[blogblogginaway]

"she still works for the CIA and is not in a position to publicly defend her reputation and honor."

I thought I just read she was on a leave of absence?

[doug from upland]

Here we go. Anti-Bush moles in the agency want to try to do some damage to him. When does Porter Goss finally clean house?

[dila813]

Who made whom a political football?

[Darkwolf377]

"she still works for the CIA and is not in a position to publicly defend her reputation and honor."

She just returned from a leave of absence, but I guess she doesn't have the right to free speech? Just the right to pose for photos for Vanity Fair?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

11 out of thousands.
Make that 11 anonymous EX-intel officers. Okay, I'm convinced....NOT! It's a shame they could not put their names out there. Afraid of scrutiny?

[silverleaf]

In the case of Valerie Plame, she still works for the CIA and is not in a position to publicly defend her reputation and honor."

She can only appear on the cover of "Vanity Fair" with her blowhard narcissistic husband who has shredded her reputation and her honor by boasting about how Valerie "outed" her Agency affiliation to him during a "heavy makeout session" on their third date....when he was still married to another woman, btw.

[Finalapproach29er]

Why did she draw attention to herself by doing a (glib) photo shoot for Vanity Fair?

[syriacus]

Mommygate:
Joe Wilson said it's illogical to think Valerie would have pushed to have him sent overseas, since she needed him at home to help with the twins.

[kcvl]

Eleven former intelligence officers

Why didn't the AP name them?!

If the CIA wants respect they need to earn it. Maybe they should spend more time worrying about TERRORISTS than sending a political hack to Niger to try to take down a sitting president.

I still want the name of THE PERSON who signed off on sending the LIAR to Niger.

[Marauder]

This is total BS; she hasn't been covert in something like 9 years. There was no provision of the law broken whatsoever.

DemocRats are trolls.

[drpix]

Isn't reassuring to know that even if the CIA can't infiltrate covert agents into the ranks of those trying to destroy the U.S., the DNC has no trouble infiltrating covert party partisans into the ranks of the CIA? Real reassuring!

[FlingWingFlyer]

This probably explains why they are former intelligence officers.

[Cboldt]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446721/posts <- Xref

[MinuteGal]

I read the other day that Ms. Plame-Wilson is still working for the CIA in a desk-jockey job on a part-time basis.

Leni

[hgro]

Those C.I.A. types know how to pile it wide and deep don't they. This organization is going to be on a short leash from now on with the reorganization and establishment of the Homeland Security Department.

The so called mission of Wilson (at the urging of secret agent Plum) was cooked up with the express purpose of damaging President Bush by the clique in the spy agency. It didn't work and now they are trying to cover their butts.

[smonk]

you can find 11 fools anyplace. including, apparently, the CIA.

[conshack]

Eleven former intelligence officers are speaking up on behalf of CIA officer Valerie Plame

You don't suppose the "former" intelligence officers were part of the housecleaning project do ya?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Anyone who wants to know where the Wilsons live-down to almost the exact street address, can find that info in the latest Time magazine article:

" Life After the Leak -TIME visits with Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson at their home in Washington "
July 18,2005 Matthew Calabresi

Val and Joe willingly supply to Time Magazine many personal details of their private life including :
the location of their home ,
a description of the exterior
a description of the interior,
a description of their garage and the kids toys
the make and model of car they drive,
their names as listed on their mortgage and credit cards,
a physical description of Mrs Wilson,
and the view from their back yard ( in case the earlier descriptions were not specific enough. )

Their lawyer appeared on the Chris Matthew's " Tour de Rove Marathon " and identifed himself not only by name, but, as their next door neighbor.
As a father, I am disgusted that the Wilsons not only allowed Time magazine to print a road map to their house, but, they allowed Time to identify their young children by name and age.
What kind of sickos are the Wilsons ?

[putupjob]

Valerie Plame. From google images.

[Spirited]

What stupid people.!

Why did her husband make this a political football, then?
Wonder whether, like Felt, they were passed over by Daddy.

[lepton]

There are thousands of U.S. intelligence officers who work at a desk in the Washington, D.C., area every day who are undercover as Plame was when her identity was leaked, the 11 former officers said in a three-page statement.

What exactly does that mean?