Valerie Plame Covert agent?

Valerie Plame tells congress she WAS a covert agent.



March 17th, 2007


In response to new information to an earlier posting Libby leaked Plame’s covert CIA connection. A copy of which ran on the ABC New Blog I read the following response.

Facts………do not matter. This is about politics: Dems/Media vs Bush. It was never about justice/truth. There was no underlining crime. Say it with me! Plame was NOT a covert agent - read the defition. Fitzgerald was tasked w/ investigating who gave Robert Novak Plame’s name. From the start he knew it was Armitage. Case should have ended there.
If providing info on Plame was a crime - why wasn’t Armitage charged. Answer - because it was not a crime. Armitage was State Dept. NOT the Whitehouse. Armtage was against the Iraq War….not for it. Armitage is not a Bush supporter. Fitzgerald like in Moby Dick….went hunting the Whale and would not quite until he got someone for something. Libby was convicted for having a bad memory.Shame on Fitzgerald for being a political tool for the Democrats. : William Mar 12, 2007
In answer to the comment above Posted on ABC News Blog by: William Mar 12, 2007 12:05:22 AM. Where he said
“Plame was NOT a covert agent” this Is just plain untrue. Valerie Plame WAS A COVERT AGENT.
Former CIA officer Larry C. Johnson stated. “There is the claim that the law to protect intelligence identities could not have been violated because Valerie Wilson had not lived overseas for six years. Too bad this is not what the law stipulates. The law actually requires that a covered person “served” overseas in the last five years. Served does not mean lived. In the case of Valerie Wilson, energy consultant for Brewster-Jennings, she traveled overseas in 2003, 2002, and 2001, as part of her cover job. She met with folks who worked in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies. She was a national security asset until exposed “. . . .[19] Valerie was one of these, became a non-official cover officer. That meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. If caught in that status she would have been executed.
Talk about working without a net! Are the Democrats playing politics with this affair, absolutely. Is Libby a fall guy, absolutely. But was she a Covert Agent working overseas on matters of national security, absolutly. The CIA director Gen. Michael V. Hayden and the CIA issued a statement where they said the following: ”During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover. Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958. At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14, 2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert. This was classified information. Ms. Wilson served in senior management positions at the CIA, in which she oversaw the work of other CIA employees, and she attained the level of GS-14, step 6 under the federal pay scale. Ms. Wilson worked on some of the most sensitive and highly secretive matters handled by the CIA. Ms. Wilson served at various times overseas for the CIA. Without discussing the specifics of Ms. Wilson’s classified work, it is accurate to say that she worked on the prevention of the development and use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States. In her various positions at the CIA, Ms. Wilson faced significant risks to her personal safety and her life”.[29] Valerie Plame-Wilson was a covert agent who put her life on the line during a long career with the CIA. She was “Outed” by the Bush administration as a means of political revenge. She paid a great price by loosing her career. And our nation paid a great price by loosing an important agent and making it more difficult to recruit new agents. In our war with terrorism our most powerful weapon is information. Larry Lubell