Cindy Sheehan says Plame was 'covert' agent at time of name leak

[MonkeyFunk]

OK.... I edited the title to hope somebody might actually read this important news. It has nothing to do with Cindy Sheehan.

Newly released unclassified document details CIA employment
By Joel Seidman

NBC News
Updated: 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

The summary is part of an attachment to Fitzgerald's memorandum to the court supporting his recommendation that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former top aide, spend 2-1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

The nature of Plame's CIA employment never came up in Libby's perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

Undercover travel
The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14, 2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."


More at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18924679/

[MonkeyFunk]

1. sad that this

can't get any attention amid all the vanity Sheehan threads.

[Bluebear]

6. Vanity?

[MonkeyFunk]

10. yes

vanity. Not every member needs to start his or her own thread to express whatever thought has already been expressed a thousand times.

[Bluebear]

12. Then why aer you co-opting Sheehan's name to call attention to YOUR thread?

[MonkeyFunk]

13. Because it was up for 10 minutes with

no replies at all, then I edited the title and it got a 8 replies in about 3 minutes.

Why do you give a fuck?

[Bluebear]

14. You know, something? I finally don't give a fuck about reading any more of your posts.

Buh-bye.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. I'll try

to find a way to soldier on, though I will miss all the emotion.

[tandot]

2. K & R. How sad that Libby is the only one who got convicted.

I want Rove's ass in jail.

[Coexist]

3. clever ploy!

knr

[MonkeyFunk]

7. lol...

had no responses under the original title. 4 new ones in two minutes after I edited.

[Coexist]

15. Did you see this forgotten thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=991729&mesg_id=991729

Larry Johnson addresses this at No Quarter, too.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. hehe...

that's great

[ProSense]

4. Video: Cheney implies he declassified CIA agent Plame's identity

Video: Cheney implies he declassified CIA agent Plame's identity.

Declassify the name of a covert agent?

:rofl:

[blogslut]

5. Covert covert covert

She was covert. There was a crime.

And Scooty is getting sentenced next week!

[Cameron27]

8. This will be good for her civil case,

it's a shame Fitz couldn't take it higher than Libby.

/forgot: K&R :-)

[magellan]

9. Known all along

Only anti-fact freeper types refuse to believe she was covert, even after the CIA made it abundantly obvious by starting a freakin' investigation into WHO HAD OUTED HER. I doubt this will persuade any knuckle-draggers at this point, but it's still important to repeat it.

PLAME WAS COVERT.

[ProSense]

11. VIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers “Most Insidious of Traitors”

VIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers “Most Insidious of Traitors”

[MonkeyFunk]

17. Yep....

This is a very important story - it needs more attention.


We all knew she was covert, but now it's being reported in the mainstream media.

[Annces]

19. Good one

What a lot of hub bub.