[cyncooper]

Valery Plame was, at the time of the "disclosure", Assistant Director of the WMD investigations division of the CIA..

Thanks.

Do you know anything about Alan Foley? I think he was her boss and he left the agency last September, right around the time Wilson successfully kicked up enough noise to get this investigation revved up.

[Drammach]

http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_09/Iraquraniumchronology.asp

January 2003:
White House staff members decide to include a reference to Iraqi attempts to procure uranium from Africa in the State of the Union speech. During a discussion about the intelligence on this matter, NSC staff member Robert Joseph insists that information about the uranium procurement attempt be included in the speech, according to later accounts from several U.S. senators investigating the claim.

But Alan Foley, head of the Director of Central Intelligence’s Center for Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control, expresses concern about the intelligence.

Foley eventually agrees to a change that appears in the final draft of the speech. According to Bartlett’s later briefing, Tenet does not review the speech, and Rice and Hadley do not recall the October memorandums or a phone call from Tenet while putting together the State of the Union remarks.