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Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak (unclassified document details CIA employment)
MSNBarfC ^ | May 29, 2007 | Joel Seidman

Posted on 05/29/2007 3:40:41 PM PDT by lowbridge

An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

The summary is part of an attachment to Fitzgerald's memorandum to the court supporting his recommendation that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former top aide, spend 2-1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

The nature of Plame's CIA employment never came up in Libby's perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; cialeak; plame; plamegate
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To: lowbridge

It’s BS.


41 posted on 05/29/2007 6:01:04 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: mass55th

Plame’s husband indicates she leaks intel like a river
on the way to bed, so perhaps the author wasn’t from CIA.


42 posted on 05/29/2007 6:09:50 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Toskrin
Plame WAS covert. That’s why this was such a big deal. Libby, Armitage, etc. weren’t prosecuted for outing her because of national security reasons. Her cover was compromised. The agents who used Brewster-Jennings as cover were compromised - you can read about them on the Internet.

I would argue that the disclosure of the "secret CIA prisons" story was an infinitely more damaging leak to national security, and there wasn't a hint of prosecution on that one. In that light, the Libby prosecution still stinks to high heaven.

43 posted on 05/29/2007 6:10:34 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: denydenydeny

Does anybody else feel scared with the way this agency has been run for the past decade or so?


44 posted on 05/29/2007 6:39:58 PM PDT by Deek1969
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Plame was recalled from her last post as a covert agent in Russia in 1997, on the assumption that her covert status had been compromised by Aldrich Ames.

Do you have a source for that, outside of speculation by people who want this to go away?

45 posted on 05/29/2007 6:43:26 PM PDT by Toskrin (It's not what you do at your best, but what you do at your worst)
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To: james500
"So as a covert CIA officer, her cover was...a CIA employee?"

Yeah, a CIA employee who used her CIA cover company to donate money to Al Gore's campaign.

46 posted on 05/29/2007 6:53:57 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: denydenydeny
I would argue that the disclosure of the "secret CIA prisons" story was an infinitely more damaging leak to national security, and there wasn't a hint of prosecution on that one. In that light, the Libby prosecution still stinks to high heaven.

The "secret prison" story was nothing but manufactured outrage by the MSM. And where did people really think that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being held? He wasn't at Gitmo. Duh.

The most damaging leak was the revelation of the NSA monitoring of al Qaeda phone calls entering the USA. Tons of intel and hundreds of millions of dollars gone.

As far as Libby and Armitage go, they are no better than Wilson. Compromising our intelligence agency for political purposes is disgusting. It astonishes me that so many posters around here are cheerleaders for Libby just because they want to win a political victory.

47 posted on 05/29/2007 6:54:21 PM PDT by Toskrin (It's not what you do at your best, but what you do at your worst)
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To: Toskrin

Source? What planet have you been on? This information has been put out by way too many sources to start listing, including many (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post) that are hardly in the make-excuses-for-the-Bush-administration club. And it’s not like this is specific to Plame. It involved a huge number of covert operatives. Maybe you should look up the 1995 testimony to Congress of then CIA Director John Deutch to refresh your memory.


48 posted on 05/29/2007 8:11:38 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

It’s all bull. You know that right? If Plame was covert, she and her husband sure didn’t act like it. It was all good for laughs at their cocktail parties and it was a great introduction to Joe’s credibility but secret identity? Not even close. Hell! They even go as far as hold meetings with news journalists just so they can bolster their importance.

BUT I do notice however, the people that cry about a desk jockey’s identity been blown like Plames, they couldn’t care less about any other “secrets” being publish in the news. They in fact, more sooner encourage such secrets being published in the newspapers than not.

But lets get to the reality of the whole thing. That “make-excuses-for-the-Bush-administration club” gives me a clue where you stand but I think you stand in a very poor place at that.

When Armitage talked about the Plames to the reporters, it had nothing to do with neither the Bush administration nor their dictating but it was all a joke. I mean that is just what the Plames were/are.

They were talking about then Plames, the trip Joe Wilson took and the sad sad circumstances he went to Niger. Listen to that recording again, read the transcript of it again and you can see the humor from it all. It was also, laughing at the sadist part of all, they were laughing at the CIA and how they handled the whole thing.

It doesn’t make me feel very secure knowing how inept the CIA is and after they get all that funding for doing something as stupid to send a crackpot like Joe Wilson do anything for them.

Maybe the Bush administration was wrong. Maybe they were wrong that once hearing how it all came down and how messed up it all went, sending Joe Wilson on such a mission like that, the Bush Administration should have did an investigation on what the heck is going on at the CIA and who all there is on drugs? They need to ask, what ever the CIA do, why is it always wrong? Why did they even keep Plame in the CIA in the first place. They must know she was nowhere near able to carry out her function in that outfit.


49 posted on 05/30/2007 9:43:48 AM PDT by Tut
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To: lowbridge
An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

Any CIA agent is "covert" when overseas. When back on American assignment, they are not "covert".
50 posted on 05/30/2007 9:46:01 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: lowbridge; All
Did ya see this? (link only---USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070530/a_plame30.art.htm

 

51 posted on 05/30/2007 10:00:52 AM PDT by txroadkill ( http://iraqstar.org)
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To: lowbridge

http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/05/29/the-msm-covers-for-plame-once/


52 posted on 05/31/2007 3:43:44 AM PDT by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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