I heard Rush say yesterday that Valerie Plame had not been an outside Agent in over nine years. Can anyone verify that? If so, why aren't we hearing more of that. If she was just a regular CIA employee, not a covert agent, what would be the crime?
CIA officer named prior to column - July 23, 2004
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMESThe identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.
Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040722-115439-4033r.htm
The terms "plame" "moscow" "ames" in a Google search turn up a number of similar articles.
The function of the media is not to illuminate the truth.
Even if Rove had given Plames name to Novak, highly doubtful (I think Powell or Tennant did it), he would have to have gotten the name from classified information to which he was entitled as part of his job, for it to be illegal. From what I read a few days ago there are like five or six factors that must be true for a crime to have been committed. Its likely that Fitzgerald is working on perjury charge.