[alnick]

I read a bio earlier today which was linked from another thread, but the only mention of the wife was her name, not her profession. Maybe there's something else out there.

[dogbyte12]

There are reports bubbling that Valerie Plame was actually an operative for a while, but became an analyst after her husband retired.

Who knows on that one. The other thing I just googled up was Novak's comments after he wrote his column and he was being questioned on it.

Novak is dissembling. Either now or then. On July 22nd, this ran in Newsday

Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."

I don't know honestly if Novak was telling the truth then when he said it was handed to him, and she was an operative, or now when he said that it was during a routine interview and she was only an analyst.

Novak is not telling the truth at one point in time here. It's a question of which Novak you want to believe.