Valerie Plame Outed as CIA Agent Long Before Novak Column (by Aldrich Ames to the Russians)

NewsMax.com ^ | Saturday Oct. 11, 2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[jmstein7]

Valerie Plame, wife of Leakgate accuser Joseph Wilson, was outed as a CIA agent at least nine years before conservative columnist Robert Novak supposedly blew her cover three months ago in his column.

"The C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson's name (along with those of other spies) to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994," revealed the New York Times on Saturday.

In a column revealing the critical information for the first time since the Leakgate scandal exploded two weeks ago, Times columnist Nicholas Kristof explained that the Ames tip compromised Valerie Plame's undercover secrecy so thoroughly that "she was brought back to Washington for safety reasons."

At the time, he noted, Mrs. Wilson "was already in transition away from undercover work to management, and to liaison roles with other intelligence agencies. So this year, even before she was outed, she was moving away from 'noc' -- which means non-official cover."

What's more, said the Times writer, Mrs. Wilson's intelligence connections became known a bit in Washington as she rose in the C.I.A. - an assessment that stands in marked contrast to Mr. Wilson's portrayed of his wife's identity as being so secret that she was endangered when Novak revealed her name.

Concludes Kristof:

"All in all, I think the Democrats are engaging in hyperbole when they describe the White House as having put Mrs. Wilson's life in danger and destroyed her career; her days skulking along the back alleys of cities like Beirut and Algiers were already mostly over."

[.cnI redruM]

Ames, Wilson, Plame....

The CIA needs to be totaly reorganized. Something along the lines of MI6 or Mossad.

Uncivil Servant Bump!

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[polemikos]

All in all, I think the Democrats are engaging in hyperbole when:	_______________________________
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[Drammach]

Something I pointed out in another post.

Everyone in the government-intelligence world knew who Plame-Wilson was, except the American People.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[MJY1288]

Ping

[.cnI redruM]

So she was slightly less anonymous than Madonna!

[browardchad]

her days skulking along the back alleys of cities like Beirut and Algiers were already mostly over

Right -- a tall blonde skulking around the back alleys of Muslim land. Great undercover, and pure fiction.

Trouble is, there hasn't been any CIA agents skulking around alleys for many years -- they might get dirty.

[Ann Archy]

Beware of the Rosenberg-Wilsons.

[Just mythoughts]

Now exactly where do the Russians fit in?

Now Putin made some really strange comments at that press conference with President Bush. Who they were to I don't know, but to whom ever they were, he was telling them, "the gig is up" President Bush know what we've been up to.

I can only read between the lines as to what really is going on but Mr. Wilson and his own words removed all his credibility that he is on the up and up.

This whole saga is far more and much deeper than Novak's few words.

So "WHO" sent Mr. Wilson to Africa?

[Chu Gary]

It's truly a shame that the sitting President is so limited in changing the make-up of the agencies charged with supporting the leadership.

The Clintons packed the various agencies with hard-core Socialists during their 8 years, like FDR did. It will take years and years to get rid of these would-be Commies!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* !

[Lucy Lake]

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If I did, I'd be banned from Free Republic!

[dix]

Gracias

[Lady In Blue]

ping

[Lady In Blue]

I guess it's too much for the Dems and the chattering class to apologize to President Bush for their accusations against him and his administration? Oh,I think I'm forgetting something. Only Republicans apologize.Democrats don't. How silly of me?!

[Buffalo Head]

Why is there such concern about somebody doing exactly what Senator Frank Church (Dem-Idaho) did a quarter of a century ago? Church revealed the names of scores of CIA agents and operatives.

[river rat]

It's becoming clear that Wilson is just another puffed up, leftist girly boy.

He and the democrat leadership got more puffed up over this non-event -- than they did over 9-11....

It's clear the democrats view Bush and Republicans as the greater enemy they face.....

Imagine!

Semper Fi

[AZPubbie]

If Newsmax and Kristoff are right, then there probably wasn't any violation of the law.