It's Official: Valerie Plame WAS Covert at time of Outing

[Holly_Hobby]

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." Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January 2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business." The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times." When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."

Criminal prosecution beat national security
After the Novak column was published and Plame's identity was widely reported in the media, and according to the document, "the CIA lifted Ms Wilson's cover" and then "rolled back her cover" effective to the date of the leak.

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

[helderheid]

1. rec 3 and a

:kick:

[AnnieBW]

2. Duh...

Take THAT, Limpballs!

Justice for Valerie!!!

:kick:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. And the Freepers wept

It's got to be tough always being proven wrong. Oh, wait, they'll just ignore this and continue to spout their fantasy based talking points.

[JuniperLea]

5. LOL!

it's all a democrat plot... and i'm sure it's all clinton's fault anyway.

:toast:

[Kingofalldems]

4. But Matalin and Toensing say she wasn't

And they know everything.:rofl:

[Disturbed]

6. All of the Criminals that outed her will never receive Prison

Terms. Libby deserves at least 10 years in Prison but my guess its that he will only serve around six months until Busholini pardons him.

[librechik]

8. this document addresses their particular concerns

so unless they are merely demonic mouthpieces from hell, they will drop this line of dicourse.

Sentencing for Libby coming up in a week, we'll see how they do. They should also apologize to Valerie and the country for misleading us.

(yeah, that'll happen.)

[Kagemusha]

7. That's slick. The defense can't claim this prejudiced the jury now

and Fitz can argue that it is an aggravating factor during sentencing.

[mmonk]

9. So what made them report this so many years later?

Not exactly breaking news.

[dave123williams]

10. I wonder if those fuckwits will apologize? I wonder if they'll even mention it?

Probably not; stuff that doesn't fit in to their little 'hate construct' is discarded.

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. If the media were liberal, this would be a top story.

:kick:

[tabasco]

12. Black market nuclear material is the #1 threat to our national security.

Kerry and the smirking fratboy agreed on this during the debates.

Exposing this spy operation was a VERY serious breach of security.

Cheney doesn't give a shit about this country, just his bank account and power.

The Bush mafia is an enemy of this Nation.

[myrna minx]

13. K&R, n/t

[sellitman]

14. This will force Limbaugh to up his Oxycontin intake.

:rofl: :rofl:

[FogerRox]

15. I had no idea...wow... KnR

[ComerPerro]

16. I think we're way past that. The spin has already been pretty well established.

[benld74]

17. We knew it, they knew it, it just took all this f*cking time for the official word to come out thats

how they operate folks. While we try like hell to prove things out, they continue on their merry raping and pillaging to their hearts content.