It would have been very easy for the administration to wreck her career without anyone ever knowing. A simple call to George Tenet would have had her reassigned to an obscure, dead-end position.
Furthermore, if she were so concerned about keeping her identity secret, she should have reigned in her flamboyant hubby, who himself made the claim that the CIA had sent him to Niger in an op-ed piece in the New York Times.
36 posted on 10/06/2003 6:47:14 AM PDT by Miss Marple