Posted on 05/29/2007 3:40:41 PM PDT by lowbridge
An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.
The summary is part of an attachment to Fitzgerald's memorandum to the court supporting his recommendation that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former top aide, spend 2-1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation.
The nature of Plame's CIA employment never came up in Libby's perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
That was classified?
If so, why wasn’t Armitage charged with an actual crime? This is BS
“The nature of Plame’s CIA employment never came up in Libby’s perjury and obstruction of justice trial.”
Yes it did, the judge kept it out show Libby was railroaded.
Known as the CIA’s Who’s Who in America operative.
So she was covert when she illegally disclosed her CIA status to her boyfriend on something like the third date?
Where was the prosecution of Miss Plame for leaking?
“Covert” is CIA-speak for “employed by us”. BFD.
show = it shows that (?)
Notice nobody claimed she ever had a phone on her desk.
If Fitzgerald had a chance to make a leak charge stick he certainly would have filed it.
Also, nobody is jumping on this obvious perjury:
Fact-Checking Valerie Plame Wilson, Pt. 1(Plame lied to Congress-Under Oath)
Well OK then! We now know that Plame was covert and have known that Dick Armitage then Colin Powell were the leakers.....................Hello? hello?......guess nobody’s home at the MSM.
Sounds like jail time for Richard Armitage.
“Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January 2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”
So as a covert CIA officer, her cover was...a CIA employee?
Why is this suddenly relevant when Fitz claimed through the trial it wasn't? Because she couldn't continue in her CIA position? Who's fault is that? Armitage and the CIA officer who confirmed her employment and did not claim she was covert in talking to Novak, that's who. Or 007 Plame herself, who involved herself and her husband in a CIA hit on the Bush administration by running this operation to Niger, having "Ambassador" Joe write his NYT hit piece and sign on as a Kerry adviser. Look in the mirror, babe.
You know, time to face the music for the Libby supporters and the Wilson supporters. Plame WAS covert. That’s why this was such a big deal. Libby, Armitage, etc. weren’t prosecuted for outing her because of national security reasons. Her cover was compromised. The agents who used Brewster-Jennings as cover were compromised - you can read about them on the Internet.
And the idiot/traitor who started it all was Joe Wilson. He knew his wife’s status, and he went out of his way to compromise it for his own glory. Wilson, Libby, Armitage, and all the others - a pox on all of them. They all think their petty little political games are more important than national security.
bull
MSNBC:
“The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, “engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business.” The report says, “she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times.” 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.”
-— end —
Sorry, this is not “covert” under the meaning of the law.
Finally, the Fitzgerald filings shed some new light on Valerie Plame Wilson’s job status at the CIA. In an exhibit attached to the sentencing memo, Fitzgerald reveals that at the time her name was published by columnist Robert Novak — July 14, 2003 — Mrs. Wilson was moving into an administrative position at CIA headquarters. “In August 2003, Ms. Wilson was assigned to a senior personnel position in CPD [Counterproliferation Division], where she supervised staffing, recruiting, and training for CPD,” the document says. “She had been selected for this position prior to the leak.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzlhNDU5MzExNWRjNTU2MWQ5NDZlNzdhMjg2YWYzNTU=
So, let me get this straight, her COVERT status was disclosed in an UNCLASSIFIED document?
MSNBC is just lying. Covert is basically meaningless. If it weren’t, Libby would be awaiting sentencing for that. I hope the President pardons him. He deserves it.
It’s to show the judge during sentencing that Libby was guilty of a crime which wasn’t charged or proven, yet should be used as evidence toward a harsher sentence. Fitz should be tossed out. He is a disgrace, akin to Nifong.
Who told David Corn that Plame was "undercover"?
If that is the case then her husband was the one that outed her.
This is MSNBC. Nobody over there can read. I’ll bet their report is wrong.
How can Libby obstruct an investigation that was finished the day it started?
The leakers admitted their mistake to Fitz on the first day. There was never any mystery on Fitz’ part where the leak came from. The only ones in the dark were “us”, the public. Fitz told Armitage to keep his role in the leak secret until after the “investigation” was complete.
So Fitz was investigating Libby knowing full well he had no part in the leak.
This is an abuse of office.
“Although he claimed in Mr. Libby’s indictment that Ms. Plame’s employment status was “classified,” Mr. Fitzgerald refuses to provide the basis for that fact and, even if true, can point to no law that would be violated by revealing a “classified” (not covert) employment. It was this gap in the law that created the need to pass the act in the first place.” Victoria Toensing, author of the law http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008948
PK- so I got it mixed up - revealing covert is illegal, but Armitage did that before Libby, therefore he is the one who leaked it. The whole thing is a sham, and Fitzie was fooled by the Democrat idiots at the CIA.
Ya' gotta wonder:
Read the title again...."Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak (unclassified document details CIA employment)"
Sounds impressive but apparently the document was never classified...its an 'unclassified document' accepted in lieu of a Fitzmas present by the MSM.
And, you ain't covert when your car is sitting in the lot with an "I'm from the CIA" access sticker on it!
(Wondering if she had an assigned space for "Ms. Plame/Wilson, covert person"?)
Things like this evil persecution of an innocent man remind me why I voted for Bush - Plame and Wilson supported Kerry. Crooks and/or lies all.
If true, then there is a certain far-left website that should be worried considering how hard they worked to get this story in the news.
Nope. What's worse, Fitz knows it.
From this link...
Hubris Responding to David Corn responding to me.
...Whatever she was in the early 1990s, she was not covert within five years of Novak’s 2003 column. “Covert” is a legal term requiring numerous factors, including a foreign assignment at time of publication or within five years. Another factor is that the CIA had to be taking affirmative measures to protect the covert person’s identity. Hardly the situation here where Plame went daily to Langley, and where the CIA press person admitted to Novak she was employed by the agency.
Hope your reputation was woth it, Fitz.
Bullcrap. Plame wasn’t covert just because Patrick Fitzgerald says so
"First, your speechwriter's father, Novak, leaks Plame's name.
Then, we claim it was 'secret' and blame it on Cheney and Libby,
even though everyone who can actually read, will know that Novak
was the first to publish it, thereby setting up Cheney and Libby.
It WILL work because we still have the FBI files."
Utter nonsense. Plame was recalled from her last post as a covert agent in Russia in 1997, on the assumption that her covert status had been compromised by Aldrich Ames. From that point forward, the CIA operated on the assumption that her covert status had been compromised, i.e. that anyone who really mattered knew she was a CIA operative. Her covert career was absolutely over at that point. If any other real covert agents had been using the Brewster-Jennings front, they would have been presumed compromised at the same time (since Plame had already used it at the time she was presumed compromised). The fact that she — a compromised former covert agent — listed herself as an employee of Brewster-Jennings in 1999 in connection with her $1000 donation to Al Gore’s campaign, obviously knowing that such affiliations become a matter of public record, proves that Brewster-Jennings was no longer a cover for any covert agents at that time.
Not every front company the CIA uses is cover for covert agents; many are just for convenience. Truly covert agents are generally planted in REAL companies or government offices (of both US and foreign governments). When CIA-created front companies are used by covert agents, the compromising of one agent would necessitate the immediate dismantling of the company, or at least immediate cessation of its use as any kind of cover.
This so-called classified summary of her employment isn’t even signed or dated. For all we know, the maintenance man could have written it, or Plame herself. Without identifying who actually put the summary together and provided it to Fitzpatrick, leaves questions as to its authenticity and the facts provided therein. During her testimony to Congress, didn’t she mention some supervisor who had stated she was “covert?” I’m thinking that this “summary” might just have been written by that same individual. She lied about her status, and he backed her up. They should have subpoenaed the individual who actually wrote the document, and have him swear to her being a “covert” agent under oath. I’d bet he’d change his tune real quick.
Hogwash. Fitzgerald had already discovered who the leaker was before Libby ever testified. It was not feasible for Libby to interfere with that discovery. Case closed.
It’s BS.
Plame’s husband indicates she leaks intel like a river
on the way to bed, so perhaps the author wasn’t from CIA.
I would argue that the disclosure of the "secret CIA prisons" story was an infinitely more damaging leak to national security, and there wasn't a hint of prosecution on that one. In that light, the Libby prosecution still stinks to high heaven.
Does anybody else feel scared with the way this agency has been run for the past decade or so?
Do you have a source for that, outside of speculation by people who want this to go away?
Yeah, a CIA employee who used her CIA cover company to donate money to Al Gore's campaign.
The "secret prison" story was nothing but manufactured outrage by the MSM. And where did people really think that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being held? He wasn't at Gitmo. Duh.
The most damaging leak was the revelation of the NSA monitoring of al Qaeda phone calls entering the USA. Tons of intel and hundreds of millions of dollars gone.
As far as Libby and Armitage go, they are no better than Wilson. Compromising our intelligence agency for political purposes is disgusting. It astonishes me that so many posters around here are cheerleaders for Libby just because they want to win a political victory.
Source? What planet have you been on? This information has been put out by way too many sources to start listing, including many (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post) that are hardly in the make-excuses-for-the-Bush-administration club. And it’s not like this is specific to Plame. It involved a huge number of covert operatives. Maybe you should look up the 1995 testimony to Congress of then CIA Director John Deutch to refresh your memory.
It’s all bull. You know that right? If Plame was covert, she and her husband sure didn’t act like it. It was all good for laughs at their cocktail parties and it was a great introduction to Joe’s credibility but secret identity? Not even close. Hell! They even go as far as hold meetings with news journalists just so they can bolster their importance.
BUT I do notice however, the people that cry about a desk jockey’s identity been blown like Plames, they couldn’t care less about any other “secrets” being publish in the news. They in fact, more sooner encourage such secrets being published in the newspapers than not.
But lets get to the reality of the whole thing. That “make-excuses-for-the-Bush-administration club” gives me a clue where you stand but I think you stand in a very poor place at that.
When Armitage talked about the Plames to the reporters, it had nothing to do with neither the Bush administration nor their dictating but it was all a joke. I mean that is just what the Plames were/are.
They were talking about then Plames, the trip Joe Wilson took and the sad sad circumstances he went to Niger. Listen to that recording again, read the transcript of it again and you can see the humor from it all. It was also, laughing at the sadist part of all, they were laughing at the CIA and how they handled the whole thing.
It doesn’t make me feel very secure knowing how inept the CIA is and after they get all that funding for doing something as stupid to send a crackpot like Joe Wilson do anything for them.
Maybe the Bush administration was wrong. Maybe they were wrong that once hearing how it all came down and how messed up it all went, sending Joe Wilson on such a mission like that, the Bush Administration should have did an investigation on what the heck is going on at the CIA and who all there is on drugs? They need to ask, what ever the CIA do, why is it always wrong? Why did they even keep Plame in the CIA in the first place. They must know she was nowhere near able to carry out her function in that outfit.
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