Posted on 05/30/2007 12:35:06 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
In a court filing today, Patrick Fitzgerald provides a summary of Valerie Plame Wilson's status with the CIA's Counterproliferation Division at the time she was outed to the press by members of the Bush administration. Guess what? She was covert:
While assigned to CPD, Ms. Wilson engaged in temporary duty (TDY) travel overseas on official business. She traveled at least seven times to more than ten countries. When traveling overseas, Ms. Wilson always traveled under a cover identity — sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias — but always using cover — whether official or non-official cover (NOC) — with no ostensible relationship to the CIA.At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States.
...she had been working under cover outside the U.S. quite extensively during the previous five years, which means that Plame almost certainly qualified as "covert" under the specific definitions outlined in IIPA. Nonetheless, for some reason Fitzgerald decided not to bring outing charges against anyone. This suggests that Mark Kleiman has been right all along: Fitzgerald's decision had nothing to do with technical aspects of IIPA, but rather with its scienter requirements.
That is, the leakers had to know that leaking Plame's name could be damaging, and Fitzgerald didn't think he had the evidence to make that case. That might have been especially true since the leaks seem to have been authorized at very high levels, something the leakers could have used in their defense at trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Does this change anything?
It does mean SHE should be punished.
In effect, it changes nothing.
Now why oh why was this game successfully used under the Clintons?????
No... and where is the barf alert? How was Plame outed if there wasn't any evidence to prosecute the leakers?
Soooo, if you use your real name you're still under a cover identity? I don't think so.
I think it's from CBS. The network of Dan Rather.
By Richard Armitage, yet Scooter Libby was targeted.
Fitzfong went after political game, not the actual wrongdoer.
What a surprise.
“My wife was not covert at the time that she was outed.”- Joe Wilson on the Wolf Blitzer Show
It's a lie. But that wont stop the liberal media and the liberal bloggers from running with this lie.
Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak (unclassified document details CIA employment)
Her "name" was known from her own entry in a Who's Who publication. The fact she was employed at the CIA in Langley was known from the parking sticker on her vehicle.
There was nothing to leak.
Besides, there's no way to authenticate the information in this supposed filing.
More importantly, Wilson's SECOND wife, a French undercover agent, had her cover blown by the Wilson and Plame bleatings.
I thought this was SOP for CIA regardless of status.
Not unless the below does!
Fact-Checking Valerie Plame Wilson, Pt. 1(Plame lied to Congress-Under Oath)
No kidding.
How dare he knowingly involve a cover agent in ongoing public controversy by writing articles for the New York Times about evnts in which said agent is intrinsically involved!!!!!
The author read that somewhere...
He wrote it down and then he read it.
I guess that means I'm deep, deep, deep cover!
If so then Dick Armitage is toast, given that he ADMITTED to outting her to Novak.
BS, if she was walking to and from her car in the parking lot of the CIA office in DC she’s not COVERT... period.
Anyone could see her entering and leaving the facility, there is no way you have “covert” if you are walking into and out of the building in front of the public every day.
No, most non-covert CIA employees wear "I work for the CIA" sweatshirts when traveling abroad.
That's so nobody tries to eff with them.
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