[angkor]

She was not a clandestine officer at the time that that article in Vanity Fair appeared.

With a loudmouthed showboater like Joe Wilson as her spouse, it's virtually certain that every reporter and cabbie in DC knew Valerie Phlame was a letter-agency employee.

In addition, the overwhelming majority of letter-agency employees are not clandestine, and in Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia they don't seem shy about telling folks where they work.

[lugsoul]

"With a loudmouthed showboater like Joe Wilson as her spouse, it's virtually certain that every reporter and cabbie in DC knew Valerie Phlame was a letter-agency employee"

Except Robert Novak, Matt Cooper, Judy Miller, and Walter Pincus.