The statement can also indicate others or another. Or even that Plame/Wilson or either are responsible for such an action.
There could still be someone else, yet to be identified, is the point because as to Plame, whatever her status, she was not being secretive nor "covert" in her employment status with The Agency and seems to have quite literally been taunting people to CALL her "a secret agent" for purposes of something similar to a "trip and fall" claim against a business.
I find the VANITY FAIR photos and their Plame/Wilson eagerness and willingness to participate in a COVER STORY with SPREADSHEET PHOTO of them both PRIOR TO their claims that she was "outed" to be a tad too eager to be found out.
They could very well be covering for someone else, is my point, which makes far more sense to me, trying to lead people astray as to target and individual/s involved...it seems to me to be the "hey, over HERE" ruse to send a pursuit over the border, so to speak.
After a while, you'd think Valerie would start to wonder how her husband...Joe...really fits into her future. Its obvious that Joe used her for his own political purposes, and she probably knows that Joe has a goal plan in his head...which might not include her in five years. This whole becomes a rather amusing episode if you dig into Joe and his little career.