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.
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.