Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>about an agent who hadn't been covert for 5 years<<<


You're not arguing rationally so let's finish this up, ok? I will help.

Both the prosecutor and the judge presiding over the case contradict your opinion about Plame's covert status. Here's one such account but there are hundreds of other links to similar statements.

"But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11179719/site/newsweek/


And this from a retired CIA agent who has this to say about the case and about people like yourself:


"This much is certain:

Valerie Plame was working undercover as a senior CIA operations officer.
Valerie Plame was working on issues related to Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to keep America safe.
Valerie Plame traveled overseas as part of her undercover work and was protected under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
Valerie Plame was betrayed by President Bush and his political appointees.

Anyone who claims Valerie and Joe are the cause of this are goddamn morons and beyond the reach of reason."

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/gee_valerie_was.html


For reasons you haven't explained yet you feel that the CIA, the prosecutor, the judge and the mainstream media are mistaken about Plame's covert status. Time to show your cards ed. The opinions of bloggers are not valid for obvious reasons but transcripts from Libby's defense will be.

Certainly, one of Washington's best defense teams trying to clear Libby's good name wouldn't have gone through the entire trial without pointing out that contrary to the CIA's, the mainstream media's, the prosecution's and the judge's beliefs, Plame was not a covert agent at all at the time of the leak and that part of the story must be corrected for the record. You can start posting your references now.