Lone_Gunman
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It is interesting how the Bush-o-philes have no problem with what Scooter Libby did, but when Bill Clinton and Martha Stewart do the exact same thing, they have no problem with prosecuting them.
Valerie Plame was not covert. She couldn't have been "outed" because there was nothing to "out."
Plame had the perfect cover as a CIA agent who was married to a diplomatic envoy.
Now, let me splain this to ya. Plame was not a COVERT agent at the time of thel "outing" by Armitage
Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, et al are traitors and should be hanged as such.
It would appear that the CIA disagrees with you on that point.
I agree it's total BS. Cronyism at its finest. However, the Democratic presidential candidates are making hay with this commutation. I think it's hypocritical when they stand up there and chide Bush for this when Bubba did it and that was fine.
It's been done before and it will be done again.
Do you actually have any evidence to support your claims (CIA statements to the contrary) or all y'all just going to keep repeating it until everyone gives up?Any covert status she may have had in the past was over with five years before the "outing", so it dosen't matter.
Any covert status she may have had in the past was over with five years before the "outing", so it dosen't matter. Plus Joe Wilson had outed her himself many times before any of this came up ("..my CIA wife...").
Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January 2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business." The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times." When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."
Nonofficial cover. NOCs (the word rhymes with "rocks") are the most covert CIA operatives. They typically work abroad without diplomatic protection (often they pretend to work for some commercial enterprise). If these spies are caught, there's no guarantee that the United States would admit their true identities. When using official cover could put a spy's life and work at risk, NOC is the only alternative.
She did use cover. Now, the two terms are not the same.