Posted on 07/27/2005 10:54:15 AM PDT by Sam Hill
Thats what makes this even screwier, I don't believe he did at least that is what I have been lead to believe. I think Jim Quinn even said that this morning
"I still would like to know the legal implication if any, of the possibility that she was in fact fairly well known as a CIA employee? Even if it was just casually among cocktail friends. More specifically would this negate any claim of blown "Cover" if all her pals knew who she was?"
Insofar as the "Agee Law" (that I cited above) is concerned:
She can out herself. Newspapers and non-government (intel) people can out her--as long as they don't make a pattern out of outing agents.
But if she worked overseas undercover in the prior five years, a government type cannot out her. But since she doesn't fit that prerequisite, even a government type (such as Rove) could legally out her.
So as far as that law ("The Agee Law") goes, there doesn't seem to be any law broken. I don't know if any others apply, but they've never been mentioned.
In fact it has been reported that the CIA referral to the Justice Department did not even cite the "Agee law." So they might have been going after something else altogether.
"My parents knew me as 'Harriet'. I couldn't tell them
that my name was Valerie, and I searched for WMD."
For an account that shows that the CIA is truly in dismal condition, one only need read this "true life" memoir from a former CIA covert agent who actually says she was inspired to sign up with the CIA by "Harriet the Spy" stories:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399152393/qid=1122493379/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/104-2488728-9006364
I would have thought she'd be deeply embarrassed to come off as such a shallow, vapid poor excuse for a CIA agent.... she lasted only a few years and wasted all of our tax dollars and human resources devoted to her training.... if Valerie Plame was at all like her then we really are in bad shape in the CIA.
My hunch is, and correct me if I'm wrong, that they, MSM etc are probably only getting info from the Grand Jury testimony of their "friends". Since the testimony is suppose to be a secret I doubt whether they are getting info from all who testify, thus only a selective picture of things.
By the way wasn't it actually Ashcroft that OK'd the investigation? And wasn't it the white house that was more concerned about leaks at least until this broke.
"BTW, if Joe was sent by the CIA to do an investigation, he must have signed some sort of non-disclosure agreement.
Thats what makes this even screwier.."
According to the Senate Intelligence subcommittee's investigation into the Iraq WMD business...Joe Wilson was not made to sign a non-disclosure agreement. He was issued an "Operational Secret" clearance for the trip. Upon his return from Niger, the CIA debriefed him in his home while Valerie(Agent 99) served cofee.
I beleive the law was broken here....
I guess that the Agency had a "talent scouting" operation at her elementary school?
Similar to Tim McCarver's claim to have caught in the majors in 4 decades (but only 22 years when you really look at it)....
I hope Porter Goss is swinging a huge broadaxe around over at the CIA these days. We need to clean out all these Liberal weenies, and quick.
"Under Cover Brutha's got a Johnson dat Larry went undercover with".
If not then it was at least very careless.
It really seems that the whole liberal axis went thru pains taking measures to not cross the "legal" line on issues they seemed destined to use against this administration while at the same time pushing right up to it in an apparent effort of a setup....IMO
The CIA did not ask him to sign a non-disclosure agreement...I will see if I can find a good link for that info.
Indeed. Ritter's "documentary" was funded by an Iraqi-American (name escapes) who also just happened to be one of the beneficiaries of Oil-for-Food vouchers.
bttt
The Senate Report is here
Danged .pdf files...it keeps locking up my computer so I can't get the actual quote from it about the confidentiality agreement. Maybe someone else on DSL can get it from that link.
1. CIA agent linked to Collegian Abstract: Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003. CIA agent linked to Collegian. By Rachel Spivak. Collegian Staff Writer. The classified life of Valerie Plame, whose name was leaked as an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) originated in the offices of the Daily Collegian in the 1980s. Plame, a marketing manager of the Daily Collegian in 1984 and a 1985 Penn State graduate, left State College to embark on a top-secret life in Washington, D.C. Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, first pub . . . http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/10/10-09-03tdc/10-09-03dnews-08.asp - last edit: 10/9/2003 4:42:06 - hit count: 17 - rank: 1,000 (0 to 1000) - size: 6,796 bytes
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/10/10-09-03tdc/10-09-03dnews-08.asp
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