Is my understanding correct that Plame worked daily at CIA headquarters? Did she commute there in her own car? Is it easy to enter such a place unnoticed? Are foreign intelligence agencies so weak as not to be able to spot the vehicle? Is the vehicle also covert? Will you have to kill me if you tell me these things?
"Is my understanding correct that Plame worked daily at CIA headquarters? Did she commute there in her own car? Is it easy to enter such a place unnoticed? Are foreign intelligence agencies so weak as not to be able to spot the vehicle? Is the vehicle also covert? "
I don't know if WINPAC (Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center) is located at headquarters. It is openly under the Directorate of Intelligence so my guess is that it is. It was created in early 2001--3 staffs of analysts and engineers/scientists were merged together. I don't know if Plame was already on one of those staffs, but you would have had a mixture of open and covert employees on those staffs.
Headquarters at Langley are not right off the road, not visible from the road, but it's no secret where you turn off the road to go in. Clearly Mir Aimal Kasi, who shot the agency workers as they sat in their cars waiting to turn in, knew exactly where they were going, where they worked.
Certainly anyone, individual or foreign agency, can sit and monitor who's going in day in and day out. But that info is not going to be all that useful to them. Wilson, Plame and all their indignant buddies know that she wasn't doing business with any outside folks under the name of Wilson or Plame. None of her work would be compromised because neither name should be attached to any outside contact involving her job. They all know that and are getting people whipped up over nothing.
I was only try to say originally that it's kind of a waste of energy to devote much time to analyzing was she covert or not. If she wasn't, it wouldn't have gone beyond the first day. Anyone could look at her file and see yes or no. It's that black and white. It diverts attention from the real story and makes it look like we're hiding behind a technicality. She clearly was undercover.
"Will you have to kill me if you tell me these things?"
Just don't track me down. ;)