senior intelligence official said.

[DaveColorado]

22. Another from msnbc

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0927-01.htm


Published on Saturday, September 27, 2003 by MSNBC
CIA Seeks Probe of White House
Agency asks Justice to investigate leak of employee’s identity
by MSNBC.com’s Alex Johnson with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell


WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman’s husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush’s since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa, NBC News has learned.