"Yeah Ditter, but think about it. IF they think they won something...they will spend their time on that...and not an agenda."
They have no agenda... but what I find most disturbing here is that nobody seems to care about finding and punishing the SOB who exposed a CIA agent. Our human intelligence capabilities are already in the basement and this type of thing (exposing an agent) would make a potential recruit think twice about working for us... and that can only hurt US. This is a clear case of politicians turning a national security issue into a political circus. That'll hurt us in the end too.
Your assuming that she was covert. All signs show that she was not. Seems she lost that status some time ago. ALSO...SHE OUTED HERSELF.
EVEN ANDREA MITCHELL (wife of Alan Greenspan and NBC reporter) told Chris Matthews on Hardball that it was well known in social DC circles what Plame did.....BECAUSE PLAME TOLD PEOPLE.
Potential recruits already have scenarios like this to worry about
Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a spy in Moscow.