[Quick1]

Plame's supervisor, Foley suddenly retired when this story went public two summers ago.

I'm sure there were plenty of people forced into retirement when the story broke. We know for sure the fake place she was using as her job had to be shut down because of it. Even if she wasn't covert at the time, if she was covert in the past, anything she touched and anyone she talked to were burned.

[lugsoul]

"Even if she wasn't covert at the time, if she was covert in the past, anything she touched and anyone she talked to were burned."

Bingo. That, my wise FRiend, is why we have a GJ investigation. There doesn't seem to be much dispute that she was NOC in the past, with Brewster-Jennings. She wasn't the only person 'employed' by that company. And I'm guessing that she and other 'employees' in that 'energy consulting company' had an asset or two in the part of the world where all the energy comes from.