Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It, Subtitled Valerie Plame Was A Covert Agent

Well, this says it all, now doesn't it!

At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the mdeia of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States.

UPDATE: It's funny how lots of the right wing blogs are denying this to be true! They keep saying if this was TRUE, then Richard Armitage should have been indicted ... oh, how hard my sides ache from laughing. It really doesn't matter what the truth is, the agenda of the Republican right wing is always deny, deny and deny. Valerie Plame was never outed, she arranged for her husband to make the trip to Niger, and Saddam WAS trying to buy yellow cake, but, you know, Plame and Wilson just had it out for Bush, so Wilson just LIED and said the memo was a fake. Yeah, that's the ticket. This little tidbit says it all.

Excuse me? A “Grandfathered Status” of covert. Sorry, no “apples” here. First, the fact is that “if” she held covert status it would have been revealed and protected at the time when Novak notified CIA officials of the story. “Taking measures” my ass. Either she was or wasn’t and that’s what I’ve been saying from the beginning. When Novak called Bill Harlow and Harlow had to hang up and then call back, I told you that was BS. All he had to do was punch her name up in the computer on his desk and he could have told Novak straight out she was protected.

Fact is that she wasn’t. Harlow knew who she was as she had already been stripped of duties for her little scheme sending “honey bunch” to Niger (a rather embarrassing screw up I might add). What is a fact is that having been relieved of duties from CIO a full year prior - in 2002, by June of 2003 she was working in a non-covert status in Langley.

Fact is that Plame still is the key to the real story about her and her rogue buds were trying to pull off prior to the war. This story is simply another bow-shot to keep others off the trail, especially after her false testimony earlier this month.

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If in fact the documents now produced had any such validity it would have been basically a cake walk to pin a violation of the IIPA on Libby. Hell, with that DC jury they pinned heresay on him, why not? It tells you a lot that there wasn’t any such veracity placed on the documents which translated means the fact that the were written up after the fact didn’t pass the smell test.

The shit from the Republican deniers just never ends. The need to pretend to be "in the know" is so fifth grade.