It's all chicken and no egg, Pinch. Why? Because she wasn't NOC, she was a desk jockey, and apparently well known inside and outside the Agency. So just eat a salad and relax, hippie. You got nothing.
You're absolutely right, of course...but there will still be Republican Administration folks indicted, and the 'Rats will gorge and feast on that point for next year's conveniently timed election cycle.
I can already hear Nancy Puke-losi shrieking about "corruption"...
Wilson was selling his story around town for months before his July column to Novak.
Even Andrea Mitchell said she all the reporters in town knew Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
Wilson and his wife were part of the social scene in washington. There was no secret.
That is what I have understood from the get-go. So then, why was a Special Prosecutor assigned to find the 'leak'?
I love your writing. Looks like something I might say.
Since you seem to be so in the dark on the Valerie Plame case, and her status in the CIA, I am more than happy to enlighten you, friend.
Valerie Plame was NOT a desk jockey.
She was a covert CIA operative with unofficial cover.
Do you know what that means?
It means that she were to go overseas somewhere, as part of her job, and she got kidnapped or taken hostage, the United States would not provide any official help to rescue her.
There are some CIA operatives who actually have "cover," so if they were to go overseas and get kidnapped, the U.S. would provide resources to help rescue them.
Because of Valerie Plame's status as someone with unofficial cover, the United States would not have validated her identity and tried to rescue her.
She put her life on the line for her country, to work on issues of weapons of mass destruction, and her government repaid her by outing her for purely political reasons.
This whole thing is so ridiculous and the leftists are only giving aid and comfort to the enemy for trying to take down president George W. Bush. I pray that Libby and Rove are not charged or indicted for anything and that the leftists like Schmuck Schumer and his ilk are destroyed. We are in a war.