There’s no doubt that she (that is, her name in connection with her CIA status) was a secret that wasn’t supposed to be released,

tell that to her husband who put it into the Who’s Who’s book…the fact of that matter is that the only thing that matters is the law. She was not covert.

Be that it may, it’s quite ironic that after libby is convicted for perjury we now find out plame perjured herself. Just can’t make this stuff up.

But whether or not she was legally covered by IIPC, the CIA claims she was covert (as they define it) at the time she was outed. There’s no doubt that she (that is, her name in connection with her CIA status) was a secret that wasn’t supposed to be released, or that that secret was released, perhaps by people who were (& in some cases still are) in the White House. Whether or not it was an intentional act or classified as a crime, that release of secret info should concern everyone who cares about the security of this country.

Often, it doesn’t seem that it does, however…

Hey dumbass! Foreign countries wouldn’t know Plame’s “real name” unless it was, say, LEAKED!

Whoever would have heard of Plame’s name in the context of CIA employment? Well I guess whoever Aldridge Ames leaked it to. Then of course there was that fax to the Swiss consulate in Cuba…

Finally, and this is of course the best one, the CIA’s own PR person (Obey I believe was his name) confirming her employment to Mr. Novak.

Either way you lefties are a dense bunch. CIA believed she was covert, the IIPC doesn’t. Which one matters?

One guess…..

Yup, the IIPC.

But we all know how much you value no one leaking sensitive information don’t we?

Friggin hypocrites.

I’ll go with Curt’s opinion. After all, he can type.

Looks pretty cut and dried.

Yup, CIA believed her to be covert while she is not covert via IIPC…cut n dried.

It would be interesting if you were ever proven right on anything.

Read the blog daily, instead of when the yahoo’s at salon or tbogg links to me and you will find out I’m right plenty, including Jamil.

BTW, the real story here is that the Bush White House doesn’t care about weapons proliferation, terrorism, or national security.
They will sacrafice the safety of Americans to pursue their own agenda, which has nothing at all to do with national security.

Puhlease. A story about Plame becomes a DummiesU talking point. Gag.

Hey dumbass! Foreign countries wouldn’t know Plame’s “real name” unless it was, say, LEAKED!

Oh really jerkoff? All they had to do was look at the who who’s book. Ignorance everywhere when it comes to you salon and tbogg readers.

Bobdevo…get it straight, her status was NOT covert as covered under the IIPC. You can believe she was all you want, you can stomp your feet on the ground while wailing “she was covert dammit!” but it does not make it true.

If she was covert as covered by the IIPC there would have been someone charged for that crime, because we all know who leaked it…cough Armitage cough….but she wasn’t covert so no crime. Instead he spends millions to get a perjury charge. Pathetic.

but blowhard bloggers and idiots like Victoria Toensing

That is classic. The person who drafted the IIPC is now an idiot.

Classic.

Can’t get any better then that.

I think it was either the latter or none of the above.

Plame acted under NOC - non-offical cover. Subsequent to Jan 1 2002 she traveled outside the country at the behest of the CIA seven times to 10 countries. If captured, she would not have been protected by diplomatic immunity. Her life and liberty were at risk when she was on assignment - but blowhard bloggers and idiots like Victoria Toensing - pronounced her “not covert” without any knowledge of the details of her comings and goings, all in a failed effort to deflect attention away from the treasonous behavior of Scooter Libby - who will soon be serving time in a Federal prison - and Dick Cheney - the well-known draft dodger and drunk driver.

BTW, the real story here is that the Bush White House doesn’t care about weapons proliferation, terrorism, or national security.
They will sacrafice the safety of Americans to pursue their own agenda, which has nothing at all to do with national security.

Play YBC (Yeah, But Clinton…) with that!

Wow, who’d a thunk it? A professional, trained liar might need a lawyer.

Plame called on to explain varied accounts
By Richard Willing, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Former CIA officer Valerie Plame should explain “differences” in her various accounts of how her husband was sent to the African nation of Niger in 2002 to investigate reports Iraq was trying to buy uranium there, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said.

Plame’s differing versions have furthered “misinformation” about the origins of the case that roiled official Washington beginning in July 2003, said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. Plame gave those accounts to the CIA’s inspector general, Senate investigators and a House committee in March.

A February 2002 CIA memo released last week as part of a study of pre-Iraq-war intelligence shows that Plame suggested her husband, former State Department official Joseph Wilson, for the Niger trip, Bond said. That “doesn’t square” with Plame’s March testimony in which she said an unnamed CIA colleague raised her husband’s name, Bond told USA TODAY.

Here are Plame’s three versions of how Wilson was sent to Niger, Bond said:

•She told the CIA’s inspector general in 2003 or 2004 that she had suggested Wilson.

•Plame told Senate Intelligence Committee staffers in 2004 that she couldn’t remember whether she had suggested Wilson.

•She told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March that an unidentified person in Vice President Cheney’s office asked a CIA colleague about the African uranium report in February 2002. A third officer, overhearing Plame and the colleague discussing this, suggested, “Well, why don’t we send Joe?” Plame told the committee.

CIA officials have been unable to verify Plame’s March version, Bond said. Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman, said the “public record on the matter is extensive, and, at this point, I can’t add anything to it.”

Plame’s identity as an undercover CIA operative was revealed after Wilson accused the Bush administration of ignoring his Africa findings. The disclosure of Plame’s status led to a federal investigation that culminated in former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Libby is scheduled to be sentenced next Tuesday. In court papers made public last weekend, prosecutors recommended he be sentenced to 30 to 37 months in prison.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she’s not sure whether Rockefeller would support having committee investigators interview Plame. The priority for Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is finishing the committee’s investigation into Iraq war intelligence, Wendy Morigi said.

Bond said he has written to the CIA for permission to re-interview Plame.

Plame has “always been very consistent that she is not the person responsible for sending Joe Wilson” to Africa, said Melanie Sloan, Plame’s attorney.

Questioning Plame’s truthfulness now, she said, is an attempt to draw attention from the “real wrong here — a White House that outed a covert operative and undermined national security.”

Wilson, a former ambassador to Gabon, said later that he had found nothing to support the report that Iraq was trying to buy uranium for a secret nuclear program from Niger.

In July 2003, Wilson wrote a column in /The //New York Times /accusing the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence by including the erroneous report in the president’s State of the Union address the previous January — two months before the war began.

Days later, Plame’s CIA employment was revealed by syndicated columnist Robert Novak. Plame and Wilson said the implication that she had used her CIA status to arrange her husband’s Niger trip was false. The disclosure, they argued, was meant to discredit Wilson and his findings by suggesting that the trip was merely a junket.

And, any trips she took using “official” cover — i.e., she passed herself off as a government official, just not an intelligence agent of the CIA — likely don’t count under the statute.

from the article:

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.”

Looks pretty cut and dried.