[Toskrin]

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?

[GovernmentShrinker]

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.